F1 Truth about McLaren's F1 by the man who created it

Sunny · Oct 17, 2014

Another little way, why it is still so special.

Rolf · Oct 17, 2014

Kowalski said:
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Thanks for this great video @Kowalski really love the way Tiff Needel drives the F1 and then gives his normal enthusiastic description of the cars handling and performance. This car is a masterpiece for sure it is one of THE greatest sports cars ever! Love the F1 to bits, if only I was a multilple millionaire and I would be driving one of these babies for sure! Fantastic! Marvelous!

klier · Apr 29, 2016

This is the computer McLaren uses until this very day to read the computer of the McLaren F1.

The F1 was one of the first cars that used a computer to drive the engine, and this DOS running Compaq LTE 5280 is the only machine capable of reading the systems, as they have not made a tool for current hardware. True story.

Another funny F1 related story is the one from a dude who brought his F1 to McLaren for maintenance. And when they were reading the systems, it said that the car was driving 300 km/h every single day. They assumed it to be a glitch of the system, but when the man came back to collect his car, the good old people of McLaren found out that he actually drove 300km/h every day, on the Autobahn on his way to work. Wow.

Monster · Apr 29, 2016

klier said:
Another funny F1 related story is the one from a dude who brought his F1 to McLaren for maintenance. And when they were reading the systems, it said that the car was driving 300 km/h every single day. They assumed it to be a glitch of the system, but when the man came back to collect his car, the good old people of McLaren found out that he actually drove 300km/h every day, on the Autobahn on his way to work. Wow.

I think that dude is Dr. Thomas Bscher, the guy VW brought in to rescue the Veyron project.