McLaren MP4-12C

2011 McLaren MP4-12C GT3

McLaren MP4-12C GT3: McLaren unveils GT team and development program aiming to put 12C GT3 customers at the front of the grid

• McLaren Automotive, McLaren Racing, McLaren Electronic Systems and McLaren Applied Technologies joins forces with CRS Racing in development and support of the new MP4-12C GT3

• New MP4-12C GT3 specification features technology from Formula 1 team, suppliers

• plans to offer the GT McLaren MP4-12C GT3 owners access to advanced McLaren Programmes from 2012 Simulator

• 20 MP4-12C GT3 GT3 race cars homologated for racing in 2012

• McLaren GT Announces 2011 Race Schedule for new MP4-12C GT3 with a special appearance planned for Goodwood Festival of Speed

• Andrew Kirkaldy, Oliver Turvey and Álvaro Parente to race the 12C GT3 in 2011 as McLaren GT prepares to deliver a race car of unrivaled quality to privateer teams in 2012

• New video available at www.youtube.com / mclarenautomotivetv: The MP4-12C GT3 road car and its equivalent in action

Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren Group Chief Executive Officer said: “McLaren has racing in its blood and it was a natural step to take our MP4-12C road car and turn it into the most reliable, efficient and easy to drive GT3 car. Every car on the grid will of its performances have balanced by race rules, meaning our objective must be to select a technical specification That ensures any driver is Able to access the 12C GT3′s performance limits with ease.

“We have worked with CRS Racing to Ensure the 12C’s design and development program is as close as possible to one McLaren Racing Would employ in developing a Formula 1 car. The team at CRS is well qualified to shape decisions in this area as They have an outstanding record in GT3 racing cars, and understand what is required to be successful in. That level of competitive motorsport.

“In return, McLaren Racing is Able to bring new levels of technology to GT3 racing. No other GT3 car in 2012 will from be supplied with a road-car carbon chassis, or a steering wheel and other associated technology from a Formula 1 car.

“The 12C GT3 will from be supplied with the 12C’s carbon MonoCell And The Same steering wheel design employed by Lewis Hamilton in his MP4-24 Formula 1 car. Plus, We Are Working closely with the Formula 1 suppliers, past and present: Akebono, Mobil 1, McLaren Electronic Systems, Ricardo and Michelin, for example. This blend of road cars and Formula 1 technology and experience will from be a great advantage to anyone racing a 12C GT3 in 2012. “

McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Technical Specification

Width (mm) 1995mm
Height (mm) 1145mm
Wheelbase (mm) 2670mm

Fuel tank capacity 120 liters
Chassis / body MonoCell McLaren carbon fiber with aluminum front and rear frames and bespoke carbon body panels
Aerodynamics Front and rear diffuser, front splitter, dive planes and adjustable rear wing.
Transmission 6 speed sequential using actuation via steering wheel mounted paddles
Limited slip differential with a range of ramps and adjustable pre-load.
Wet sump hydraulically operated clutch Sintered
Driveshafts with tripod joints
Engine type twin-turbo V8 McLaren M838T
Engine 3.8L capacity
Bore x Stroke 93 x 69.9
Max. Engine speed to 7500rpm Limited
Cylinder block Cast aluminum , 90 deg V-angle, dry sump scavenge, Nikasil coated liners

Crankshaft Forged steel flat plane
Pistons Forged aluminium
Conrods Forged steel
Cylinder head Cast aluminium with plastic composite cam covers, inlet & exhaust variable cam timing
Valvetrain 32V with 40 deg variable cam timing on intake & exhaust. Low mass with sliding contact end pivoted pinger followers, single variable rate springs and hollow cast chilled iron camshafts
Intake system Two water/air charge air coolers. Plastic composite plenum.
Exhaust system Cast stainless steel exhaust manifold with compact MHI fixed geometry turbo chargers. 970 deg C turbine inlet temperature.
Fuel system Returnless fuel rail with twin fuel tank mounted pumps and twin spray injectors
Engine management MESL TAG400 ECU & CIU 100
Interfacing with Bosch ABS and Shiftec control units
Wiring harness Modular installation: Engine, chassis, fuel cell
Lubrication MOBIL1: engine and transmission

