Unfortunately, although the McLarens took the championship fight to the season finale at Laguna Seca (where JJ Lehto joined Kox in 23R and Ravaglia shared 21R with the team’s other title hopeful, Steve Soper), Mercedes’ next generation CLK GTR ultimately proved too fast.Ĭhassis 23R was retired from competition duty at the end of 1997.
Thereafter, best results for the car were second in the penultimate race of the year at Sebring and a brace of fourth place finishes at the Nurburgring and Spa. It also looked like Kox and Ravaglia would take the win at the next round in Helsinki, however, more transmission woes forced them out just 20 minutes from the end. Having retired from the season-opener at Hockenheim (owing to a gearbox failure), Kox and Ravaglia took victory in round two at Silverstone they were at the head of the field when the race was stopped shortly after the three hour mark as a result of torrential conditions.
Whereas BMW’s 1996 cars were prepared and raced by the Italian Bigazzi squad, Schnitzer would be responsible for this latest campaign.Ģ3R was the car allocated to Peter Kox and Roberto Ravaglia for the majority of the 1997 FIA GT Championship.
MCLAREN F1 GTR SERIES
Having purchased three cars the previous year (to contest the Le Mans 24 Hours and a handful of late season events in Brazil), BMW (who supplied engines for all iterations of the F1) expanded their operation in 1997 to include an attack on the FIA GT Championship (which took over from the BPR Global Endurance series that had been held between 19). McLaren Legend cars in GT7 McLaren F1 94 642.02 PP 18,500,000 Credits McLaren F1 GTR 772.10 PP 10,500,000 Credits McLaren F1 GTR Race Car 97 840.76 PP 9,500,000 Credits Mercedes-Benz GT7 Legend cars Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG 71 510.87 PP 550,000 Credits Mercedes-Benz S Barker Tourer. Along with 21R, 24R and 26R, chassis 23R was one of the four long tailed F1 GTRs sold to BMW Motorsport for the 1997 season. The 1995 McLAREN F1 GTR is a racing version of the McLAREN F1 sports car first produced in 1995 for grand touring style racing, such as the BPR Global GT.
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