1976 McLaren M23D Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8

1976 McLaren M23D Ford in Formula 1 - Febbre della Velocità, Documentary, 1978

Class: Cars, Racecar — Model origin:

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Author	Message
moff ◊ 2018-05-07 10:14
50sParis ◊ 2018-05-07 17:05	M23?
Weasel1984 ◊ 2018-05-08 17:22	IMO these intakes above driver's head are strange - less usual judging by the period pics of M23s (and M26s too).
dsl ◊ 2018-05-08 17:46	Indy car??
moff ◊ 2018-05-08 17:55	Weasel1984 wrote IMO these intakes above driver's head are strange - less usual judging by the period pics of M23s (and M26s too). That lone, off-centered "1" is also pretty weird.
Weasel1984 ◊ 2018-05-08 23:03	Looks like part of "11". I quickly looked through Indy McLarens from the years 1974-78 - nothing similar there, but hard to say I saw enough many pics to completly exclude this trace.
dsl ◊ 2019-07-28 18:40	I think it's Hunt's M23 #11 in 1976, with the strange vents probably a testing format - compare later style from 1976 Japanese GP.