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There is a story of a German banker, Dr Thomas Bscher. He used to commute to work in his F1 on the autobahn between his home in Cologne and his office in Frankfurt at speeds over 200mph on a regular basis. His story was validated when McLaren downloaded the ECU's log via the on-board modem connection to the factory. The factory checked over the car's data feed and discovered that it had been hitting 200mph, every single day of the week!
Exactly. I read that story in the French Sport Auto magazine. They thought there was a problem with the black box but he confirmed driving daily at such speeds. A true F1 epicurean owner.
Fake story . While it is true that he did not those speeds. He didn't regularly since mclaren f1 clutch gives out at such high speeds He's be replacing the clutch every few days
My favourite F1 story is when I came out of watching some racing at donington park in the 90s to find a brand spanking new F1 parked next to me in the car park. Made my day.
I had similar situation couple years ago, when I found McLaren 720s prototype (without badges and in camo, about 6 months before it was officially announced) parked up opposite to my fiesta in Dunsfold Aerodrome. Mental :D
Sure, one day someone bought one, it was sitting in a storage garage, then we bought it and it’s rarely getting driven, but now at least it DOES get driven some times like I just said now its sitting next to a P1 its newer brother.
franko008 those pics are from when they first found the car abandoned on the street with the doors open, which is also when the owner was believed to have been kidnapped
Andrew Kay 5 production, 1 prototype. Prototype owned by mclaren, other two in USA. one is owned by Ralph Lauren, the other resides in Chicago I believe
@Andrew Kay: Didn't come good on the deal? Nonsense, the deal was that Lewis would receive F1 LM XP1 IF and only IF McLaren became F1 constructors champion in 2008. They did not win, so McLaren kept the car as per the deal.
checking the video made by Doug DeMuro, that would be Chassis #015; and yes, it lives a very happy and fufilling life in his Big Dog Garage rubbing fenders with Dusenbergs, Chrysler Imperials, Corvette ZR1 Serial #001, and the Blastolene Special!
A lot of cars have 'escaped'. I've driven two of them, a Porsche 993 Turbo in yellow and a Bentley Turbo R in Black. They came through the dealership where I worked, direct from Brunei.
Theo Robinson Me too, if you’re not going to drive it at least let other people enjoy it by seeing it, have it displayed or something. No use in having it locked up and forgotten only to collect dust.
There's a youtuber called "Alpha Guy" that did few videos on the Sultan of Brunei's car collection. Though interesting it was painfully frustrating to see all the amazing & rare cars they own either neglected & collecting dust or tackily modified to meet their garish bling tastes.
"Oh an then there is a guy in Brunei. He bought 10 F1s." I assume he likes the car a little. The amount of money these cars are worth now will be just stunning if money can even pay for them at all
@@TurboSeth some don't know what to fo with there money and are selfish.... Lets buy them so nobody els can. And let then rot till they gone.. Seems like that might be his motto...
I hate when people buy multiple Legendary Cars, just to store them in their Garage. Cars are meant to be driven, not stored in a basement for the rest of their life. Who’s with me to free those 7 Mclarens and all those other Cars in there???
Yesssss part 2 please!!! Also talk about the lost brown F1 with golden wheels from Mexico 🇲🇽 that belonged to a drug lord and haven't been seen in 17 years
@Ezequiel Ridolfi Nope, Compaq LTE 5280, not an Apple Mac. And supposedly they have an emulator nowadays but they were picking up old laptops on eBay for a while.
@@salmanshah9221 The laptop is part of the remote diagnostics that McLaren perform if the F1 equivalent of the check engine light pops on. The car has the modem (as I recall) and the laptop has the troubleshooting software. Assuming phone line access, McLaren can check things out ahead of telling the owner how bad it is.
Ezequiel Ridolfi I read that they have emulators but just in case they also carry around the old compaq pc’s just in case something goes wrong with the emulators
Some greedy person bought 10 F1's and despite having enough money to have bought 10, was too cheap to have the one he crashed repaired, instead he used it as spares.
