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After years of development, testing, and fine-tuning, the spiritual successor of the McLaren F1 and one of the most anticipated hypercars in recent memory hit the track for the first time yesterday. Behind the wheel was none other than Professor Gordon Murray himself, the mastermind behind this incredible machine.
Experience the T.50 as Gordon Murray Drives It on the Track for the First Time 16 Mar 2021, 8:24 UTC ·
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Codenamed XP1, the first functional McLaren F1 prototype was driven for the first time on December 23, 1992. By March, while it was undergoing hot-weather tests in Namibia, it was crashed by a BMW engineer. Thankfully, he survived, but the XP1 burned to the ground.