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When Mike Skinner's NASCAR Toyota Tundra One-Upped a McLaren P1 at Goodwood

Mike Skinner's 2016 Goodwood run 1 photo
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Given the tons of hate NASCAR machines get from aficionados who prefer more sophisticated forms of motorsport, the intensity of this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed battle, which saw Mike Skinner's NASCAR Toyota Tundra battling a pair of McLaren P1s, only goes higher.
The 1995 Camping World Truck Series champion wrestled his truck across the 1.12-mile course, completing the Hillclimb run in 50.44 seconds. You can check out the racing driver's adventure in the piece of footage at the bottom of the page.

And since the clip mixes the in-car view with an exterior take on the matter, you'll be able to get a good taste of just how extreme the wrestling action was - it almost seemed like the blue collar NASCAR machine wanted to oversteer its way through every corner.

The clip also offers us a timing comparison between the Toyota racecar and the McLaren P1, with Tundra topping the Woking halo car. The only problem was that the battle was held on the Mac's home turn, which meant the P1 could turn to its big brother, the P1 LM.

Developed as the ultimate incarnation of the P1, the LM is an evolution of the street-legal P1 GTR racecar. The P1 LM was deployed at this year's Festival of Speed wit the aim of setting a new record for road-legal machines, which it did. Manhandled by Indy 500 winner Kenny Brack, the P1 LM completed the task in 47.07s, thus avenging its "standard" sibling.

Nevertheless, the P1 LM also got its insane-aero rear end kicked, with a Subaru Impreza WRX STI time attack racecar driven by Olly Clark, the son of the late British rally legend Roger Clark, covering the course in 46.29.

However, in the end, everybody was happy. The Scooby climbed to the podium for the second year in a row, the P1 LM grabbed second place and aced the record mentioned above, while the NASAR Toyota Tundra completed the podium, while winning its class for the third year in a row. And they all hooned happily ever after.

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