McLaren MP4/4: The Ultimate expression of teamwork
Two designers of the most successful F1 car of all time, the McLaren MP4/4, explain how it was borne of brilliant creativity and practical thinking
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Taken from Motor Sport, December 2022, ‘Ultimate expression of teamwork’: how McLaren created the MP4/4
For any Formula 1 designers looking back on chapter after chapter of success, picking out just one creation can be tricky to say the least.
Particularly difficult when you had a hand in the ground-breaking McLaren MP4/1, the first F1 car with a carbon monocoque. Or its eventual follow-up, which Niki Lauda took to a brilliant third title after his incredible comeback. Then again, you could be agonising to choose between the McLaren-Ford Ayrton Senna laid waste to the field with at Donington ’93, or the MP4/13 Mika Häkkinen claimed his first crown in.