McLaren F1 specs

video one of three, there are test line-ups that are worse ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqANh0vraU

McLaren F1 is one of the best cars of all time and one of my personal favorites. But still, justice requires putting everything in its place.
There is too much incorrect data on this page that gives an erroneous impression about the capabilities of this car.
Therefore, some points need to be corrected:

1) Top speed.
McLaren F1 speed records-371 km / h Autocar, 386 km / h in Ehra-Lessien, 372 km / h in Nardo, etc., all set by prototypes - XP-3, XP-5 etc. The standard stock McLaren F1 hit 7500 rpm rev limiter at about 360 km/h (which was still a record for the time).

2) Lap time at the Estoril track.
It looks very impressive considering that there were 3 people in the car, and laptime is in the same league with C6 ZR-1 and GT-R. But in fact, the track underwent significant changes in 1999 and these times are not comparable.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/69432036@N04/sets/72157632497173608/

https://www.racingcircuits.info/europe/portugal/estoril.html

I looked at the laptimes of DTM cars in these configurations, and they differ by about 6-7%. Therefore, we can assume that in a modern configuration, F1 lap time would be approximately on par with the Civic Type R FK2, which in general is also quite impressive for a 1994 car with two passengers on board.

3) Lap time at the Bedford track.
The tested car, which showed a faster time than Enzo, was not a stock car. It had Flemke modified suspension and brakes, custom made BBS wheels, and wider tires Bridgestone Potenza RE050A 245/35ZR19 & 345/35ZR19.

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/gt3-gt2/49432-mclaren-f1-sale-10.html#post607836
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http://performanceforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-67211842.html

To have all detail you need to read pistonheads topic

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=226&t=226933&mid=0&i=0&nmt=Flemke+%2D+Is+this+your+McLaren%3F&mid=0

At the laptime page, we need to make an appropriate note.

4) Estimated lap times.
I don’t know how these figures were obtained, by some sort of calculation or by simulation in the Assetto Corsa, but 7: 18 on the Nordschleife and other laptimes in my opinion look very difficult to achieve for a car with brakes and tire technology of 1994. Perhaps F1 LM could make it, but for a standart F1, the numbers are unrealistic.

I hope this message will not go unnoticed.

If someone understand japan, please look at this test. Is it stock F1?

Gordon Murray was the genius behind the F1 and he's doing a successor, the T50!

These acceleration times should be fake, a car from '93 can't be that fast! :O

0-300 in 22 sec is still too fast today, is awesome, real race engine for the street.

F1 has incredible acceleration because it weighs only 1150 kg and has a power of 620 hp or 545 hp / t. The modern Porsche 918 has a power ratio of 520 hp / t. F1 is a very light supercar with a powerful engine, all modern supercars weigh more than 1600 kg

Looking back to this page, I don't think the F1 that did 10.8 was stock. Maybe it had a tune. 0-300kph in 20sec is ridiculous for anything less than 700 hp with a 0.32*19.2 drag area

Nice so its fastest quarter mile time is 10.8s it even beats Enzo and Carrera GT in that test.

This supercar is such an incredible machine. Easily one of the greatest true supercar ever made. Still one of the best looking supercar. V12 N/A with that level of performance in the 90's. Mind-boggling.

Simple gear shift would explain

100-200 km/h and 200-300 km/h times are absolutely astounding even nowadays. But 180-200 km/h = 1,5s and 200-220 km/h = 1,3s ? Maybe gearing ?

Imagine how fast it was in its day.

3,2 s is 0-60 mph not 0-100 km/h.
0-100 km/h is 3,4 s
http://www.einszweidrei.de/ezdold/index.html
0-120 km/h: 4,3 s
0-140: 5,1 s
0-180: 7,3 s
0-200: 8,8 s
0-220: 10,1 s
0-240: 12,2 s
0-260: 14,1 s
0-280: 16,9 s
0-300: 20,3 s
1/4 mile:10,8 s
1000 m: 19 s
http://www.germancarforum.com/attachments/image-jpg.375962/

Still faster than a Lamborghini Aventador...

0-100 km/h: 3.7 s
0-200 km/h: 8.8 s
0-300 km/h: 20.3 s

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motoring/news/article.cfm?c_id=9&objectid=11760145

I find this funny. I wonder who decided how much $$ would be too much to pay photographer for not releasing pictures of crashed F1... How do you calculate something like that... I guess they don't want the bad imagine for the brand, but it's not like other supercars don't crash or that there aren't plenty of pictures with crashed McLaren's, Ferraris etc around anyway.

