[McClarenDesign]

Just a reminder, as I'm sure most of you are like me and skim the OP straight to the car, Turismo.M.G! has asked me to look after the thread while he's away conquering the world. Please have your submissions in by Thursday night, and check your inboxes for a PM from me so I can post next weeks car first thing Friday morning.

Thank you, and enjoy the cars!

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[We Are Alfisti]

Nice review and photos McClaren
Cheers

[McClarenDesign]

We Are Alfisti

Nice review and photos McClaren
Cheers

Thanks.

What I didn't tell everyone was that what you see is the 2nd draft. The first was lost when I had just finished it, and was about to start proofreading. Accidentally closed the window, instead of selecting the proper one millimeters away.

At 4 am.

And I had to be at work at 8a.

Sadly, this wasn't as good, but I'm freakin spent and still have to stay up to get my fix tonight and help a new member.

My name is McClarenDesign... I am very serious SLS AMG... and I'm an addict....

[iainn]

I wasn't sure this would be as good as the recent choices for COTW, but I'm happy to say I was wrong, it's a great choice.

First up was the standard model for a speed test, 60mph in 7.23 sec is not bad for a heavy 4 door saloon car!

After an oil change and some Sports Hard tyres I also gave it a coat of paint (Mercedes Feueropal) and some new wheels and I think it looks great, mean as hell and ready to go.

So off to my usual COTW track, the Nurburgring for a quick-ish lap in 8:54.0, I have to say this was a "red" lap as I had it on the grass a couple of times.



Oops, but a dab of oppo and I'm away...one for the sniff petrol fans there.

The Merc is looking great so I go back to the Nurburgring GP track to pose for some pics.


Next up is the car that was my nemesis on GT4. I gave up on the game in the end as I couldn't get past the licence test using the Touring Car round the Ring!


In the speed test the Touring Car gets to 60mph in 4.16 secs and 100 in 8.57!

I try the Ring again and manage to get round in a clean lap time of 7:34.0 and it's much more fun this time this would be a very quick racing car in better hands than mine.



Cheers COTW fans.

[nitrorocks]

I love both of those cars. For the stock 190E, sport hard tires are just the right amount of no grip.

[McClarenDesign]

I was surprised by how much grip the stock CS tires gave. I could have pushed harder, but the suspension left me feeling numb and detached.

[Turismo.M.G!]

McClarenDesign

Photo: Lewis_Hamilton_

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Best. Photo. Ever.

[nitrorocks]

That Is an awesome picture!

[Turismo.M.G!]

iainn

Oops, but a dab of oppo and I'm away...one for the sniff petrol fans there.

"The Merc 190e EVO II is a b*tch, and I spanked it!" Gotta love the 'Queef


Right, I am away for a week now, off on a road trip taking in many of the best driving roads I can think of, a trip to Monaco and Sunday spent at the Nurburgring (in real life!). If I don't find myself at the bottom of the Stelvio Pass in a burning wreck or wrapped around a barrier at The Carousel I will be back for next weeks car. In the mean time, McClarenDesign is the man in the know.


By the way, bit of interesting history for (almost) this car at the 'ring - lifted from wikipedia;

'1984: The new Grand Prix track

To celebrate its opening, an exhibition race was held, on 12 May, featuring an array of notable drivers. Driving identical Mercedes 190E 2.3–16, the line-up was Elio de Angelis, Jack Brabham (Formula 1 World Champion 1959, 1960, 1966), Phil Hill (1961), Denis Hulme (1967), James Hunt (1976), Alan Jones (1980), Jacques Laffite, Niki Lauda (1975, 1977 *), Stirling Moss, Alain Prost *, Carlos Reutemann, Keke Rosberg (1982), Jody Scheckter (1979), Ayrton Senna *, John Surtees (1964) and John Watson. Senna won ahead of Lauda, Reutemann, Rosberg, Watson, Hulme and Jody Scheckter, being the only one to resist Lauda's overwhelming performance who - having missed the qualifying - had to start from the last row and overtook all the others except Senna [4] .[5][6] The * in the previous paragraph indicates that titles which were not yet won at the time of the race are not mentioned here - so there were nine former and two future Formula 1 World Champions competing, quite a good rate in a field of 20 cars with 16 Formula 1 drivers; the other four were rather local drivers: Klaus Ludwig, Manfred Schurti, Udo Schütz and Hans Herrmann.'

Don't know if thats any interest to anyone other than me, but I now have to pretend I am Ayrton Senna driving it!

[McClarenDesign]

Turismo.M.G!

"The Merc 190e EVO II is a b*tch, and I spanked it!" Gotta love the 'Queef

Right, I am away for a week now, off on a road trip taking in many of the best driving roads I can think of, a trip to Monaco and Sunday spent at the Nurburgring (in real life!). If I don't find myself at the bottom of the Stelvio Pass in a burning wreck or wrapped around a barrier at The Carousel I will be back for next weeks car. In the mean time, McClarenDesign is the man in the know.

