Car · McLaren · 1974
McLaren M23B
The M23 won titles three years apart with two different drivers and was still scoring points in its sixth season. Hunt's 1976 championship in it - won by a point after Lauda's Nürburgring crash and withdrawal at a flooded Fuji - is the season most people who do not follow the sport have still heard of.
- Seasons
- 1974
- Entries
- 45
- Wins
- 4
- Poles
- 2
- Fastest laps
- 1
- Constructors' titles
- 1
- Drivers' titles
- 2
One of the design family that has a specified page of its own.
Why it mattered
The idea. A deformable-structure chassis built to the new 1973 safety rules, developed for six years without ever being replaced
What it did. 83 races, 16 wins, 14 poles. Fittipaldi's 1974 title and McLaren's first constructors' championship, then Hunt's 1976 title.
- Designers
- Gordon Coppuck, John Barnard, Dave Quill
- Supersedes
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- Design life
- 1973–1978
- Confidence
- high
Specification
- Chassis
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- Front suspension
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- Rear suspension
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- Brakes
- disc
- Gearbox
- —
- Gears
- —
- Tyres
- Goodyear
- Fuel
- —
- Engine
- Ford Cosworth DFV V8
- Configuration
- 90-degree V8
- Capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Aspiration
- naturally aspirated
- Power
- —
- Power note
- —
- Weight
- —
- Wheelbase
- —
- Track, front
- —
- Track, rear
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A blank is a figure nobody published for this car. Where several teams quote the same number in a season it is usually the rule they were all built to rather than a measurement, so it is kept with the regulation limits instead of here.
Seasons that cannot be attributed 2
Every entry 45 entries
Show all 45 entriesShow the first 10, Every entry
Where this comes from
- Constructor
- McLaren
- Predecessor
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- Successor
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- Races (published)
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- Wins (published)
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- Poles (published)
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- Confidence
- reference
- Specification source
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- Register source
- https://github.com/f1db/f1db