The Mclaren Technology Centre
On Saturday I had the privilege on visiting the Mclaren Technolgoy Centre at Working.
It’s hard to explain what it’s like. Part Bond movie set, part NASA and very much Mclaren.
We travelled down the VIP road past the lake, you can’t see the Centre from the road and it’s amazing as you travel down the road and see the building.
We walked down the walk way above the main boulevard where we could see the historic cars dotted around.
Launda’s championship winning car, Prost’s championship winning car, Mika’s championship winning car and Senna’s championship winning car plus the car he won his last ever race in.
I had my picture taken with Kimi’s Belgium GP winning car.
We walked past the trophies in to the wind tunnel then to the race preparation area. JPM’s and Kimi’s cars where there fresh from Hungary. Kimi’s car complete with FIA seals on the engine. Being able to to touch the cars was amazing.
We saw how they make the parts, like the wings and gearbox’s (aprox 90,000 pounds per gearbox!) and then went on to look at where the SLK road car is being made.
Big thanks to Team Mclaren for the tour, its 3 hours I will never forget
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