British sportscar manufacturer McLaren will showcase a selection of legendary cars from the company’s heritage collection at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, as part of the automaker’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
Besides showing some of their classic Can-Am racers that dominated the competition in the late 1960s and early 1970s, McLaren will also introduce the 12C GT Can-Am Edition, a fast and powerful machine that’s set to “thrill crowds” while running up the Goodwood Hill.
Built in only 30 examples at £375,000 each, the 12C GT Can-Am Edition pays tribute to Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme who successfully raced a series of McLaren models in the Can-Am series, claiming four consecutive championships between them for Bruce McLaren Racing from 1967 through 1970.
“This latest project from McLaren GT is the rawest, most track-focused model built by McLaren Group’s race car manufacturing arm, to-date. Like the cars with which it shares the famous motorsport badge, the 12C GT Can-Am Edition features a powerful V8 engine, with the new model fitted with an unrestricted version of the 3.8-litre twin-turbo powerplant in the 12C GT3. Further modifications over the race-winning 12C GT3 include an optimised aerodynamics package, to provide even greater levels of downforce, and a passenger seat, to allow the thrills of this latest track car to be shared,” McLaren revealed in a press release.
Among the classics brought by McLaren at Goodwood, racing enthusiasts will be able to admire a M8D racecar which was driven to victory by Denny Hulme in the 1970 season. In all, McLaren won five Can-Am titles between 1967 and 1971, the last one being claimed by Peter Revson.
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