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McLaren Racing Limited (F1), McLaren Automotive, McLaren Applied Technologies, McLaren Electronic Systems. McLaren Group.
Not intended as a competitor to the rolling race car/driver specific threads, but instead a place to discuss among other things the way in which the various developments by the subsidiaries of the McLaren group are feeding or have fed either directly or in-directly back into the groups principle focus, the F1 program which is being run by McLaren racing limited.
Anything that you feel may be out of place or beyond the scope of the race car, race driver specific threads is welcome here. This is a context which should therefore provide fertile ground for the discussion of 'anything' McLaren through the literal consideration of the McLaren groups stated raison d'être, the F1 program which is being run by McLaren racing limited and served by the group as a whole.
In simple terms then, this could be considered the General: McLaren thread. Or the place for anything not allowed in the rightly specific car MP4-?/drivers threads.
McLaren in general, be that corporate affairs (accounts for the previous financial year), corporate expansion/contracts/sponsors, the ongoing development of automotive, specifically the MP4-12C, the history of automotive, the development of the new McLaren V8. The development of McLaren racing limited and past/present and future iterations of the MP4 F1 car, the history of McLaren racing limited, which should be considered distinct from a pure form of nostalgia and considered in the way in which certain historically significant developments, developmental working methods and race strategies (for example the McLaren pre-refueling era strategies) relate directly to the challenges faced by the contemporary McLaren.
How the work of the key McLaren group subsidiaries McLaren Electronic Systems, McLaren Applied Technologies and McLaren Automotive benefit the racing team proper. (you can include the work of the catering arm 'absolute taste' if you must, I am sure developments here though are representative of a McLaren philosophy as opposed for example to being of any direct use to the aero department)
So from within this context feel free to openly discuss all the developments at the McLaren Group, since such developments can not be anything other than related to the groups stated reason for being, the F1 program run by McLaren racing limited and the construction of the contemporary and future iterations of the MP4 F1 car.
Please feel free therefore to discuss within this context the current development issues associated with the MP4-12C and the development of its V8 within the context of the providing of a potential platform for a McLaren works F1 engine for future iterations of the MP4 F1 car.
This may or may not provide an opportunity to overcome the fragmented nature of the discussion of all things McLaren racing. It's an experiment. A haven for the increasingly diverse world of the McLaren F1 team. It probably won't have the relevance of the car/driver specific threads at the moment and rightfully so, but off season it could just provide a haven where it is necessary sometimes to go off topic when following a group as diverse as McLaren, whose sole reason for being is racing. And if so, you are covered here.
Looking forward also to seeing some great contemporary photo's and footage of anything McLaren old and new particularly due to the related and relevant discussions such images tend to inspire.
Edited by werks prototype, 19 January 2010 - 11:11.
no need for this. "If this thread isn't zapped "
That was a cracker
