McLaren Monday with the special exhibition and two iconic racers ...

On Thursday, Amanda McLaren officially opened the special McLaren exhibition in the fabulous Louwman Museum. The daughter of company founder McLaren and current brand ambassador, Amanda McLaren explained how her fathers's dreams had become reality with the current range of road cars. Among the stars that feature in this special exhibition until August 27th are the McLaren M8F from Louwman's own collection that was driven to the 1971 Can-Am title and the ex-Ayrton Senna World Championship winning McLaren MP4/5B Honda that was loaned to the museum by a Dutch enthusiast.
McLarens are also always a set fixture at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and this year was no exception. We were particularly taken by this McLaren F1 GTR. It was one of two cars raced in Gulf colours during the 1995 season and it had boasted this iconic livery for most of its life. The one exception was at the 1995 Suzuka 1000 km where it scored an outright win in the Ueno Clinic livery that had famously also been used by that year's Le Mans winning car. For this year's 25th anniversary celebrations of the F1, the car's current owner had decided to re-finish 02R in the unique colours used for just a single outing. The Festival of Speed was the first time the car was seen in these colours at a major event since 1995.
From McLaren's own stable came this M8D Chevrolet, which was driven by two of the company's young drivers. The M8D always provokes mixed feelings as Bruce McLaren had his fatal accident while testing one in June of 1970 but just a few months later Denny Hulme used the featured example to claim the fourth of McLaren's five Can-Am trophies.

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