Join us for a stroll down McLaren's Boulevarde

McLaren's famous spaceship -style Technology Centre is home not just to the current F1 factory but also to a cavalcade of classic McLaren cars from the past fifty years.

A key part of the MTC's architecture is full height glass lake frontage that lights up what the company calls The Boulevarde.

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Moving along you'll see the classic "Thursday" car - only seen in Thursday practice because the front-wing-on-struts quickly gained the name "Guillotine" for the obvious reasons. You'll also see McLaren's first IndyCar resplendent in Gatorade livery.

James Hunt's red 5 is there, and 80's turbo cars - including one of Ayrton Senna's. Another car, his 1992 machine, bears the mark of a squashed Sonic the Hedgehog (or something that looks enough not like Sonic to avoid litigation). Sega sponsored then title-rival Williams, so when Senna beat them, squished Sonic got stuck on the tub like a WWI fighter ace would stamp a Luftwaffe symbol on his kite after downing Gerry.

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Lined up in front of the heritage F1 bay - where older McLarens are fettled before or after demonstration runs - is a trio of McLaren F1s. The first is the Le Mans-winning F1, which won first time out, beating all-comers. Next to it is a customer's F1 GTR and the third is the classy Gulf-liveried longtail, the inspiration for today's LT designation for the roadgoing 675LT.

Closer still to the F1 bays and there's a series of 90s F1 cars, driven by Coulthard and Hakkinen to glory and proudly facing them are a series of more recent F1 cars, including the wild 2007 and 2008 cars with the whackiest aero devices seen before the party was cut short by the FIA.

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Past the F1 bay - which we couldn't photograph for obvious reasons, complete with engine-less, cover-less cars run by Alonso and Vandoorne - and the trophies. Oh, my, the trophies, stacked along the right-hand walls, and just one of them a replica. They're all there to remind the team what they're there for.

The Boulevarde is a walk that dreams are made of.

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