Murray is genius I remember in one of interviews when he was still in Wiliams Renault, at question: If you have to design car hovering 10 cm above the ground for F1, would you do it ?
His anwser: How much time for design are we talking about ....
It was in 80's .... after his anwser i made "poker face"
No, they used the Chevy motors because Murry needed something that would emulate the torque of the big V12, and big block chevy motors do a good job of making torque, and are cheap and plentiful.
Only the first F1 test mule featured the American V8. The car was based on an altered Ultima GTR chassis and was named "Albert". The second F1 mule, "Edward", was based on another heavily revised Ultima chassis, and was fitted with the first BMW V12 engine that had been designed for McLaren.
After that they would build the very first real McLaren F1 chassis, called XP1, and then 4 more XPs before production started at the end of 1993.
You can read about the two mules on Ultima's website.
That may very well be the greatest car ever made!
vfIskullangel 9 months ago
This is it, thank you so much for uploading this!
samiaalt 2 years ago
great upload
logwind 2 years ago
They used a Chevy V8 in an Ultima chassis as the test mule.
The359 2 years ago
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Peloton25 2 years ago
nice , thanxx for the upload
rx8super 2 years ago
Thank you very much for the great upload, have been looking for this for years!
boike13 2 years ago
At first, Gordan Murray wanted Honda to eningeer a V12 for the McLaren.
VWA2MKII 2 years ago
They even approached Isuzu for the motor but thankfully settled on BMW.
motoyen 2 years ago
Didn't he also (briefly) consider a Chevrolet big block V8? Or was that just on some test mules?
samjezard 2 years ago
That may have only been on the test cars as Murray always said he wanted a V12.
motoyen 2 years ago
@motoyen
Murray is genius I remember in one of interviews when he was still in Wiliams Renault, at question: If you have to design car hovering 10 cm above the ground for F1, would you do it ?
His anwser: How much time for design are we talking about ....
It was in 80's .... after his anwser i made "poker face"
adakar83 1 year ago
No, they used the Chevy motors because Murry needed something that would emulate the torque of the big V12, and big block chevy motors do a good job of making torque, and are cheap and plentiful.
seroyer2 2 years ago
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Only the first F1 test mule featured the American V8. The car was based on an altered Ultima GTR chassis and was named "Albert". The second F1 mule, "Edward", was based on another heavily revised Ultima chassis, and was fitted with the first BMW V12 engine that had been designed for McLaren.
After that they would build the very first real McLaren F1 chassis, called XP1, and then 4 more XPs before production started at the end of 1993.
You can read about the two mules on Ultima's website.
Peloton25 2 years ago
@samjezard They've fitted a test car with that big V8 to see if the gearbox and other elements could cope with the high torque the V12 would develop.
silverblackss 1 year ago
@samjezard They did. Mclaren even had a small block for their M8 roadcar back in the 1970's which never went into full production.
vfIskullangel 9 months ago