So has anybody done a video showing off his car collection? If so do any of the f1 get shown or mentioned? I too find it sad the guy didn't get the crashed one fixed and used it for spares. Makes ya wonder when the crash happened. Maybe before they went up for ridiculous amounts of $$? In any case they are extremely rare and somebody with this sorta money doesn't worry about repair costs. Sounds like he is so incredibly wealthy he could probably single handed put that car back into production just to for that car😀
.... to keep several others on the road? The dudes shopping list from McClaren and the fact they made a replica for this guy and some crappy discounted one for the guy who paid for the car... the fact he now has spares, even if McClaren ever go bust he'll be able to keep replacing parts from that for years after... and the donor car was damaged too
@@MersyyLife All of his cars are in an really bad condition. After the money ran out the cars where just left in the storage facility without electricity. If heard story's of Porsche 959's with mold on them. Also the f1's that escaped from there years ago where already in a bad condition, I can't imagine what almost two decades more of sitting in the humid storage facility has done to the others.
It was never totalled! Elon owned chassis #067. He crashed it around the year 2000 while uninsured and then had it repaired before finally selling it in 2007. The car caught fire in the hands of the new owner and was repaired again. The article "A Mclaren F1s rise from the ashes" is about that car.
It's impossible to total an F1 even if it had to be completely rebuilt from the ground up, a sort-of "McLaren F1 of Theseus", it would still be worth it.
Some of them are talking about McLaren chassis #39 which was smuggled into Mexico and was held not owned by a lieutenant in the cartel that was close to El Chapo.
No wonder Jack was in an accident, he was driving a Golf, you could literally trip over that car its so unnoticeable... Now if you was driving a Mx5, he would of seen you, obvious admiring the Mx5, tut tut.
@@eddieru he's a dick, not a cool guy. he didn't found Tesla, he bought the title of founder when he bought the company. he bought it with his family's money, which came from an emerald mine stolen from South African people. he treats his workers horribly. everyone praises him for designing the cars but he doesn't help with it at all, just puts money into the company.
The first (prototype) GT in metallic green was kept by McLaren; the third GT is still around, it went to japan originally but not sure who owns it now, it's spotted occasionaly though. If you Google 'McLaren F1 GT' - it's the two-tone grey and black one. The fatc that it went to Japan and was painted in that scheme makes me wonder if it was ordered by the Japanese Ueno Clinic guy....
The First GT (prototype) was originally owned by McLaren, they sold it to a F1 collector in Geneva, the second GT (silver) was originally burgandy, the owner in Japan had it on display at Zaz museum and somehow it was lit on fire, the car was sent back to the factory for repairs but the chassis was too damaged so McLaren used a spare F1 chassis, they they then repainted it too silver with the interior redone in black alcantara, the car was sent back to Japan and is spotted in Hong Kong sometimes
@@cdsmith1990 The First GT (prototype) was originally owned by McLaren, they sold it to a F1 collector in Geneva, the second GT (silver) was originally burgandy, the owner in Japan had it on display at Zaz museum and somehow it was lit on fire, the car was sent back to the factory for repairs but the chassis was too damaged so McLaren used a spare F1 chassis, they they then repainted it too silver with the interior redone in black alcantara, the car was sent back to Japan and is spotted in Hong Kong sometimes. The red GT was owned by the owner of the clinic, he owned the Most F1's in the world, he owned the yellow F1 (lowest mileage), dark blue F1 (recently sold at auction as a grey lm specification), a grey F1 (resides in Florida now), silver F1 (resides in Chicago), white F1 (resides in UK), 1 orange LM2 (resides in Chicago now), Red GT (still in Japan), 2 F1 GTR lark cars (one lives in the UK now and the other is in Australia) and finally the two tone grey f1
There is an F1 GTR in South Africa owned by nicky Oppenheimer (multi billionaire). Fortunately his car collection is on display and I got to witness the magnificent car with my own eyes.
Experimental Prototype IV (XP4) was sold to businessman Roger Bhatnagar in New Zealand. It featured in a magazine article not long after it arrived downunder but was not performance tested. The car was advertised for sale internationally around 2000 and was sold to a buyer in California. It turned up at Pebble Beach about 4 or 5 years ago. When the car was for sale in Auckland, NZ, it was on public display and I sunck into the centre seat for a few minutes while no one was looking. Just an awesome place to sit.
A friend of mine worked on the gear box. He's a university lecturer now. He's got some pretty cool stories like when they were road testing it and the crotch rocket guys would try to race it round the Brecon beacons, not having a clue what it was.
