Instead, he started penning the framework for a roadgoing, three-seat super sportscar that would later become the McLaren F1 ... latter of which was testing a 3.5-liter V-12 in a Lotus chassis ...

Barnard behind the wheel of the McLaren Gen 3 Evo car during the Jarama test ... only young driver to move across from the F1 single-seater ladder and on to the Formula E grid this season ...

taking the total up to 626 bhp and lowering the 0-62 mph sprint time by a tenth of a second to 3.2 seconds. That’s the same as the mighty, three-seater McLaren F1, and is aided by a 10kg ...