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Watch how the McLaren F1 broke the speed record in 1998

Watch how the McLaren F1 broke the speed record in 1998

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blogentry-133713-0-78192700-1485837662_thumb.jpgIt has been 25 years since the since the birth of the McLaren F1 and the company has released a video of how it managed to break the speed record back in 1998.

 

Featuring Le Mans winner Andy Wallace, who is also the guy behind the wheel of the record-breaking top speed run, the film shows us how it was like as both man and machine managed a peak speed of 391km/h.

 

The record remained unbeaten until 2007, almost 10 years later. Then the Bugatti Veyron came along and did a 408km/h record at the same venue in the same Ehra-Lessien proving ground in Germany.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93CjrQDC0Ic


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