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    FORGING THE FUTURE

    Dec 22, 2017 6 minutes
    BY WEI KOH

    I kid you not. At 100mph (or 160km/h in the metric system) the GTR version of the McLaren F1 — the 25-year-old game-changing sports car designed by iconoclast Gordon Murray — generates so much downforce that it could drive upside down across your ceiling. It is also incredibly light, due to McLaren’s pioneering use of carbon fiber, and has a race-ready central driving seat and a naturally aspirated BMW V12 nestled in an engine-bay lined with gold foil to help expel heat. All of this enabled the street-legal version to clock 240.1mph (388km/h), the highest speed ever recorded for a production car in the 1990s. A fleet of racing F1s entered the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours and set an incredible record on the car’s debut, with the McLarens claiming 1st, 3, 4, 5 and 13th places.

    So, it takes a hell of a lot to impress Ray Bellm, the racing driver who convinced Gordon Murray and McLaren boss Ron Dennis to create the competition GTR version of the F1. Yet he is

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