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Written by Rowan Horncastle
Package holidays normally consist of cheap flights to Benidorm, a sweaty half-board villa and complimentary drinks on arrival. But then there"s a McLaren package holiday. One where you travel between New Zealand"s gorgeous North and South Islands in Woking"s finest offspring, while staying in five-star accommodation and gorging on gourmet food. Feel that? Yeah, that"s your jealousy gland going into overdrive.The eight-day tour happened recently, and having looked through the pictures above, makes us wish we tried a bit harder at school. Everything from mighty Nineties F1s, early 12Cs to the current lineage of incredible supercars (570S, 675LT and stunning P1) all descended on downtown Auckland Bruce McLaren"s hometown for a black-tie dinner before hitting the road.First stop was a track day at the new Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. It"s an interesting circuit set within a volcanic landscape with fast, sweeping corners to get the most out of the cars. Then it was on to Hawkes Bay for some wine tasting before loading up onto a ferry and across Cook Strait to the South Island.After some stargazing at Lake Tekapo, there was a stop for some salmon fishing and a helicopter trip to Minaret Station for din-dins on a glacier. You can imagine how the Instagram likes would be racking up by this point.But it doesn"t end there, as it was onto another track day this time at Highlands Motorsport Park before a final blast to Glenorchy for either a round of golf or bungee jumping. Y"know, just in case the event wasn"t epic enough for you already.It wasn"t without incident, though. During the event, a McLaren F1 fell off the multi-million pound conga line and into a ditch on the Glenorchy-Queenstown Road near Closeburn. Luckily, no one was hurt in the accident. Well, apart from the owner"s wallet that is. As we know the 242mph the fastest nat-asp car ever supercar isn"t cheap to repair. Just ask Rowan Atkinson. Even so, it looks like one hell of a week to remember. And filled our jealousy quota for the rest of the week.So if you want a slice of the action, click through the gallery above. As you can imagine, there"s quite a few McLarens. But also a bird.
Date written: 8 Dec 2016
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ID: 6062
Package holidays normally consist of cheap flights to Benidorm, a sweaty half-board villa and complimentary drinks on arrival. But then there"s a McLaren package holiday. One where you travel between New Zealand"s gorgeous North and South Islands in Woking"s finest offspring, while staying in five-star accommodation and gorging on gourmet food. Feel that? Yeah, that"s your jealousy gland going into overdrive.The eight-day tour happened recently, and having looked through the pictures above, makes us wish we tried a bit harder at school. Everything from mighty Nineties F1s, early 12Cs to the current lineage of incredible supercars (570S, 675LT and stunning P1) all descended on downtown Auckland Bruce McLaren"s hometown for a black-tie dinner before hitting the road.First stop was a track day at the new Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. It"s an interesting circuit set within a volcanic landscape with fast, sweeping corners to get the most out of the cars. Then it was on to Hawkes Bay for some wine tasting before loading up onto a ferry and across Cook Strait to the South Island.After some stargazing at Lake Tekapo, there was a stop for some salmon fishing and a helicopter trip to Minaret Station for din-dins on a glacier. You can imagine how the Instagram likes would be racking up by this point.But it doesn"t end there, as it was onto another track day this time at Highlands Motorsport Park before a final blast to Glenorchy for either a round of golf or bungee jumping. Y"know, just in case the event wasn"t epic enough for you already.It wasn"t without incident, though. During the event, a McLaren F1 fell off the multi-million pound conga line and into a ditch on the Glenorchy-Queenstown Road near Closeburn. Luckily, no one was hurt in the accident. Well, apart from the owner"s wallet that is. As we know the 242mph the fastest nat-asp car ever supercar isn"t cheap to repair. Just ask Rowan Atkinson. Even so, it looks like one hell of a week to remember. And filled our jealousy quota for the rest of the week.So if you want a slice of the action, click through the gallery above. As you can imagine, there"s quite a few McLarens. But also a bird.
Date written: 8 Dec 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6062
