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Ray Bellm was joined by James Weaver, one of the best Sportscar drivers of modern era. We also played around with the colour split, running a horizontal orange strip along the bottom of the car during testing, not following the lines, but common sense prevailed and we went back to using the body form…which always gives a more professional look. In many shots, the original Gulf livery appeared too dark, so this is a good example where a company allowed their corporate colours to be tweaked for visibility. The eagle eyed will also note the Blue was a little lighter. I prefer it to my 1995 design, but feel it would have looked even better in Metallic Blue. They had convinced Gulf to drop the Metallic Blue for a solid colour as it was lighter! At the same time we played around with the colours, changing the Silver bottom to the vibrant Orange and using a thicker white keyline. Over at GTC, Ray Bellm and joint owner Michael Caine had been exploring every way to make the car competitive. The GTR lights shown here were much ligher and snapped into place.īy this time, I was back working on the Formula One side, so didn’t have as much of an active role on the F1 GTR, so my tales of 1996 aren’t as detailed as Part 1 of the Retrospective. Anything that was not required was deleted. The car would become McLaren’s development car and is now owned by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd. We needed a livery which jumped out of the page and also shouted McLaren and ’96 F1 GTR. As I explained at the beginning of the month, a new test car, Chassis ‘10R’ was completed and used to announce the 1996 season, although ironically the car still carried some 1995 aerodynamics. McLaren Cars made a number of improvements for the 1996 season with revised aerodynamics, cooling and fuel system. In part 2 of our McLaren F1 GTR Retrospective, we are going to look at the 1996 season.