But, Porsche's 911 GT1 rendered the F1 GTR uncompetitive, so McLaren created new, longer bodywork and made a bunch of changes to try and keep pace. The car we see here is a Gulf-livered 1997 ...

Of course competitive minds prevailed, and the rest is history: the resulting McLaren F1 GTR not only win in its own GT1 class, but beat out more advanced Le Mans prototypes to positively dominate ...

Mansour Ojjeh is one of them, but he doesn't just own a McLaren – he owns McLaren ... and engineered Porsche's most successful foray into Formula One – winning the world drivers' championship ...

Unlike the McLaren F1, we’re rather less keen on the latest Boxster – with the new entry-level 2-litre turbocharged engine and PDK, it’s the least impressive Porsche we’ve driven in years.

The culmination of that process was the F1 GTR Long Tail, which competed in GT1 sports car ... to fight Ferrari, Porsche, Toyota, Aston Martin, Genesis and many more McLaren-Honda MP4/5B: Anatomy ...