Well i've got a story for you all The missing Mexican F1, chassis #39 In the late 90s a McLaren F1 was secretly "imported" (the car never got registered) to Mexico by an infamous Cartel leader whose business operated in the state of Sinaloa, nothern Mexico. We know that the car was registered in the UK and the chassis is number 39, a 1/1 spec. Here's where the story turns weird, the owner was supposedly killed in the early 2000's and before he died he hid the keys, after his passing no one knew where he'd left them. After that, someone close to him reached McLaren and they refused to do something with the car's documentation after knowing who the owner actually was and quoted 200k for a new key that was never bought. It is said the car is stored and guarded somewhere in the rural part of Sinaloa and hasn't been seen since 2004. One of the few photos of the car: instagram.com/p/B6HfVfEgUg_/?igshid=9v7tv05042xm
I predict no one will ever surpass the Sultan of Brunei's collection of bespoke automobiles. Gordon Murray's F1 one is unquestionably the epitome of supreme automotive excellence. The greatest car of 20th century .
The F1 still haunts my dreams. I was not expecting a video on it, but now i've seen it, i'm gonna dream about F1 again ! Jay Leno's F1 is amazing too, i've enjoyed its review by Doug Demuro a few months ago.
the sultan of whatever story makes me so pissed off like he buys millions of £ worth of supercars an never drives them but he DOES leave them to rot in garages for the rest of history
@@throwout1483 It is, but it was the one lent to all the press. It's the car the top speed record was achieved and the car that Autocar/Top Gear borrowed back in the day. I've seen it a couple of times and it's incredible
they're all so well known it'd be impossible to sell a stolen F1, unless you're a douchebag like the sultan of brunei and just keeps it locked up for all time.
It would be awesome to see a video like this on the Brunei Car Collection, what’s known to still be there, what’s “escaped”, etc. Great work with the info, and equally so with the animations!
Definitely do a part 2. These cars are legendary and need their stories told to those who will never be able to afford such an incredible piece of art/machinery
The best thing about a McLaren F1: wherever in the world you take it, you don't have to be arsed about what side of the road the country drives on, you can do anything with one
Friend of mine recovered Rowan Atkinsons , and the man himself , after the first crash back to his bodyshop in fleetwood, where it was swiftly collected by McLaren . Crash happened near garstang on the a6.
No mention in this film but I have the service/warantee manual for chassis 017 which was totally destroyed by fire in a vey sad incident the late 90s.The manual has the LM supplement for the owners manual added which I would imagine is quite rare.
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We need part 2
Yeah do a part 2
Can you make a part 2
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There is a story of a German banker, Dr Thomas Bscher. He used to commute to work in his F1 on the autobahn between his home in Cologne and his office in Frankfurt at speeds over 200mph on a regular basis. His story was validated when McLaren downloaded the ECU's log via the on-board modem connection to the factory. The factory checked over the car's data feed and discovered that it had been hitting 200mph, every single day of the week!
Exactly. I read that story in the French Sport Auto magazine. They thought there was a problem with the black box but he confirmed driving daily at such speeds. A true F1 epicurean owner.
@@rudolfdaher Same here, I remember reading this story in Sport Auto, ha ha !
Remember hearing that on "the car's the star"
Fake story . While it is true that he did not those speeds.
He didn't regularly since mclaren f1 clutch gives out at such high speeds
He's be replacing the clutch every few days
"There's nothing sadder than locking a beast in a cage" -Dominic Toretto
Don't quote that fucken ricer movie...............
طثثططط و طحررللب
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo yo calm down
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Ricing is putting modifications on a car that it doesnt need, idk but a 500-1000 bhp car might need a wing.
Miguel Garcia a ricer movie? You sound disgusted with it. Do i smell a fake car fan???
My favourite F1 story is when I came out of watching some racing at donington park in the 90s to find a brand spanking new F1 parked next to me in the car park. Made my day.
I had similar situation couple years ago, when I found McLaren 720s prototype (without badges and in camo, about 6 months before it was officially announced) parked up opposite to my fiesta in Dunsfold Aerodrome. Mental :D
You know you’re rich when you don’t worry about door dings with a mclaren f1
I also wish to see it someday
@@RaytheonNublinski How can you ding a door made from carbon fibre?
@@jannadrielcervo7753 park next to a Volvo.
More Mclaren F1 stories please! It’s the greatest car ever made!
Hi peak time
Sure, one day someone bought one, it was sitting in a storage garage, then we bought it and it’s rarely getting driven, but now at least it DOES get driven some times like I just said now its sitting next to a P1 its newer brother.
