The McLaren M10 was a Formula 5000 race car chassis built by McLaren that competed in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand between 1969 and 1973.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Design
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The McLaren M10 was manufactured in large numbers. Built close to the weight limit, it was very light and was powered by a 500+ hp Chevrolet V8 engine. The cars were not manufactured by McLaren itself, but by the British racing car manufacturer Trojan. Trojan was able to complete and deliver 17 of the originally ordered quantity of 50 vehicles.
Racing history
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The M10 was the only Formula 5000 racing car to win the North American Formula 5000 Championship twice. In 1970, John Cannon won the championship with four race wins. A year later, Briton David Hobbs won the championship with victories at Seattle, Road America, Laguna Seca, Edmonton, and Lime Rock.
Australian driver Frank Matich drove a Repco-Holden powered McLaren M10B to victory in the 1970 Australian Grand Prix at the Warwick Farm Raceway in Sydney.
The M10 was also used in the European Formula 5000 Championship. In the first season of this series, Peter Gethin won the championship title with an M10 fielded by Church Farm Racing.
References
edit- ^ "1969 McLaren M10".
- ^ "McLaren M10B car-by-car histories".
- ^ "This McLaren F5000 car is brutal and beautiful". 20 February 2013.
- ^ "McLaren".
- ^ "McLaren M10B - Profile, History, Photos, Information". 23 February 2012.
- ^ "Bruce Almighty: 1969 McLaren M10-A Formula 5000". 28 February 2013.
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