mclaren f1 performance

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Tried another gear calculator plugged in the gearing numbers, got the same result.

Maybe Autocar got a prototype or something with a transmission other than production, or they didn't get the numbers right. I don't know.

Maybe the gearing numbers that Wiki and and Autocar published aren't correct. I'm trying to find the old Road and Track article, they usually put a speed in gear graph of whatever thy drive.
 
skywolf23
Hmm trying to remember how that one story i heard went.....was this guy owned a mclaren f1 apparently he was having problems with the car stalling out while driving it, so one day on the autobahn he called mclaren when his car stopped again so mclaren checked the telemetry on the car he had been doing 238 or so miles per hour for the last few miles and drained the fuel tank dry.....apparently he did this a lot...dunno if the story is true, or cannot recall the exact details, but it went something like that.

Pretty sure the F1 in its prime could get close to 240, fact the game has it wrong....well they got the veyron wrong to so. Here is hoping that one day PD decides to fix the gearboxes.
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I remember reading a story about a German banker who bought 2 F1s - one for the road and one for racing.

As part of his job he had to make a long commute once a month, which used to take him about 4 hours in his 911 Turbo, and in his F1 he dropped to about 2 hours. When he connected it up for the first service (via the internet) they said there must be something wrong as there were some unusually high speeds that had been recorded, 205mph, 209mph, 211mph etc.

Of course there was no problem.

Sounds like it might be the same story, dunno. It was in one of the car mags
 
PagodaTop
I remember reading a story about a German banker who bought 2 F1s - one for the road and one for racing.

As part of his job he had to make a long commute once a month, which used to take him about 4 hours in his 911 Turbo, and in his F1 he dropped to about 2 hours. When he connected it up for the first service (via the internet) they said there must be something wrong as there were some unusually high speeds that had been recorded, 205mph, 209mph, 211mph etc.

Of course there was no problem.

Sounds like it might be the same story, dunno. It was in one of the car mags
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Just watched a video about the Mclaren F1, they told a similar story, sommething about doing over 200mph on the Autobahn daily to get to work, that was later confirmed by Mclaren technicians looking at his telemetry. :-)

Gotta love someone who uses his car for what it was built for.
 
transam1998
And exactly how do you not have traction issues with a 2600 lb car with 630hp and street tires?
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Tuning the suspension and the Limited Slip Differential normally helps..

Plus, put on sports soft tyres, like I've already mentioned twice.
 
Highlandor
Tuning the suspension and the Limited Slip Differential normally helps..

Plus, put on sports soft tyres, like I've already mentioned twice.
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Lol, you don't have to convince me, talk to the guy complaining about not enough traction with the F1. I actually understand.
 
What's better the enzo or the mclaren f1 just got to level 19 so need something good the gran truismo championship on extreme!
 
Slightly off topic: I just bought the McLaren F1 this morning and put on the front body kit and the straight wing. If you equip those then it comes out looking like the F1 LM. I had to leave for work, so I haven't driven it yet, but maybe the added downforce could help?

//It looks beautiful
 
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The added downforce helps but only at high speed, which is where the Mclaren is already quite dominant, its in the low speeds where it has trouble due to the ammount of torque and the long first gear. Personally i don't have issues driving the car, i usually drive it on hard racing tyres but its fine on sports too if you're careful with the throttle.

Having tested the Enzo, id say the Mclaren is far superior on sports tyres and i had much more trouble driving the Ferrari.

Back on the downforce subject, you can add downforce but it is minimal, the cars with the option of a race mod available also get alot more downforce and personally i think with the price of the aerodynamic parts for the F1 they should add as much as the race modded cars.
 
Rodaz
What's better the enzo or the mclaren f1 just got to level 19 so need something good the gran truismo championship on extreme!
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hmm, sounds like we should setup an (clean) online race, I have both cars, we could throw in some others for good measure :-)
 
Eric.
2) Drag racing a Bugatti Veyron against the F1 is not going to be close. It has been tested that if you let a McLaren get a head start to 100mph (it might be 120mph, I'm not sure which), that the Veyron will still hit 200mph first.
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Correct, if both have ideal launches then the F1 could already be travelling at 100mph when the Veyron sets off and the Veyron will still hit 200mph first.

Bigbazz
Not sure why you would expect an F1 (627bhp listed) to beat the Veyron (1001bhp listed) in a straight line race, the Veyron was specifically designed to go faster in a straight line, the Veyron however is fat and unmodified it will lose in a race on quite a few tracks, though that is tyre specific.
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I doubt that the Veyron would lose to an F1 ono quite a lot of tracks. All the Veyrons lap times (and admittedly there are very few) are very competitive which along with all the write ups on the car does suggest it's very capable. It's probably not as nible as an F1 but it's power probably makes up the difference and then some.

To the above,. Top gear raced a Mclaren F1 and Bugatti and though the Veyron obviously won the race it was close, there is no chance the Veyron would do 0-200 faster than the F1 can do 100-200.
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The TopGear race was set up to make it more dramatic, the Veyron bogged down at launch a lot. The magazine even said that they also raced in conditions specifically that would suite the F1 more to make it closer. The Veyron ordinarily would have been much further ahead than in that race and all the independent acceleration times verify this.

daan
No, it is not. The GT5 F1 can do 80mph in first. The real one can only do 65mph in first.

The GT5 F1 is geared way too high.


Again, the real one will hit it's top speed in 6th, as 5th will "only" take you to 180mph.
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Yep, the gearing on the F1 and a lot of other cars in GT5 is off, as are other aspects of the cars settings. All the more reason it's a shame we can't set individual gear ratios at the moment.
 

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