McLaren goes with the flow
/You thought McLarens were slinky simply to be sheikh chic?
‘Conversations online with the minds behind our pioneering technologies.’.
That all sounds a bit pretentious and utterly boring, right?
It could well be were the subject matter, say, window blinds or whiteware.
But it’s not. The subject is the Kiwi-founded, based-Britain hero brand that these days brings its astounding motorsport pedigree to the road.
Specifically, it’s the McLaren Tech Club, whose remit is to explain and explore the technologies featured in McLaren road cars. With videos in which the interviews with McLaren experts is abetted by footage of great cars doing their thing.
Here are episodes one and two, respectively dealing with aerodynamic magic and how air and wind affect a car’s design. The first centres on the open-top Elva concept and the second uses as its muse another wee special, the Senna GTR.
With the latter, principal Designer Esteban Palazzo explains how the latter followed the F1 GTR and P1 GTR in adopting a multi-tiered, multi-layered, carbon fibre pedestal wing.
Palazzo says it was not only inspired by high-performance cars of the past and aircraft design, but also by the likes and tastes of the intended customers.
So as much for show as go? Well, that might be so, but it is effective. Additional to episode two McLaren has released three videos of the Senna GTR testing on the Bahrain International Circuit, where the car holds the fastest race lap in the circuit's current configurations.
Any, you’ve lots of time to spare, so here are all five videos. Don’t forget to turn the track footage up loud.
