REBIRTH
PORTRAIT BY TIM MCDONAGH IT WAS 27 YEARS AGO this month that the cover of Road & Track first featured the McLaren F1, a sneak peek into what was to come from the world of cars in 1994. It shared the cover with the Dodge Neon, the new Mustang, a modified Corvette, and what we imagined the Z3, BMW’s brand-new roadster, would look like. All of these cars were important (okay, maybe not the modified Corvette), but none of them became part of the R&T fabric like the F1. The McLaren became our gold standard, particularly after we again featured it on our December 1997 cover, this time with a full instrumented test. It obliterated most of our metrics, our own Peter Egan saying the F1 was “a real driver’s…