You should have a story about the mystery F1 #038 (el chapo’s F1)
@@marcopolo7243 its #39 and I really hope someone finds those keys
Check vin wiki they have some amazing F1 stories too like this same page both great
You forget about the most infamous of all , México lost F1, owned by a deceased Drug dealer
Mike Sanders I want to locate that one, it’s a life goal
Thats the car I want to hear about
@@TheMml2010 they uploaded photos of the car sometime ago in Facebook
franko008 those pics are from when they first found the car abandoned on the street with the doors open, which is also when the owner was believed to have been kidnapped
@@TheMml2010 any links to those pictures b y any chance?
Part 2 please - and more on the remaining 2 lm’s
Andrew Kay 5 production, 1 prototype. Prototype owned by mclaren, other two in USA. one is owned by Ralph Lauren, the other resides in Chicago I believe
One was here in NZ until very recently. It was sold and shipped to a private buyer in Australia.
Andrew Kay Ron Dennis’ deal w/ Lewis was if he was to be a 3-time World Champ w/ Mclaren the LM is his.
@Andrew Kay: Didn't come good on the deal? Nonsense, the deal was that Lewis would receive F1 LM XP1 IF and only IF McLaren became F1 constructors champion in 2008. They did not win, so McLaren kept the car as per the deal.
@@chriszhu8 Thats not a LM tho, its a LM Specifacation and it sold to a buyer in Hong Kong
Elon Musk crashed his F1 which was not even insured, and his famous last words were " Watch This"
his middle name is Cnut
he had a accident but i don't think the car was crushed. Do you have a source?
@@repeatrepeatrepeat according to the book it was restored
I thought Elon’s F1 was sold at 1 mill due to his needed for funding Tesla
@@Phenixzero yes
One car was bought by Jay Leno... And it's living a happy life
:)
It featured in his undercover cops story he told on Top Gear
checking the video made by Doug DeMuro, that would be Chassis #015; and yes, it lives a very happy and fufilling life in his Big Dog Garage rubbing fenders with Dusenbergs, Chrysler Imperials, Corvette ZR1 Serial #001, and the Blastolene Special!
i remember watching Jay do a video on replacing the $20,000 titanium exhaust on it too!
I love how when someone gets a car out off the Brunei collection, Car Throttle says “escaped’.
A lot of cars have 'escaped'. I've driven two of them, a Porsche 993 Turbo in yellow and a Bentley Turbo R in Black. They came through the dealership where I worked, direct from Brunei.
@@stevenfarrington2361
Good Job dude
@@stevenfarrington2361 can you tell me the name of the dealership, I'm interested in buying one of sultan car if the dealership can help
People that never drive their cars are so annoying.
Unfortunately it's those people that fund the making of these cars, for the most part
Ricardo Carmine yea it is, wish we had the money so we could do these cars justice.
I couldn’t agree more. Why even buy something if you won’t be using it?
@@Gandalf721 lol we living good in Brunei free healthcare , free education , free taxes
@@thpcks5959 for sure! love ur country mate.
It honestly makes me so angry that there's a bunch of f1s that never get driven or seen by anyone
Theo Robinson Me too, if you’re not going to drive it at least let other people enjoy it by seeing it, have it displayed or something. No use in having it locked up and forgotten only to collect dust.
@@1Reddd yes at least pick it in a museum on display.
There's a youtuber called "Alpha Guy" that did few videos on the Sultan of Brunei's car collection. Though interesting it was painfully frustrating to see all the amazing & rare cars they own either neglected & collecting dust or tackily modified to meet their garish bling tastes.
The ones in Sultans collections are pretty much trashed, engines would need rebuilding, heat has ruined panels. He loves to fuck things up.
"Oh an then there is a guy in Brunei. He bought 10 F1s."
I assume he likes the car a little. The amount of money these cars are worth now will be just stunning if money can even pay for them at all
That's easily a $60 million collection, excluding the sold and crashed one.
This was just like the tesla theory hiding in garages making it rare only more credible and valuable
Yannick Schmalbrock Sultan of brunei. has over 5000 cars, 50 some enzos, 10 koenigseggs, 600 bentleys, just rotting away
@@TurboSeth some don't know what to fo with there money and are selfish.... Lets buy them so nobody els can. And let then rot till they gone.. Seems like that might be his motto...
