Driving Ambition: The Official Inside Story Of The Mclaren F1 New
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Driving Ambition: The Official Inside Story of the McLaren F1 By Doug Nye with Ron Dennis and Gordon Murray Published by Virgin Books, 1999. Includes double-sided poster, measuring approx. 865mm x 580mm Hardback. Dust cover has wear and scratches; with creasing, damage, and tears around the edges. Covers have shelf wear at the edges with heavier wear at the corners. Pages are in good condition with many full-colour photos and illustrations. "The McLaren F1 is considered by many to be, quite simply, the ultimate car. A road car as close to the performance and technology of a Formula One car as modern science and engineering can make it. Developed with the complete co-operation and involvement of McLaren Cars, DRIVING AMBITION is the definitive history of this, and for once the superlatives are justified, most extraordinary car. The F1 was conceived in 1988, when four men sat in an Italian airport, waiting for a delayed flight. By the end of this impromptu meeting, the four - McLaren proprietors Ron Dennis and Mansour Ojjeh, with director Creighton Brown and renowned racing car designer Gordon Murray - had made a bold and uncompromising decision. McLaren, already a dominant force in Grand Prix racing, would build the finest road car in the world. Within four years they had succeeded, creating the McLaren F1 - a million dollar car in every sense. Unveiled in 1992, the first of the limited edition of 100 cars was delivered in 1994, the last completed in June 1998. The F1 team, led by Gordon Murray, applied the same level of attention to detail that McLaren's Grand Prix team was already famed for. There was no compromise: every element of the road car was re-thought. The throttle pedal alone was hand-crafted from six separate pieces of titanium. And the results were spectacular. In March 1998 the F1 shattered the official world speed record for a road car - reaching 240.01mph. The GTR racing version, on its debut at Le Mans in 1995, promptly won the race taking four of the top five placings. DRIVING AMBITION is the story of a pursuit of excellence, with all the twists and turns that occurred along the way. This is not a sanitised corporate hagiography, but a human story of anecdotes and humour, written, designed and photographed by the same team who produced the original, award-winning, hardback catalogue sent out to every prospective F1 owner. DRIVING AMBITION captures the spirit and the story of the McLaren F1 - a book for anyone who has ever understood the vision, the passion and the power of beautiful, fast cars."
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