By the way, bit of interesting history for (almost) this car at the 'ring - lifted from wikipedia;

'1984: The new Grand Prix track

To celebrate its opening, an exhibition race was held, on 12 May, featuring an array of notable drivers. Driving identical Mercedes 190E 2.3–16, the line-up was Elio de Angelis, Jack Brabham (Formula 1 World Champion 1959, 1960, 1966), Phil Hill (1961), Denis Hulme (1967), James Hunt (1976), Alan Jones (1980), Jacques Laffite, Niki Lauda (1975, 1977 *), Stirling Moss, Alain Prost *, Carlos Reutemann, Keke Rosberg (1982), Jody Scheckter (1979), Ayrton Senna *, John Surtees (1964) and John Watson. Senna won ahead of Lauda, Reutemann, Rosberg, Watson, Hulme and Jody Scheckter, being the only one to resist Lauda's overwhelming performance who - having missed the qualifying - had to start from the last row and overtook all the others except Senna [4] .[5][6] The * in the previous paragraph indicates that titles which were not yet won at the time of the race are not mentioned here - so there were nine former and two future Formula 1 World Champions competing, quite a good rate in a field of 20 cars with 16 Formula 1 drivers; the other four were rather local drivers: Klaus Ludwig, Manfred Schurti, Udo Schütz and Hans Herrmann.'

Don't know if thats any interest to anyone other than me, but I now have to pretend I am Ayrton Senna driving it!

Great find! Have fun.

[jedisteampunk]

If you can get a ride in a ring taxi, you won't regret it.

[Lewis_Hamilton_]

Turismo.M.G!

Best. Photo. Ever.

nitrorocks

That Is an awesome picture!

Hey thanks! Here's all of the photo's I selected from our touring car session. Like an idiot though, I didn't save our replays of me and McClarenDesign racing the road car versions.

Great review McClaren, and it was fun taking part.

This car looks incredibly for a standard, those decals and sponsor stickers are definitely of premium quality, and virtually no jaggies on the car either. the only thing letting it down are the headlights. And boy do I love these cars, they're perfect for my driving style.

[McClarenDesign]

That photo was pretty epic. Massive fun, and special thanks to Lewis for his help.

[Spagetti69]

Sorry nevermind.

[XDesperado67]

Turismo.M.G!

"The Merc 190e EVO II is a b*tch, and I spanked it!" Gotta love the 'Queef


Right, I am away for a week now, off on a road trip taking in many of the best driving roads I can think of, a trip to Monaco and Sunday spent at the Nurburgring (in real life!). If I don't find myself at the bottom of the Stelvio Pass in a burning wreck or wrapped around a barrier at The Carousel I will be back for next weeks car. In the mean time, McClarenDesign is the man in the know.


By the way, bit of interesting history for (almost) this car at the 'ring - lifted from wikipedia;

'1984: The new Grand Prix track

To celebrate its opening, an exhibition race was held, on 12 May, featuring an array of notable drivers. Driving identical Mercedes 190E 2.3–16, the line-up was Elio de Angelis, Jack Brabham (Formula 1 World Champion 1959, 1960, 1966), Phil Hill (1961), Denis Hulme (1967), James Hunt (1976), Alan Jones (1980), Jacques Laffite, Niki Lauda (1975, 1977 *), Stirling Moss, Alain Prost *, Carlos Reutemann, Keke Rosberg (1982), Jody Scheckter (1979), Ayrton Senna *, John Surtees (1964) and John Watson. Senna won ahead of Lauda, Reutemann, Rosberg, Watson, Hulme and Jody Scheckter, being the only one to resist Lauda's overwhelming performance who - having missed the qualifying - had to start from the last row and overtook all the others except Senna [4] .[5][6] The * in the previous paragraph indicates that titles which were not yet won at the time of the race are not mentioned here - so there were nine former and two future Formula 1 World Champions competing, quite a good rate in a field of 20 cars with 16 Formula 1 drivers; the other four were rather local drivers: Klaus Ludwig, Manfred Schurti, Udo Schütz and Hans Herrmann.'

Don't know if thats any interest to anyone other than me, but I now have to pretend I am Ayrton Senna driving it!

Forget Senna I want to be Niki Lauda. Come on he had to do what we do in GT5 all the time. Start dead last in the field. He had 20 cars to pass and managed to get 19 of them. Doesn't say where Senna started or by how much he won by but Lauda must have put on the show of a lifetime with that run.

[McClarenDesign]

XDesperado67

Forget Senna I want to be Niki Lauda. Come on he had to do what we do in GT5 all the time. Start dead last in the field. He had 20 cars to pass and managed to get 19 of them. Doesn't say where Senna started or by how much he won by but Lauda must have put on the show of a lifetime with that run.

Remember that when you see Ron Howards next film. It includes Niki's near fatal crash at Nurburgring.

But if the other choice is a wreck at Imola....

[XDesperado67]

McClarenDesign

Remember that when you see Ron Howards next film. It includes Niki's near fatal crash at Nurburgring.

But if the other choice is a wreck at Imola....

I think the operative word there is "near" meaning lots of pain but your still around to talk about it afterwards.

[McClarenDesign]

XDesperado67

I think the operative word there is "near" meaning lots of pain but your still around to talk about it afterwards.

Burning alive is, like Super Dave would say, RECORD PAIN!

[jedisteampunk]

James Hunt famously said ''I wouldn't worry about your face Niki, you were ugly in the first place!'' After Lauda's firey crash.