WOW!Braking from 160 to 0 takes only 162 ft,that would put it only 11ft more than Enzo's braking which is the only thing superior it has to F1(not including steering).And as for handling auto car also praised it by saying it has phenomenal handling.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/mclaren/f1-1992-1998/ride

Even R&T praised its handling by saying it achieves cornering speeds greater than any road car and drives like a car on slick in 2002 issue of F1 vs F40 vs 959.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/first-drives/reviews/a5339/performance-tests-first-drives-flashback-1994-mclaren-f1/

But I am full aware that handling and not to mention brakes and tires have come a long way since then so F1 can't cope up with modern cars.

As for F1 being faster than CGT,Rowan Atkinson said it in 2004 issue of Evo,Martin Brundle said F1 was the best in his 2002 car test.I still find it amazing that it is still considered a good benchmark.Its Millbrook and MIRA record still remains unbroken.

Its Estoril lap is even now one of the fastest just surpassed by 991 GT3,GTR 550PS and 991 Turbo S.The cars it lapped faster than includes ZR1,458 Italia,SLS AMG and 991 Carrera 4S.

If you want a comparison, heres a 175hp 2009 road legal caterham setting a time of 1:53.4

And a guy who sets a time of 1:56.25 from a honda s2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrZrr8Qskjk

Actually R300 laptime was set on slicks on R300 Championship.Their laptimes are comparable to a 458 Italia.
http://uk.caterhamcars.com/sites/default/files/content/lap_records_-_2016_2.pdf

As for S2000 lap time,I highly doubt it is stock and streetlegal as at braking stock S2000 will not pull 2g's.And no roadcar has broken 1:50 barrier according to autofoco magazine.Besides S2000 is slower than Civic Type r which again only did 2:04.

That would put it just under 1g of braking.

in comparison.. a Ferrari F12
30-0mph 7.4m
50-0mph 19.6m
70-0mph 37.4m

so nowadays on the track, there would be some corners where modern supercars could brake some 50+ meters later.

Mclaren F1 braking distances
30-0mph 9.7m
50-0mph 25.2m
70-0mph 49.5m
138-0mph 189m
Reference Autocar
Scan link found from wikipedia
https://web.archive.org/web/20071114030711/http://www.mclarenautomotive.com/news/Autocar_December_F1.pdf

I just wished that F1 had more laps at tsukuba like other supercars rather than 1 lap,I hope that it improves by at least 1s.Its estoril laptime is very impressive only 2s slower than 991 gt3 on a technical track.

But the thing I hate about F1 is that it had soft suspension and too many body rolls through corners.Not having an anti roll bar at rear is fine because Jonathan Palmer said that it would make the handling unpredictable but still,I wanted it to be a track car rather than road car.

276*
The F1 was always fast in a straight line. Above 150mph, it accelerated faster than F1 cars. It had very very little weight. Built at the time where there were no crash regulations to meet, airbags, heavy dual clutches. And importantly, the curb weight, was the curb weight. So that's huge power to weight. Bonus is that this car is low and has practically no aero drag. And it'll always be a legend because it'll always hold the world record for top speed in a N/A car, a car that won Le Mans, and the only supercar to seat 3 people.

These numbers are incredible. Are they real ?

1/4 mile in 11s and 1km in 19,5s at 279 km/h ? Mind blowing results for a car that does not have advanced traction control, launch control and DCT.

WHAT a CAR ? Mclaren F1 will always be one of the most staggering supercars EVER created.

Found faster drag time for Mclaren F1
1/4mile 11.045s
1km 19.548s
Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wzqVQ1RULs

if mclaren admitted that it would be beaten by mp4-12c then show me the link.
autocar said f1 is better than mp4-12c,tiff needle said it,evo said it,only bad review i heard is by tg.
on very ,tight track it might be true but on long track i doubt it.
they may have said that it is as fast as f1(at professionals hand ofcourse) like ferrari did with 430 scedura

The only thing Mclaren admitted about F1 lap times is that it would be beaten by the 12C at every race track in the world.

And yes. Certainly.

How quick is the 12C around the ring?

Please delete the 0-100 kph time; that's for the 0-60 mph time.

this is comparision of f1 to f1 xp5
test f1 vs xp5 vs ameritech
0-100mph 6.3 vs 6s vs 7.7s
skidpad n/a vs 1.2(claim) vs0.86g
0-200kph 9.4s vs 7.6s vs 10.5+s
1/4 mile 11.1vs10.2s(est)vs11.6s
topspeed 231-240mph vs 243vs217mph
now concerning 7:11 lap time,if you are speaking of ameritech, standard f1, it can do it in about 7:30 at best,but xp5 can do much better than that it even requires 2010 upgrade package by mclaren for standard f1 to perform as good as xp5.
THE 20.832KM LAP TIMES ARE ABOUT 7S SLOWER THAN 20.6KM LAPS AS STATED BY NURBURGRING SITE

Whatever.....