, but is that true, even in the case of the £866,000 McLaren P1? CAR tech looks at the similarities between Jenson Button’s weekend racer and McLaren’s hybrid supercar:Hello. My name is Fred. I write about motor racing on Jalopnik all the time and have done live blogs for the three largest endurance races in the world (Le Mans, Sebring and Daytona) for them over the past seven months. I know a little bit about sports car racing.
With all due respect, if you think that Le Mans isn’t the most important thing to a car of that era, you do not understand motorsport. In the 1960s (and every year before about 1985 when the two biggest racing series in the world, F1 and NASCAR, really went mainstream), the Indianapolis 500 and 24 Hours of Le Mans were the two most important events in the racing world bar none, to the point that they were the only two mainstream racing events on earth. One is a test of a driver more than anything, that being the Indianapolis 500, and the other is a test of a car … More