Regilio Bouma yep it’s true
Hopefully a Royal Mail lorry doesn't crash into anyone in this video
Was gonna make the same joke 😂
I don't get it?
@@cappunino7629 look at the news dude you will get it then
Luke Cowell ooooh I know what it is now, I saw it on Instagram like 10 times lol
And for the rest of the world?
I hate when people buy multiple Legendary Cars, just to store them in their Garage. Cars are meant to be driven, not stored in a basement for the rest of their life. Who’s with me to free those 7 Mclarens and all those other Cars in there???
Hell yeah
Brunei’s sultan have too many supercars jailed in his collection to free.... not only these McLaren, this man is a fool...
Woah, no hate, but he has gotten them detailed. I have seen the fleet.
YEAHHH LETS RAID THE HOUSE AND FREE THE MCLARENS!!!!
#stormgaragesofbrunei
I'm guessing there's an f1 in a Dubai shopping mall that's been converted into a coin operated ride for the children that rock back and forward?
No it’s actually in the airport or at least it was in 2012
Oh! This wasn't long enough! What about Leno's F1?
he bought his used a in like the late 90s i think
Hopefully they will talk about Leno's F1 in part 2
@@rickb3674 And Elon Musk's
@@eddieru Not used, but new.
Leno's got an F1?! Really?? He never mentions it!
4:00 haha dog's reaction is priceless
Best bit of the video for me :) although the rest was pretty good too :)
The animation in this video is absolutely outrageous. Round of applause, CT team!
Yesssss part 2 please!!!
Also talk about the lost brown F1 with golden wheels from Mexico 🇲🇽 that belonged to a drug lord and haven't been seen in 17 years
0:11
Chassis number #039, brown and gold rims... Probably talk about it in the second part.
We need to free those 7 f1’s. Who’s coming with me?
southernstyleman
While you’re at it go upstairs and spend some time with the super models. This creepy fella likes beautiful things.
Get the Sultan's one off Ferrari as well
@Zack Smith ehhh your right. You know it costs more to maintain a Ferrari than it does to buy one.
I call dibs on chassis #LM5 👀
Enjoy time in jail mate
Don't forget that the F1 uses a 20+ year old compaq laptop
@Ezequiel Ridolfi Nope, Compaq LTE 5280, not an Apple Mac. And supposedly they have an emulator nowadays but they were picking up old laptops on eBay for a while.
who cares about tech cars like these are worth to be driven only
@@salmanshah9221 The laptop is part of the remote diagnostics that McLaren perform if the F1 equivalent of the check engine light pops on. The car has the modem (as I recall) and the laptop has the troubleshooting software. Assuming phone line access, McLaren can check things out ahead of telling the owner how bad it is.
Ezequiel Ridolfi I read that they have emulators but just in case they also carry around the old compaq pc’s just in case something goes wrong with the emulators
Some greedy person bought 10 F1's and despite having enough money to have bought 10, was too cheap to have the one he crashed repaired, instead he used it as spares.
@ROB112 10 is just greed. And he had scavenge parts from one of them?
Well nobody else wanted to buy them, so he kind of did us a favour, that maybe one day they will come to light.
So has anybody done a video showing off his car collection? If so do any of the f1 get shown or mentioned? I too find it sad the guy didn't get the crashed one fixed and used it for spares. Makes ya wonder when the crash happened. Maybe before they went up for ridiculous amounts of $$? In any case they are extremely rare and somebody with this sorta money doesn't worry about repair costs. Sounds like he is so incredibly wealthy he could probably single handed put that car back into production just to for that car😀
Shutup if you dont know what your talking about mate
@@vexiledrobotics3666 classy response. Please share with us your vast knowledge that is so much greater? Have a great day😀
Favorite car ever makes me sad that one was broken down for spare parts
Same except i feel that way towards every enthusiast car.
.... to keep several others on the road? The dudes shopping list from McClaren and the fact they made a replica for this guy and some crappy discounted one for the guy who paid for the car... the fact he now has spares, even if McClaren ever go bust he'll be able to keep replacing parts from that for years after... and the donor car was damaged too
@@MersyyLife McClaren? dont you mean mclaren?
@@MersyyLife All of his cars are in an really bad condition. After the money ran out the cars where just left in the storage facility without electricity. If heard story's of Porsche 959's with mold on them. Also the f1's that escaped from there years ago where already in a bad condition, I can't imagine what almost two decades more of sitting in the humid storage facility has done to the others.
