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There are hacks around it, even using multimeters to try to understand what’s going on, but it’s time-consuming and can throw up occasionally unexpected problems.”

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From 1993 onwards is better for him, but before that, he doesn’t have any sight of the Honda code for the engine. Julian Coates is a systems engineer specialist and the man responsible for that most thankless of tasks: getting old computers to work. We’re quite capable of running these with the help of Mercedes, but for anything current, I don’t think you’re going to be seeing those running other than with the team itself.” Lall says: “It takes a small army to run them. You can’t expect to see any of the modern hybrid-era cars in here any time soon, though, simply because of the complexity of the engine. So it’s a big, big project for us,” says Lall. “It has been exchanged many times and, depending on the level and competence of the person who has owned it, it’s quite shocking to see how poor it is.

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Lall points to Rutherford’s 1974 Indy car, which has been through various owners before ending up back at McLaren for a full restoration. And that’s where money is to be made, not only in the initial sale but also in the ongoing upkeep and running.Įach presents its own challenges.

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Series One and Series Two cars are not for sale, but other, less victorious cars are available. Now that things are more settled at the top of McLaren after Dennis’s tumultuous departure, it seems that McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has identified a commercial opportunity. Those customer cars are the key for the future. We have Series One and Series Two cars, the prime cars, but of late, with the idea of refurbishing and selling to private customers, it has started off as a new venture altogether.” But then it also got to a stage where there were a lot of cars here. But obviously it takes energy and it costs money to run it, so at various stages it was deemed that maybe we will stop it now. Lall explains: “In different guises, it has existed for some time. Clearly, though, the Ron Dennis era brought a greater sense of brand heritage. No thought was given to any legacy: a car was designed to go racing, and as soon as it couldn’t do that, it was merely the automotive equivalent of a large cash deposit. It’s surprising to learn how unplanned the genesis of all this was, because back in the day, the previous season’s car was sold off to pay for the next season. It’s not stretching things to describe it thus, as quite a few of the cars on display are customer cars back for a fettle before they go off testing. Welcome to McLaren Heritage, possibly the most rarefied car-service centre in the world. Mechanics are wandering around, oblivious to Autocar circulating, as they try to get to grips with the pinnacle of F1 technology. Wheel guns are left casually on the floor by various boxes of parts, with the legendary coding ‘MP4/4’ writ large across the plastic crates. There’s even a 1974 Indy car tub on the polished floor (from Johnny Rutherford’s Indianapolis 500 winner no less), which illustrates how enormous F1 cars have become.

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