PfS students from Bracken Leas Primary were incredibly fortunate to take a look around the McLaren pit garage at Silverstone today. The driving rain and gale force winds meant that the McLaren team could not get out on the track but when they saw us on our track tour, they kindly invited us see what they were getting up to. It was easily one of my highlights of my time at Silverstone and the students were mightily impressed as well. The McLaren is simply beautiful but we were also given an insight into how much skilled manpower, technology and effort it takes to translate that beauty into raw speed.
Paul Di Resta was the driver on hand to test the McLaren today and it must have been quite frustrating for him not to be able to drive the racer’s ultimate dream machine. In fact I know it was frustrating because he has written about it on his website here. I hope he gets his chance tomorrow!
