McLaren started the 1973 Formula One season with drivers Denny Hulme and Peter Revson piloting the soon to be obsolete M19 while they waited for the highly anticipated and developed M23. By the third round of the year Hulme was equipped with the first chassis and for the following round both drivers had what was to be McLaren’s best Grand Prix car to date at their disposal. Little did they or indeed anyone know how successful the M23 would be but in that first year Hulme won in Sweden while Revson took his maiden victory at the British Grand Prix and what was to be his final victory at the Canadian Grand Prix.
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