McLaren's top 10 racers
McLaren has produced many great cars over its first half-century - from F1 to Can-Am to IndyCar to Le Mans racers - but which were its finest? GARY WATKINS is your guide
What's your favourite McLaren? The dominant MP4/4 of 1988, the F1 GTR that helped revive GT racing in the mid-1990s, or perhaps something older?
As part of our McLaren at 50 celebration, we decided to pick out the British marque's 10 best cars.
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Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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