The Official McLaren F1 Thread
#712
08-05-2011, 11:33 AM
Eric the Bruni car that was wrecked, any idea if it was rebuilt? Is it and the prototype that crashed in africa the only f1's that were total writ offs?
#713
08-05-2011, 12:13 PM
-The prototype
-The Crashtest one
-One in the Middle-east
and two others
#714
08-05-2011, 12:37 PM
I have 6 cars written off completely.
XP1 - first prototype, crashed and burned in the Namibian desert during development testing
XP2 - MIRA crash test car, later crushed
#004 or #005 - crashed by a mechanic in Brunei, salvaged for parts only according to sources
#010 - crashed by Bernd Pischetsrieder, then President of BMW and "written off"
#017 - crashed by Christopher Dawes on a rain slicked road in Essex. He and his two passengers perished in the ensuing fire
#033 - crashed by its German owner on the Autobahn. He chose not to have McLaren repair the car and instead ordered a new one.
= = = = =
Jason - here's a picture of Rowan's F1 after the first crash. It looks a lot worse than it was because the nose of the F1 ended up underneath the rear of the car he hit. Mostly this was just bodywork that needed to be replaced - nothing major.
>8^)
ER
XP1 - first prototype, crashed and burned in the Namibian desert during development testing
XP2 - MIRA crash test car, later crushed
#004 or #005 - crashed by a mechanic in Brunei, salvaged for parts only according to sources
#010 - crashed by Bernd Pischetsrieder, then President of BMW and "written off"
#017 - crashed by Christopher Dawes on a rain slicked road in Essex. He and his two passengers perished in the ensuing fire
#033 - crashed by its German owner on the Autobahn. He chose not to have McLaren repair the car and instead ordered a new one.
= = = = =
Jason - here's a picture of Rowan's F1 after the first crash. It looks a lot worse than it was because the nose of the F1 ended up underneath the rear of the car he hit. Mostly this was just bodywork that needed to be replaced - nothing major.
>8^)
ER
