It was interesting listening to GM talk about the F1, saying how rubbish some of it was (air con, lights, downforce) and how the new one is better everywhere. I would guess he’s sold enough to know that it will happen, so any sold after 70or so is profit.
It was wasn’t it!
I think pretty much everyone else on earth who is interested in Cars will put the F1 on this pedestal of being ‘perfection’ and how it was made without compromise, gold this, titanium that etc, but 30 years later it seems like every other car it was made to a budget and to a deadline.
I don’t know who true this is, but if you’re really very anoraky you could argue that the F1 isn’t 100% road legal. The rear lights famously came off a Lorry, McLaren needed rear lights and were searching around for off-the-shelf options when they found the IVECO ones which worked for them – but lorry lights don’t go through the same type approval as car lights, “but wait, it’s okay because TVR had already used them so they must be approved for cars!” Only years later did they realise that TVR, being TVR, didn’t worry about stuff like rules and regulations and just stuck them on.