Re: McLaren Video

["Steven Reed" <bimmersteven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you referring to the comment about the speed or about the car itself?  I 
think they're both good contenders for Understatement of the Millennium.

Steve
'87 325iS


>From: "Steve D'Gerolamo" <steved3@domain.elided>
>To: 911/993/996 digest <911@domain.elided>, bmw@domain.elided
>Subject: McLaren Video
>Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 10:19:41 -0500
>
>For those fans of Rendezvous and other in-car video's, check out this
>download at http://www.mclarencars.com/V1/images/gallery/TwF.htm .   Only
>problem is the size of the viewer (I'd love to buy a copy of the actual
>video). The McLaren has to be the finest road car ever produced.  Some
>background on the video, courtesy of Mike Sharpe:
>
>"With regards to the video itself, the driver is Andy Wallace, and the 
>record
>was set on a 'circuit' owned by VW, which, as far as I can remember (I'll
>dig up the magazine article if anyone is interested), is basically a Very
>Long stretch of unused autobahn, followed by a big banked right hand 
>corner,
>then back the other direction. I believe McLaren decided they needed to 
>take
>the world speed record for production cars once and for all - I seem to
>recall that Bugatti may have beaten McLaren's old official top speed, but
>they were fairly confident of regaining the title - Jonathon Palmer did
>340kmh at the Nardo bowl in Italy, in a prototype car known to be down on
>power, and on a very hot day into the bargain.
>Anyone who downloads the video, listen to what the driver says at the end 
>of
>the run. Since everybody and their grandmother are nominating their best
>xxxxx of the millennium, his comment is my choice for 'Understatement of 
>the
>millennium' ..."   SD
>
>
>
>
>SD
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