This car didn't take part in any of the races at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000, but the meeting celebrated 50 years of Formula One racing and it was in a display of Formula One cars and also participated in a series of track demonstrations.
It's a 1976 McLaren M23, the car with which James Hunt won the 1976 World Drivers' Championship. The McLaren M23 had a 2,993 V8 Ford Cosworth engine and was raced by the McLaren team for five seasons from 1973, Emerson Fittipaldi winning the World Drivers' Championship in 1974, as well as finishing in second place in both 1973 and 1975. This photograph shows Lorina McLaughlin leaving the pit lane in the car on one of the demonstration runs.
On 11 April 2017 I showed two photographs of the car at the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in 2004.
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