Coches de carreras McLaren: libros - historia, modelos y técnica

McLaren demeure l'écurie de Formule 1 la plus titrée après Ferrari : 182 Grands Prix remportés. La marque a aussi triomphé au Mans (pour sa première participation !), à Indianapolis (à trois reprises) et en Can-Am, avec de fabuleux prototypes, à peu près invincibles.

Après trois épisodes qui ont laissé autant de supercars fascinantes, McLaren a osé lancer une vraie marque de sportives de route, face à la marque au cheval cabré. Succès complet : 15 000 voitures en six ans et une gamme qui s'étend, tandis que la dynastie de supercars continue, à très haute altitude en matière de prix comme de puissance.
À l'origine de tout cela, un homme, Bruce McLaren, prodige du volant, qui court dès ses 15 ans, entre en F1 à 20, crée sa première auto à 30. Il disparaît en 1970, au volant d'une McLaren, mais ses associés continuent son œuvre dans l'élan qu'il a su donner.

Avec cet ouvrage sur McLaren, l'auteur exprime à la fois sa passion pour les Grand Tourisme d'exception, son intérêt pour les coulisses d'une des écuries de course les plus prestigieuses et sa fascination pour l'homme qui a permis tout cela, Bruce McLaren.

Sommaire:

1. L'homme avant la marque, Bruce McLaren, un destin (avant 1966)
2. Les débuts de McLaren Cars : l'artisanat de la course (1966-1970)
3. Can-Am, royaume de la démesure (1966-1970)
4. Formule 1, la gloire d'un nom (1970-1976)
5. L'autre aventure américaine, Indy (1970-1982)
6. L'arme des vainqueurs (1983-1995)
7. "La meilleure routière du monde" (1990-2000)
8. Woking, rêve d'usine
9. L'affrontement (1998-1999)
10. SLR, une GT pour Mercedes (2003-2010)
11. L'alliance victorieuse, McLaren et Mercedes
12. McLaren de route et de rêve
13. Les McLaren GT en compétition
14. La McLaren P1
15. ... Tomorrow.

Fifty years after its founding, McLaren remains one of the essential teams in Formula One - and one of the most revered names in motor racing history. Tyler Alexander was there from the very beginning. After joining the new team as a mechanic in 1964, he soon played a critical role in creating its earliest cars, which quickly scored wins in Formula One and dominated the original Can-Am sports-car series. At the same time, Tyler was recording the team's progress through hundreds of vivid photographs taken during spare moments at the track and behind the scenes at the McLaren factory.

"McLaren From The Inside" collects the best of Alexander's images from two very different eras. Part I covers the team's formative years in the 1960s through black- and-white shots of Bruce McLaren and company building, testing, and racing cars in England and around the world. Friends and competitors are also included, among them such great drivers as Jim Clark, Dan Gurney, and Jackie Stewart, as well as team leaders John Cooper, Carroll Shelby, and Colin Chapman.
In Part II, Alexander captures the high-tech, hypercompetitive atmosphere of today's Formula One with images taken during the first decade of the 21st century. Along with a new generation of driving talent - Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen - Alexander's lens also focuses on the designers, engineers, mechanics, and other team members who continue to make McLaren so successful today.

Un livre de Brooklands consacré aux voitures McLaren F1, GTR et LM.

• Les articles, parus à l'époque dans la presse automobile anglo-saxonne, sont une bonne source d'information sur l'histoire, l'évolution des modèles et la technique.
• Cet ouvrage contient aussi des impressions de conduite, des tests routiers et comparatifs, des données techniques, etc.

The McLaren MP4/4 is the iconic Honda V6 turbo-powered F1 car built by McLaren for the 1988 grand prix season, driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. Remarkably, the car won all but one race during the year, and took McLaren's new recruit Senna to his first World Championship after a season-long battle with team-mate Prost. McLaren achieved an astonishing ten 1-2 finishes with the car, and suffered only two car-related retirements during the season.

The MP4/4 is still statistically the most dominant F1 car ever built, taking pole position and victory in all but one of the 1988 season's 16 races, Senna taking 13 pole positions, and eight wins, with two poles and seven wins for Prost.

Officially licensed from McLaren, and produced with their full cooperation and unique access to a race-winning MP4/4 chassis, this manual provided a unique insight into the design, engineering and operation of one of F1's most iconic cars, featuring input from the designers, engineers and drivers involved.

This is the previously untold story of McLaren Engines, an American company founded in 1969 by Bruce McLaren and his partners to build engines for McLaren's legendary Can-Am and Indy Cars. From this base in suburban Detroit were born the mighty big-block Chevrolet V8s that powered the iconic orange cars to two of their five consecutive Cam-Am championships.

McLaren's busy dyno rooms also spawned the howling turbo Offenhausers that put Mark Donahue and Johnny Rutherford in Victory Lane at Indianapolis three times between 1972 and 1976.
For decades this nondescript shop was the hotbed of horsepower for factories and top independents alike. McLaren Engines developed the turbocharged Cosworth DFV Formula 1 engine that powered Indy cars for both Team McLaren and Penske Racing. It rendered BMW's turbo engine for U.S.

IMSA racing that later became BMW's Formula 1 weapon. The long list of race engines developed here powered Buick Indy and IMSA cars, BMW GTP cars, Cadillac LeMans prototypes, Porsche Trans-Am 944s and David Hobbs' F5000 single seaters.
There were McLaren-built big-block turbo V8s for offshore boat racing and even a Cosworth-Vega engine for American dirt tracks!

Author Roger Meiners combines his life-long passion for motor racing and technology with his historian's sensibilities to make the engines, cars, and key personalities come alive within this book's pages. Ride along with Meiners as he uncovers little-known details of the company's transition from a race shop to an engineering company, developing lust-worthy performance cars such as the sensational 1987 Buick GNX, the 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix Turbo, the FR500 Ford Mustang concept, and other projects that the public never saw.
Today the company, known as McLaren Engineering, is a subsidiary of Canada-based Linamar Corporation, and is sought after by global automakers for its unrivalled testing, development and manufacturing capability.