Cooling Air/water heat exchangers for engine water and charge air cooling combined with water/oil heat exchangers for engine, transmission & PAS.
Front axle SKF integrated axles with handed single wheel retaining nut
Rear axle SKF integrated axles with handed single wheel retaining nut
Front suspension Double wishbone adjustable for ride height camber and toe
Rear suspension Double wishbone adjustable for ride height camber and toe
Dampers Coil over Multimatic dampers with DSSV technology with independent bump and rebound adjustment
Front brake system Akebono 6 piston monoblock calliper
378Ø x 36mm Iron ventilated disc
Rear brake system Akebono 4 piston monoblock calliper
355Ø x 32mm iron ventilated disc
Steering Electro-hydraulic PAS
Wheels Forged Aluminium
Front 12” x 18”

Rear 13” x 18”
MESL TPS system compatible
Cockpit electronics Multifunction steering wheel with integrated driver display
Central switch panel with systems display screen
Steering wheel Derived from MP4-24 Formula 1 wheel retaining integrated driver display, paddle shift and switches

* Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile

** Dry weight with lightweight options

*** McLaren Automotive defines the ‘core’ sector of the high performance sports car market as those cars price approach from £ 125,000 – £ 175,000 in the UK

McLaren Racing Pedigree

Is defined by winning the race in a wide range of global racing championship, McLaren is the most successful motor racing tea

m in history. No other racing team that has won the “crown three ‘of Le Mans (on debut), Indy 500 (three victories) and the Formula 1 World Championship. In the North American race series Can-Am McLaren won 43 of 71 races, taking five titles between 1966 and 1972.
In Formula 1, McLaren has won 170 races: better than one in four races in which has been competing since 1966, and more race wins per season than rivals compete (3.75). This has resulted in eight wins ‘Championships and 12 Drivers’ Championship Constructors. influence McLaren and Ron Dennis’ in Formula 1 has been real. In 1981 (first season as team principal Dennis), McLaren MP4 / 1 became the first winner of a race car that never display-based carbon fiber monocoque chassis.
This revolutionary design, inspired by aerospace technology, has since become a standard chassis structure for team racing: lightweight, safe, strong, and dimensionally predictable.

McLaren Road Car Heritage

1993 – 1997: McLaren F1: McLaren F1, and in many eyes fixed, definite sports car: The first road car with carbon fiber construction.
Only 106 examples of this iconic supercar made (72 street cars, 28 race cars, six prototype), but the recent auction prices for the standard F1 road car F1s between £ 2 – £ 2,500,000 price, almost five times the original retail : appreciation unheard of in modern cars. It was also the last car the right way to win Le Mans and the first to achieve this feat since the 60′s.

2003 – 2009: Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren: SLR is organized and arranged by a Mercedes-Benz as cars, powerful sports tour before it is presented to McLaren Automotive to engineer, develop and produce. SLR was prodigiously fast, exclusive and technological tour de force. With more than 2,100 examples produced, the SLR supercar end became the most successful ever made, selling nearly twice as much carbon as the next best-selling cars based (Porsche Carrera GT).
2011 -: McLaren MP4-12C: 12C-based carbon that went on sale globally from June 2011 to 35 premium retailers experienced in all areas. Up to 1000 cars will be built in the first year, hand-built at McLaren’s new £ 40 million Production Center that is connected to the Formula 1 McLaren headquarters in Woking, England. 12C is the first in a range of high-performance sports car from McLaren.

McLaren F1 at Le Mans

1995: with F1 GTR driven by JJLehto, Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya, McLaren win on debut; four other F1s finished 3, 4, 5 and 13.
1996: six F1 GTR LM ‘is over 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11.
1997: two ‘longtail finished 2 and 3.
1998: a ‘longtail’ finished fourth, with two drawn after the accident.

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