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Video worth watching: Andy Wallace on setting the record for the fastest production car in the McLaren F1

Wallace set the record in 1998, hitting 391kmph back in 1998

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Overdrive|Jan 29, 2017, 10:45:10 IST

We all know the McLaren F1. It’s was born in the 90s, but is still one of the fastest cars ever made! In 1993, McLaren set the record for the fastest production car, hitting 371.76kmph (231mph), at the Nardo Ring in Italy. But Gordan Murray, the man responsible for building the F1, was certain it could go faster. So in 1998, they asked LeMans-winner Andy Wallace, to drive the car flat-out at Volkswagen’s Ehra-Lessien proving ground in German. Wallace, who immediately agreed without thinking, admits in the video that he was much younger and...

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First Published:Jan 29, 2017, 10:45:10 IST
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