Does the McLaren F1 handle well?

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Originally Posted by gangajas You can start the discussion after watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFohssyZ2mo I think it is a good hadling car, but the suspesion set up looks too soft. What do you think?

It is definitely soft - designed for the average street with its bumps and stuff and not the track. All it needs to be a killer road/track car is bigger brakes, stiffer rear suspension and perhaps a wing in the rear to add some downforce.

The first generation racing F1 GTRs had the following enhancements to make it track ready:
- Rear wing for more downforce at the rear
- Redesigned diffuser and side skirts
- Removal of rubber bushes at the front
- Replacement of the soft compliant rubber bushes for rigid aluminium ones in the rear
- The road height and camber geometry was not changed to comply with contemporary regulations
- Air restrictor to reduce engine power
- Removal of cats and exhaust silencers
- removal of extraneous trim and equipment
- Enhanced oil cooling but while other cars used a "crash" gearbox, the F1 went with its road going gearbox with synchromesh.
- 18" OZ racing wheels with lower profile tires
- Carbon brakes - curing one of the biggest weaknesses of the car

All in all not that much done to it to take a road legal car and make it a Le Mans and GT Championship winning cars.