The McLaren Senna GTR Is A £1 Million Track-Only Aero Fest
The McLaren Senna isn’t a car for the faint hearted. It produces nearly 800bhp from its twin-turbo V8, weighs just 1198kg, has a race car-esque suspension setup and generates an astonishing 800kg of downforce. But, this is not the Senna’s final form: McLaren has also cooked up a GTR version.
Most of the car has been left alone - it was already bonkers enough - but what has been changed is significant. Firstly, the tyres: since this Senna isn’t a road car, it can wear Pirelli Slick tyres. The double wishbone suspension as been revised, too.
Power from the 4.0-litre engine has been bumped to “at least” 814bhp, and it now sends its power rewards via a “race-style transmission.” And finally, the aero package is even more aggressive than the road car’s thanks in part to a much larger front splitter and a bigger rear diffuser which juts out of the back of the car considerably further than before.
The result? 1000kg of downforce. Yep, a whole tonne of lift-reduction. Also, we can’t help but think the added aero anger and the livery of the Geneva show car makes the Senna’s awkward, function-led proportions just work, somehow.
Woking says that due to the changes made, the GTR will be capable of clocking “the quickest McLaren circuit lap times outside Formula 1.” Although we do feel compelled to point out that Fernando Alonso’s latest F1 machine isn’t going all that fast right now…
75 of these GTRs will be built as a follow-up to the 500 road cars, the latter batch having sold out before the Senna even launched.
The price for this version? £1 million a pop…
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Comments
Is it just me or is that the best looking McLaren ever since the f1
I think it has some awesome aesthetics, the rear design for example but I hesitate to call it beautiful from a design standpoint, more from a scientific and functional standpoint.
You aren’t the only one…Plus I always respected Mclaren when they gave importance to function over form many times…Just a true sacrifice for a company about performance…It’s truly amazing in thw world of car industry with aspects such as performance…There’s more to come in the future and i’m hyped…
I still don’t like it.
I would like to b- oh wait its already sold out.
They really are going that extra mile
by like 2020 we would have a wang bigger than a highway
Waiting for the ITZ UWGLY, smh its about function over form and I don’t think you would mind buying one of these if you were offered one.
Infact I would accept the offer, sell it, and buy all of my dream cars.
I guarantee you it will turn up on the used car market with no milage for at least €5 million because it’s 2010s and flipping rare exotic cars is the norm. 😉😞
No. Being a race car, used or not, the resale price will be high af and mclaren interest is to show the world how mad their engeeners can be. I don’t really know how it turned out for the p1 gtr, but this one being advertised as the fastest mclaren i hope will be driven all around the world. I know that i’m dreaming here, but what a treat it would be if they were aligned the same day Ferrari does it corse client thing on spa
“How do we make the Senna faster?”
“idk lol, just stick an ironing board under it”
Insanity and its finest. Love it
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