The McLaren F1 was launched on this day in 1992. It won Le Mans three years later – the road-going supercar wasn't expected to even finish. Gary Watkins recalls the tale in today's Great Read
The thing may have looked the part, but there was no way it could win the Le Mans 24 Hours. Not first time out anyway. The world's fastest street machine it may have been, but this particular supercar hadn't been conceived — in anyway, shape or form — for the racetrack. And when Gordon Murray's supercar did get tweaked for competition, the French enduro wasn't on the agenda, not at first.
Yet in 1995 the McLaren F1 GTR tore up the form-book to win the world's greatest sports car event.
