"My mind is blown. My soul corrupted. Absolute power has cast its spell. Solo or ménage a trois, I don’t mind. Put me back in the middle, behind the central wheel of the world’s fastest driving machine. I need more, another fix. Two days on the loose in McLaren’s three-seater megacar, and I’m hooked"
Poignant words. Written by my father, motoring journalist Roger Bell for Car magazine in 1994. His prose then repeated by my youngest son Jake as the opening words to his tribute at his Grandfather's funeral.
I was invited to accompany my father in Wales for road test, but, at the time my then employers refused to grant me the time off. Had I realised then just how the F1 was to rewrite everything known about Supercar's, or Megacar's as my father named the F1, I'd have developed a terrible fever for a few days.
Thankfully, Car's Archive let's you read the full article on model designation XP5, K8MCL, and the first test by anyone outside McLaren bar a few prospective customers.
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