Driving Ambition: The Official Inside Story of the McLaren F1 – LIMITED EDITION

This history of the McLaren F1 explains how the McLaren Cars’ team pursued their quest for perfection to create the fastest road car in the world – setting the record at 240.1mph in 1998. The book has been created with the full support and involvement of McLaren Cars.

‘The phrase “warts and all” has no place in the clinical, ordered world of TAG/McLaren. It holds its cards closer to its chest closer that a seasoned poker player, which makes the publication of Driving Ambition all the more remarkable…Many of the books that arrive at the TG office are flimsy affairs. But in Driving Ambition you get the full story behind the development of one of the greatest and most written about road cars ever. I doubt it will happen again.’ — Top Gear, December 1999

‘This book does the near impossible by living up to the McLaren F1’s awesome reputation. Ultimate car gets ultimate book…Written by Doug Nye – the man who wrote the original F1 sales brochure – with help from Messrs Murray and Dennis, it is simply definitive. Starting with the dream-like sketches in young Murray’s college books, taking in the now legendary chat in an airport lounge which hatched the idea, and going through every fractional evolution of the plan which culminated in the greatest road car ever built, it is a fascinating journey.’ — Car magazine, December 1999