@@carfreakjim This saddens me.
6:27 That is gonna be the only time in history were McLaren gave anyone a discount. XD
6:03 Animated the brakes glowing.
Which one was pushed down the road by a lorry?
Oh, that was Jack’s Golf!
We just gonna ignore the fact that Elon Musk once totalled a f1
Ok...
Bruh . Total heartbreak
The car was driven at least tho
@@maiwandbawari5489 Poorly, since he crashed it. No wonder he wants to develop autonomous cars...
It was never totalled!
Elon owned chassis #067. He crashed it around the year 2000 while uninsured and then had it repaired before finally selling it in 2007.
The car caught fire in the hands of the new owner and was repaired again. The article "A Mclaren F1s rise from the ashes" is about that car.
It's impossible to total an F1
even if it had to be completely rebuilt from the ground up, a sort-of "McLaren F1 of Theseus", it would still be worth it.
The McLaren F1 is legendary. My most favorite car of all time since the NFS High Stakes and Hot Pursuit 2 days.
Some of them are talking about McLaren chassis #39 which was smuggled into Mexico and was held not owned by a lieutenant in the cartel that was close to El Chapo.
The Amazing McLaren F1 Stories You’ve Never Heard Of:
- She was my wife
- I met F1 in the right time
- We have a son, it’s P1
N K then your son had a senna
Coffee Senna, My grandson 🥰
Coffee but ur son was better in every way compared to your grand son
Fury I must agree
@@fry8h Then your grandson had Speedtail and Valkyrie :D
Amazing stories. We NEED a part 2!
No wonder Jack was in an accident, he was driving a Golf, you could literally trip over that car its so unnoticeable... Now if you was driving a Mx5, he would of seen you, obvious admiring the Mx5, tut tut.
Remember when Elon Musk daylied an F1 until he totaled it?
he did? man he just keeps getting cooler and cooler
@@eddieru he's a dick, not a cool guy. he didn't found Tesla, he bought the title of founder when he bought the company. he bought it with his family's money, which came from an emerald mine stolen from South African people. he treats his workers horribly. everyone praises him for designing the cars but he doesn't help with it at all, just puts money into the company.
There is a video on YT of him telling the story of how he crashed it, when it wasn't insured.
@@kristalic no he got the money from selling pay pal and other silikon valley investments !!!!
@@kristalic You on crack on something?
Saw the f1 gt couple times driven by the royal when i was little. Now i just saw couple of ferraris including laferrari.
The chassis LM4 is now sold to Johor royal family now it's not a part of brunai garage
I want to know where the remaining 2 F1 GTs are and in what condition. And also where the Clinic model is. These stories are very interesting!
The first (prototype) GT in metallic green was kept by McLaren; the third GT is still around, it went to japan originally but not sure who owns it now, it's spotted occasionaly though. If you Google 'McLaren F1 GT' - it's the two-tone grey and black one. The fatc that it went to Japan and was painted in that scheme makes me wonder if it was ordered by the Japanese Ueno Clinic guy....
The First GT (prototype) was originally owned by McLaren, they sold it to a F1 collector in Geneva, the second GT (silver) was originally burgandy, the owner in Japan had it on display at Zaz museum and somehow it was lit on fire, the car was sent back to the factory for repairs but the chassis was too damaged so McLaren used a spare F1 chassis, they they then repainted it too silver with the interior redone in black alcantara, the car was sent back to Japan and is spotted in Hong Kong sometimes
@@cdsmith1990 The First GT (prototype) was originally owned by McLaren, they sold it to a F1 collector in Geneva, the second GT (silver) was originally burgandy, the owner in Japan had it on display at Zaz museum and somehow it was lit on fire, the car was sent back to the factory for repairs but the chassis was too damaged so McLaren used a spare F1 chassis, they they then repainted it too silver with the interior redone in black alcantara, the car was sent back to Japan and is spotted in Hong Kong sometimes. The red GT was owned by the owner of the clinic, he owned the Most F1's in the world, he owned the yellow F1 (lowest mileage), dark blue F1 (recently sold at auction as a grey lm specification), a grey F1 (resides in Florida now), silver F1 (resides in Chicago), white F1 (resides in UK), 1 orange LM2 (resides in Chicago now), Red GT (still in Japan), 2 F1 GTR lark cars (one lives in the UK now and the other is in Australia) and finally the two tone grey f1
There is an F1 GTR in South Africa owned by nicky Oppenheimer (multi billionaire). Fortunately his car collection is on display and I got to witness the magnificent car with my own eyes.
