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McLaren’s secret extra pedal was so good F1 banned it—and it changed how every modern car corners

In the late 1990s, Formula 1 was a playground for engineers willing to bend the rules just enough to find an edge, and ...
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McLaren’s outlawed extra pedal was so genius F1 banned it and road cars copied it

McLaren’s third pedal was a tiny piece of hardware that rewrote how a Formula 1 car could turn, then vanished almost as quickly as rivals and regulators understood what it was doing. By allowing the ...