“Look, please don’t come back to me later to tell me you also want it to be a racing car, because I’m fighting against all my background experience and instincts here to make it a true, pure road car… and that will compromise it for ever as a racer.” Gordon Murray’s thoughts on taking his new supercar, the McLaren F1, onto the racetrack. Just over three years after its launch in May 1992 in Monaco, on debut, McLaren F1 GTRs finished 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 13th at the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours