These Pics Of McLaren's New US F1 Service Centre Are Jaw Dropping
If you’re a McLaren F1 owner in North America, life just got a whole lot easier. Previously, examples of the Gordon Murray-designed supercar would have to be shipped back to the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, UK for maintenance, but that’s no longer the case thanks to the all-new North American McLaren F1 Service Center.
It’s operated by McLaren Philadelphia, but has been built “at a remote site in Pennsylvania, set up to ensure customer discretion and privacy.” There are more F1s out there than you might think, too: despite McLaren never officially importing the car to the US, over 20 currently reside in North America - around 20 per cent of all F1s ever built.
The new facility has a set of the original F1 service tools, and yes, that includes one of the early 90s-spec laptops required to communicate with the car using ancient DOS-based software.
We strongly recommend you take a look through some more pictures of the place. How good does a McLaren F1 look partially disassembled?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Well, it’s not like if F1s were being used at all…
Is that a F1 LM on the last picture? If so, I’d be really surprised the owner would actually use it and not let it rot in a climate-controlled garage.
Just to point this out, but Matt, you spaced “percent”. Is that a small error or a confusing rule?
That Compaq laptop brings me back some 15 years ago…:)
Love those computers!!
Is that a p1 in the background
Alright that’s it. I’m assembling a crew. Who’s up for a heist danny ocean would be jealous of?
Holy sh*t, I misread the title as “Pics of McLaren’s New SUV…” - luckily I noticed it, otherwise I would now be shaking my head asking myself in what a freakin world we live in where sports car makers build 2.5 tonnes SUVs…
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DOS-based? Oh god. They have all that cash and can’t hire to create a simple software tool.
As a programmer, this is bad. Now I understand why all these modern cars can be easily hacked.
“What in de hail”