I've been given the opportunity to travel and watch a private test of a historic McLaren tomorrow- needless to say that I'm fairly excited! In my little corner of Australia we don't see a lot of F1 machinery. Saying this the particular gentleman that owns this car has a wide variety of previously raced cars including the fastest chassis down the mulsanne straight at Le Mans (Sauber C9, chassis 5). I don't have a lot of details of what chassis the McLaren is (apart from being told it is circa 1960/70's), but of course I will find out and return with photos.
This leads me to ask; what is the best historic F1 car you've seen running? I'm sure a few of the UK forumers have been to historic events such as Goodwood so I'm interested in hearing what you've seen!
I do agree we see little historic cars Down Under,
however, at this years Aussie Grand Prix, I did see the Alan Jones Williams FW07? Anyone the car he won the title with on track, well one of the chassis anyway. Im not sure if the owner is based in Australia or he just got them for the weekend. Also, it was a similar case to the Ferrari F185? One of the chassis used by Alboreto in 1985.
Im bad at uploading pics here, but If I can find em ill post em here if I can.
Miserable Thierry (Boutsen) staggers round mostly on ten cylinders (out of 12) with no clutch, low oil pressure, bad brakes and no grip to finish tenth, 3 laps down...
(Murray Walkers review of Boutsen's Brazil 1991 race).