@@mr3e3e67 Word is the F1 GT can possible be purchased for around $20 million
Yes! We want a part 2 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
DEFFINATLY do more of this
I love that in the animations, the F1's wheels and suspension move the way they should.
Experimental Prototype IV (XP4) was sold to businessman Roger Bhatnagar in New Zealand. It featured in a magazine article not long after it arrived downunder but was not performance tested. The car was advertised for sale internationally around 2000 and was sold to a buyer in California. It turned up at Pebble Beach about 4 or 5 years ago. When the car was for sale in Auckland, NZ, it was on public display and I sunck into the centre seat for a few minutes while no one was looking. Just an awesome place to sit.
Definitely need a part 2, video was awesome!!
Loved this, would like to see more vids like this. A cars histories, including the graphics. Could you do AMG?
There's a lost mclaren f1 in México 🇲🇽, Its chasis #39, and no one knows about where's the car
#09R It’s crazy to think that somewhere in a dark warehouse there’s a McLaren F1 sat in a corner gathering dust that’s never been driven.
Thank you for censoring that, I was about to cry
Best car ever. Unmatched.
Loving things like that ! What about the only McLaren F1 still immaculate in delivery condition ? The yellow one
Here in Mexico there a urban legend of a lost f1
it is definitely not an urban legend, its as real as it gets, owner was humberto ojeda
Lost as in, don’t know where I left it lost or lost as in the cartel took it into the jungle lost
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Part II please!
Cool info about the CLK GTR test mule, I never knew that!
Who’s here after the enormous leak
“McLaren branded air”, don’t give them any ideas :P The enitre list is great :D
gold plated oil LMAO
Spotted and loved that cost breakdown LOL
loooooooooooooooooooooool
floor mats $45k
Car extras in a nutshell, the Drink cooler in a Rolls Royce is 20k wtf ? Might as well buy your own from Ikea
Doug Demuro is screaming now
More F1 stories, doesn't matter which. In fact, do both!
You should do a part 2, 3 ,4... and a whole netflix series about McLaren F1’s
A friend of mine worked on the gear box. He's a university lecturer now. He's got some pretty cool stories like when they were road testing it and the crotch rocket guys would try to race it round the Brecon beacons, not having a clue what it was.
Well i've got a story for you all
The missing Mexican F1, chassis #39
In the late 90s a McLaren F1 was secretly "imported" (the car never got registered) to Mexico by an infamous Cartel leader whose business operated in the state of Sinaloa, nothern Mexico. We know that the car was registered in the UK and the chassis is number 39, a 1/1 spec.
Here's where the story turns weird, the owner was supposedly killed in the early 2000's and before he died he hid the keys, after his passing no one knew where he'd left them.
After that, someone close to him reached McLaren and they refused to do something with the car's documentation after knowing who the owner actually was and quoted 200k for a new key that was never bought.
It is said the car is stored and guarded somewhere in the rural part of Sinaloa and hasn't been seen since 2004.
One of the few photos of the car: instagram.com/p/B6HfVfEgUg_/?igshid=9v7tv05042xm
instagram.com/p/BtR_RUBHpzI/?igshid=1g6o1ar5f80dw
instagram.com/p/B6HfVfEgUg_/
instagram.com/p/B6HQg8AAVVQ/
Wanna go on an Sinaloan adventure?
@@marcuszarb4446 i'd rather stay alive
@@ricardocruz3007 nothing to worry about, I can sing a little bit in Spanish, we'll be fine 🤙
Anyone hear about Jack's gti
yes, tragic!!
41AIN what happened?
@@-never-gonna-give-you-up- why?
@@AlCasa52 the GTI was being pushed on the driver side by a truck no major damage though, only the car was slightly injured and Jack was ok
yeah whats the chances of that being him haha awkward
We need more stuff like this, with this guy's voice
Do you need me to beat your teeth in ?
Me minding my own business in 2024 watching old videos.... pausing.... and realising, "OH SHIT THATS EDWIN ON THE VOICEOVER" 😅
I predict no one will ever surpass the Sultan of Brunei's collection of bespoke automobiles.
Gordon Murray's F1 one is unquestionably the epitome of supreme automotive excellence. The greatest car of 20th century .
