The McLaren team has a glorious history, but in the long list of its achievements there is something special: the so-called “Triple Crown”. Only McLaren can be proud that its cars and drivers have won three of the world’s most prestigious races: the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indy 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
This weekend, a race called the Grand Prix of Monaco will take place for the 80th time on the classic urban circuit in the Mediterranean principality. It has been held since 1929, although there was no Formula 1 back then.
On the same day, on the other side of the Atlantic, the famous Indy 500 race will take place at the Indianapolis Oval Circuit and on June 10, the marathon of the 24 hours of Le Mans, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, will start. on the French Sarte circuit.
McLaren decided to celebrate all these events in a special way and made a very nice short film about it. What happens in less than three and a half minutes of screen time is obvious without translation.
We see how a certain elderly gentleman leads his granddaughter to the vault of motorsport relics, finds the right cell there and extracts an object of special value …
In general, see for yourself, it remains only to remember that in 1974 Johnny Rutherford won the Indy 500 in a McLaren 16C / D car. In 1995 Le Mans winners were Yannick Dalmas, Misanori Sekiya and Jay-Jay Lehto, who won the overall standings in a McLaren F1 GTR sports car. And in 1984, Alain Prost achieved the first victory for McLaren in Monaco – there were 15 such victories in the history of the team – four of them were accounted for by Prost, and Ayrton Senna won this race five times.
Source: F1 News
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