Integrated into the design were many elements off the race cars, so they were arguably competition machines homologated for the street. Given that high finish by five GTRs it was decided to create five F1 LMs. Was it a chancy undertaking? Jeff Hazell, then Head of Motorsports at McLaren Cars, was quoted as saying, “We weren’t actually sure if we would even sell five, but we launched it at the production facility and we sold five cars probably in five minutes. Perhaps we should have made more...”