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In the M23 was gradually replaced with the M26, the M23's final works outing being Gilles Villeneuve's Formula One debut with the team in a one-off appearance at the British Grand Prix.
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M23 and was
The McLaren M23, designed by Gordon Coppuck, was the team's new car for the 1973 Formula One season.
However, this was actually land left unused for the proposed M23 motorway extension.
The M23 was planned to relieve congestion on the A23 through Streatham, Thornton Heath, Purley and Coulsdon in south London and was originally intended to terminate in Streatham Vale at a junction with the controversial London Ringways Plan's Ringway 2 ( the intended replacement of the South Circular Road ( A205 )).
The M23 plan was gradually scaled back further to omit the section across Mitcham Common and end the motorway at an unsuitable location on Croydon Road ( A232 ) before the plan was postponed indefinitely.
The next major change to Pease Pottage was the opening of the M23 motorway in 1975 which continued as the A23 road, a two lane dual carriageway south to Handcross with the houses of Tilgate Row facing onto it.
Also in the 1970s the area to the east between the Balcombe Road and the M23 motorway was developed and other areas were infilled.
The M23 was a dark red 3-door van concept based on the saloon rather than the existing 3-door coupé.
Gossops Green is on the A23 trunk road which was the main London to Brighton route before the M23 motorway was opened in the 1970s, which by-passed Crawley.
A consortium of builders was formed to develop the site which was to include community facilities and a new junction giving access to the M23.
Emerson Fittipaldi also was an early retirement after making a very slow start in his McLaren M23 and was struck by his team mate Denny Hulme putting out both cars within a lap.
Mike Hailwood was another to crash, having a large accident on the second last lap at Pflanzgarten in his McLaren M23.
The race was won for the second time by Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi driving a McLaren M23.
The race was won by German driver Jochen Mass driving a McLaren M23.
With Emerson Fittipaldi's McLaren M23 retiring with suspension damage, Lauda was able to expand his points lead to 17 points with Reutemann moving back into second place.
Initially the declared winner was Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda driving a Ferrari 312T2 extending his Drivers ' Championship lead to 23 points after first across the line James Hunt had his McLaren M23 disqualified in post-race scruitineering.
A lap down in fourth was the March 761 of Hans-Joachim Stuck with the McLaren M23 of Jochen Mass and the Fittipaldi FD04 of Emerson Fittipaldi completing the point scoring positions.
James Hunt was fifth in his McLaren M23 and Clay Regazzoni climbed into the final point in the second Ferrari late in the race.
The race was won by eventual 1976 world champion James Hunt driving a McLaren M23.
It was won by British driver James Hunt driving a McLaren M23.
M23 and with
This part of Surrey including the adjacent town of Redhill is sometimes grouped together as part of the Gatwick Diamond, M23 corridor or Crawley Urban Area however the area is interspersed with Metropolitan Green Belt land.
* making an end-on connection with the M23 spur to Gatwick Airport the A23 becomes a dual carriageway as it is diverted round the airport ; it rejoins the original route at Lowfield Heath and continues south into Crawley as London Road
* Pease Pottage, southern junction with the M23
Historically, for longer distance movement along the south coast, the M25 in combination with the M2, M20, M23 / A23, A3 / A3 ( M ) and M3 has provided an attractive alternative to the actual south coast route of A259, A27 and M27.
M23 can be found with a modestly sized telescope in the rich starfields of the Sagittarius Milky Way.
Fellow Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi finished second in his McLaren M23 with his German team mate Jochen Mass finishing third.
Lauda won the race in dramatic fashion in a late race dogfight with British driver James Hunt in his Hesketh 308 while West German driver Jochen Mass closed rapidly on the fighting pair in his McLaren M23.
For the opening round of the season, James Hunt took pole position in his McLaren M23 with reigning champion Niki Lauda alongside in his Ferrari ( which set the tone for the season ).
Laffite inherited third with the retirements of James Hunt ( McLaren M23 ) and Depailler.
By the end of the 1973 season the best car on the track was probably the new McLaren M23, a wedge-shaped car following the same concept as the Lotus 72 but with more conventional suspension and up to date aerodynamics.
For 1977, he started the season with a March 761 run by Bob Sparshott and entered under the name of his sponsor, Chesterfield Racing, but switched to a McLaren M23 after three races.
In 1978, he stayed with the McLaren M23 and also tried an M26, but now entered by Sparshott's racing outfit, BS Fabrications.
However, in her absence Trimmer had upgraded to an ex-works McLaren M23 car, and with the aging TS19 Galica stood little chance of being competitive.
He then entered the 1977 British Grand Prix ( failed to pre-qualify ) and the 1978 British Grand Prix ( failed to qualify ), with the Melchester Racing Team, driving a Surtees TS19 and a McLaren M23 respectively.
M23 and M26
* seven fen-meadow / rush-pasture communities ( M22, M23, M24, M26, M25, M27 and M28 )
M23 and Formula
In 1972 Barnard joined the McLaren Formula One team and remained for three years working alongside Gordon Coppuck on the design of the Championship-winning M23 chassis and other McLaren projects, including the team's Indycar.
He fielded a McLaren M23, the same car driven by James Hunt when he won the 1976 Formula One World Championship.
De Villota utilised sponsorship from the banking industry, in which he had previously worked, to race a privately-prepared McLaren M23 in Grands Prix during 1977 and 1978, before turning to the lesser Formula One championship, the Aurora AFX series, which was inaugurated in 1978.
M23 and debut
Villeneuve made his debut at the 1977 British Grand Prix, where he qualified 9th in McLaren's old M23, splitting the regular drivers Hunt and Jochen Mass who were driving newer M26s.
M23 and at
* M23 at Pease Pottage
The northern end of the motorway starts at junction 7 on what is effectively a spur north from junction 7 of the M25 motorway ( junction 8 on the M23 ).
By 1972 the southern section of Ringway 2 had been dropped from the plan, which meant that had the M23 continued north into inner London it would not have had the motorway required at its northern end to distribute traffic to the east and west.
The scale of the four-tier junction between the M23 and the M25, one of only three stack interchanges in the UK, is indicative of the importance attached to the M23 at that time.
The nearest junctions are at Reigate Hill ( M25 J8 ), Hooley ( M23 ) and Godstone ( M25 J7 ).
For example, the A14 has a same-number spur to the A1 ( M ) motorway at Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, the M23 motorway has one to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex and the M25 has one to Heathrow Airport.
It is located at the junction of the M23 and the A23 on the London to Brighton road, where the A264 to Horsham joins.
M23 is at a distance of about 2, 150 light-years away from Earth, its radius is around 15-20 light years.
The company was based at 280 Brooklands Road, Manchester, M23 9HD.
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