Manuel Nathan
Tom Hartley Jnr has succeeded to secure the exchange of the only road-legal McLaren F1 GTR Longtail the asking price not being revealed yet. It is one of ten vehicles and was used as the model car by McLaren.
This distinct McLaren F1 GTR Longtail was sold to Japan after McLaren had completed development. It raced in the 1997 Suzuka 1000 km where it ran in Lark Livery. It achieved 9th place in that race.
Between the years 1995 and 2005, the GTR-19R pursued extensively in Japanese GT and resistance events. It was then sold to the United States before proceeding back to the UK.
The car was road legalized by the specialists Levante alongside Gordon Murray Design and besides the fact that it wears a number plate, still, every inch of it screams “race car” when seen on the track.
The specs of this car still sound phenomenal after its swap to road-legal car parts packing under the hood a V-12 6.0-liter engine with 600 horsepower and 480 lb-ft of torque alongside with the X-Trac 6-speed sequential transmission doing 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds and achieving a top speed of 207 MPH.
The GTR Longtail was originally used in racing by Team Goh in the 1997 competition called FIA GT race at Suzuka, being sold afterward to Team Take One for the 1999 Japanese Grand Touring Championship and raced continuously until 2002 when it was converted to road-legal specs as a retirement honor and then sold off to private owners.
It’s one of the 10 F1 GTR Longtails manufactured in 1997 and the only one available on sale today, the main reason being that only 10 have been ever manufactured and the second being the fact that most of them are either inadequate institutions or at private collectors.
The asking price for it hasn’t been revealed but speculations say it might be floating around 7 to 10 million USD.
The acquisition of the famous car includes a spares package, with all of the components needed to convert the McLaren back to full race specification, if wanted.