Mexican F1 chassis #039 was allegedly owned by a drug lord until he was murdered, since then nobody knows what happen to the car
Wrong!
Mahin Rashid not at all :) ua-cam.com/video/HVEKzBcgM34/v-deo.html
Would absolutely love a part 2. This is my favorite car. Hands down
Graphics... more of that please, you guys had my full attention!
Take an F1 apart for spares, while Mr Bean spent more than a million to restore his own... Who else wants to make a raid in the sultan's garage?
The F1 could not be repaired anymore... The chassis had level 7 damage
@@mr3e3e67 makes sense then... Poor car...
Love these stories! Got anymore yet??
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CARS OF ALL TIMES. THANKS
The F1 still haunts my dreams. I was not expecting a video on it, but now i've seen it, i'm gonna dream about F1 again !
Jay Leno's F1 is amazing too, i've enjoyed its review by Doug Demuro a few months ago.
0:46 GTA 5 Repair Car be like
the sultan of whatever story makes me so pissed off
like he buys millions of £ worth of supercars an never drives them but he DOES leave them to rot in garages for the rest of history
You're not the only one pissed at him
Any video about curiosities surrounding the F1 is more than welcome
Did you know Rowan Atkinson has had his F1 for about 17 years😱
With 41,000 miles, probably the highest mileage McLaren ever
No. And I wish I still didnt know this useless information
@@throwout1483 Prototype XP5 is the highest-mileage one, with over 100,000 kilometres on the odometer
Daniel Matthews That’s a hell of a lot for a prototype
@@throwout1483 It is, but it was the one lent to all the press. It's the car the top speed record was achieved and the car that Autocar/Top Gear borrowed back in the day. I've seen it a couple of times and it's incredible
Part 2 should include the one Elon Musk destroyed back in the day
Imagine if there was a heist movie to steal those brunei McLarens.
Not funny,i live in that country
they're all so well known it'd be impossible to sell a stolen F1, unless you're a douchebag like the sultan of brunei and just keeps it locked up for all time.
@@oldfrend The cars are are not rotting away, they are actully being driven sometimes, not everything to read is true...
Mahin Rashid where’s your proof their being driven and maintained? If you have proof I will have deep respect to the sultan of Brunei.
It would be awesome to see a video like this on the Brunei Car Collection, what’s known to still be there, what’s “escaped”, etc.
Great work with the info, and equally so with the animations!
Keep bringing such stories. They are the best.
3:32 project Mx-5 YEAAAAHHH 👍👍👍👍
Part 2 this was interesting project mx5 like if ur excited
I have seen McLaren f1 #014 it was in Connecticut a few years ago at line rock race way such a beautiful csr
Definitely do a part 2. These cars are legendary and need their stories told to those who will never be able to afford such an incredible piece of art/machinery
chassis 009 just got destroyed in sydney Australia
6:06
Nice detailing on the front rotors turning red hot when braking 👍
yes. we need more parts
The last story was heartbreaking :(
@Zack Smith gay
Knowing that there are F1s sitting in a garage that no one has seen makes me want to go find and acquire them
Awesome video guys. Please do more of these backstory videos
That last story is so sad, no car, no matter the value should be locked away in a garage and never move
Shmee needs to find his way into that garage
I'd like to know where George Harrison's F1 is at these days.
Still with his family - www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-beatles-cars-what-did-they-drive
Whatever you guys do, just keep making videos like this. Finish the F1 series in this style, and then go after other supercars. Absolutely love it!
This was bloody brilliant. Keep them coming
Omg yes, yes, yes, PHIL WE MISSED YOU
Who is narrating this? They're not credited.
So your telling me mr bean owned a f1
The best thing about a McLaren F1: wherever in the world you take it, you don't have to be arsed about what side of the road the country drives on, you can do anything with one
Thank God you blurred the crushing of the F1
One of my favourite cars
VRRROOOOOOOMMMM
I own one of these
But in Roblox
Friend of mine recovered Rowan Atkinsons , and the man himself , after the first crash back to his bodyshop in fleetwood, where it was swiftly collected by McLaren . Crash happened near garstang on the a6.
No mention in this film but I have the service/warantee manual for chassis 017 which was totally destroyed by fire in a vey sad incident the late 90s.The manual has the LM supplement for the owners manual added which I would imagine is quite rare.