McLaren Is Milking Its Le Mans History Again. But We're Here for It
Thirty years ago, McLaren won Le Mans on its debut, with JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas, and Masanori Sekiya piloting an F1 GTR to victory ahead of heavily favored protoypes. It helped seal the legend of the F1, and made McLaren the only constructor to win motorsport's triple crown, with victories at Le Mans, Monaco, and Indy. To commemorate, McLaren has created the 750S Le Mans, which has all kinds of neat details that reference the F1 GTR. McLaren will build 50 examples, each in one of two color options. The Le Mans Gray references the livery of the Uneo Clinic-sponsored car that won, while the McLaren Orange is painted in the company's traditional racing color. The car features a new High-Downforce Kit (HDK), which consists of a much larger splitter and a carbon-fiber wing out back. You also get roof scoop, and amazing five-spoke "LM" wheels that nod to the OZ Racing wheels used on the first F1 GTR race cars. The wheel center caps are red on one side of t...