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Ultra-Detailed F1 Scale Models by Andy Mathews for Sale

Posted by Alex Bale Sunday, March 3, 2013

If you're into cars, you've most likely had your passion from a very early age, and you can always relate it to one car – the one which sparked it. Following the joyous event, you ask your parents to get you a scale model, and the snowball effect begins from there on.

F1 Cars

F1 Cars

F1 Cars

F1 Cars

F1 Cars

However, there are some models so exquisite and expensive that you would never let your children even get near them.

If you haven't heard of Andy Mathews, you should do some research – he makes some of the best and most detailed automotive scale models in the world. However, instead of doing a wide assortment of different types of vehicles, Mathews is keen on making extremely detailed Formula 1 cars.

Furthermore, he doesn't just use photos from the internet for reference – he actually goes to see the real thing multiple times, before completing the model. Each car “incorporates several thousand largely handmade, authentically finished, microscopic metal parts”, he says on his website adding that it can take up to three years to complete.

If you are willing to pay as much as $20,000 for each of these pieces of microscopic craftsmanship, there are a few for sale here. Furthermore, if you want to know more about Mathews and his work, you can always visit his official site, as well.

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News: McLaren's P1 supercar upstages its new F1 racer

Posted by Alex Bale Thursday, January 31, 2013

We are, let's face it, absolutely nuts about Formula One here at Motors-IRL Towers, so the unveiling today of McLaren's 2013 challenger, the MP4-28, was getting us up to boiling point pretty easily. But then, just as the presentation was getting going, all thoughts of F1 and the new racer went, pfffft, out of our brains as Jenson Button pulled up in the stunning new P1 supercar.

There are not many car makers whose new road car could so successfully upstage an F1 car launch, let alone when they're from the same brand, but the P1 managed it.

McLaren's new driver, Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez (who replaces Lewis Hamilton following his departure for Mercedes) arrived at the event in a 12C Spider finished in heritage McLaren Orange, while Jenson followed closely behind in a camouflaged XP prototype version of the P1. These two models brought proceedings fully up-to-date as they joined a spectacular grid of racing cars showcasing the brand’s history, and kicked off a year of 50th anniversary celebrations.

The parade brought to life a string of race- and championship-winning McLarens from across the decades, including 1970s M8D CanAm sportscar, Emerson Fittipaldi’s iconic 1974 M23, Ayrton Senna’s dominant 1988 MP4/4, our 1995 Le Mans-winning F1 GTR, Mika Hakkinen’s MP4-13 car from 1998, and the most recent championship winning car to wear the McLaren badge, the MP4-23 from 2008.

News: McLaren's P1 supercar hits the test track

Posted by Alex Bale Sunday, January 27, 2013

It was almost exactly 20 years ago that we car enthusiasts were getting all girlishly excited about the prospect of McLaren's first ever road car, the original F1. That went on to be the fastest car in the world, and to win Le Mans at its first attempt. So just imagine how excited we are at the prospect of this, the P1, McLaren's successor to the F1...

Just 500 of this amazing looking car will be built, and while its engine is structurally similar to the 3.8-litre V8 turbo that's in the existing MP4-12-C supercar, not only will the P1 get a power boost, it will also get a hybrid KERS setup that will boost power again for overtaking bursts. Quite what you'd need an overtaking burst to get past in one of these remains unexplained. A Veyron perhaps?

Anyway, expect power to be at least 750-800bhp, and with all the active aerodynamics and computer controlled suspension that you'd expect from McLaren. And judging from the still-camouflaged styling (why, when they showed the car un-disguised at the Paris Motor Show last year?) it will look remarkably like being violated by a Le Mans racer when it does overtake you, boost or no boost.

Enjoy the photos and check out the video too. It spits fire...






News: McLaren gearing up for 50th birthday celebrations

Posted by Alex Bale Tuesday, January 22, 2013

“Life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.”

When a 27-year-old Bruce McLaren penned those words in 1964, his new company, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd, was less than a year old.

In those days, Bruce’s vision was shared by fewer than half a dozen loyal souls, who slogged across the world to race his self-made cars. Nowadays, the McLaren Group employs more than 2000 people, all of whom still share Bruce’s ideals of combining sportsmanship with solid engineering practice and cutting-edge technical expertise.
On September 2nd 2013, the McLaren Group will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

If you were to follow Bruce’s words to the letter, there’d be little time for recollection, but on the eve of McLaren's half-century there’s surely time for the briefest of breaths and the opportunity to take a look behind at the sweeping vista built up in the indelible shadow of its founder.

The McLaren Formula 1 team has become a global household name; since its arrival in
the sport, at the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix, it has won more races (182) than any other
constructor, started from pole position 155 times and scored 151 fastest laps. In 2012,
McLaren achieved the fastest-ever time for a Formula 1 pitstop (2.31s at Hockenheim),
recorded its 58th consecutive points-scoring finish, an all-time record, and has now led
more than 10,000 racing laps.

McLaren went to the Indy 500 for the first time in 1970, returning with greater strength until
we won the USA’s most famous motor race in 1974 with Johnny Rutherford, and repeated
the feat with Rutherford in 1976, too.

Today, every single car in Formula 1, the Indycar Series and NASCAR relies upon
McLaren Electronics’ standardised ECUs to control their engines and feed data back to the
garage.

Introduced back in 1993, the McLaren F1 road car has lost none of its unique appeal and
is still considered by many to be automotive world’s definitive supercar. To this day, it
remains the fastest naturally aspirated production car in the world. In GTR racing guise, it
won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, also scooping third, fourth and fifth places on its debut in
1995.

Since its launch in 2010, McLaren Automotive has developed into a world-class road car
manufacturer, successfully developing and building the 12C and the 12C Spider high
performance sports cars. Both models exploit an unparalleled understanding of carbon
fibre and electronic driver systems to create a groundbreaking product of unequalled
weight, strength, performance and driveability.

It’s all a long way from that small south London lock-up back in 1963. But Bruce wouldn’t wish to merely look backwards without looking forwards, too.

Accordingly, echoes of the past will reverberate throughout a series of unique events and celebrations to be held across the anniversary year.

From the McLaren 50 logos on team shirts, through a specially commissioned heritage video features, to the launch of our new MP4-28 Formula 1 car with Jenson Button and Sergio Perez on January 31st, every lap, every corner, every mile and every road taken will be an opportunity to revel in McLaren’s present while recalling its 50-year past.

Ron Dennis CBE, executive chairman, McLaren Group and McLaren Automotive, said: “McLaren’s history is long and storied, but McLaren’s legacy is harder to define – and that’s because it’s still being vividly written every day by the dedicated men and women who work at the McLaren Technology Centre.

“Bruce McLaren wrote the beginning of the story, and the legend is going to continue for many years to come. I’m only a chapter, not the book, and I want other people to come in and write their own chapters as time goes by.”

“This is a book that’s still being written, and that, perhaps, is the greatest legacy of McLaren.”

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