A trip to London in a McLaren F1 GTR

Teamspeed.com member GFWilliams shares with us an epic adventure navigating a McLaren F1 GTR through the streets of London on route to the launch of the new Forza Motorsport 4.

“This was certainly not your average day in the office. A few weeks Andy, the owner of the McLaren F1 GTR, mentioned on my facebook that he was going up to London in his F1 for the launch of the new Forza Motorsport 4 game. I immediately text him to try my luck and see if he had a spare seat so I could come up to take photos. He came back to me saying I could come and we organised that I would meet him then we’d drive up with the Enzo to the start point.

What was it like on a fairly open road then? Well, it was loud. Remember that the car has a straight cut gearbox which means that the car sounds like it’s reversing the whole time. When it goes though, it is incredibly direct and even as a passenger you can feel everything. The throttle is clearly instantaneous. The car is so sharp and darts about a bit over the bumps, surprisingly though for a racing car it’s not grounding out too much.

We got into the traffic pretty quickly and as the car doesn’t have air conditioning that meant that the car got rather hot. So whenever I could I was opening the door to try to cool the car down.

So here we go, this is what a McLaren F1 GTR looks like from the passenger seat. You’ll see Andy to my right in the drivers seat and you’ll probably also notice he’s wearing a headset, that’s ecause the car is so loud that you can’t talk to each other otherwise!”

Follow through for the epic adventure shared through a collection of amazing images!