McLaren unwrapped the track-only P1 GTR at Pebble Beach.
In 1995, McLaren launched the F1 GTR. The car promptly went on to win at Le Mans and rather quickly joined the stupid-money parade of auctionable collectibles. Given that Pebble Beach is the ground zero for automotive bid-’em-up syndrome, it only made sense to launch the new P1 GTR here.
And, well, the track-only GTR is certainly a thing. Judicious fiddling with the electric and internal-combustion powerplants results in combined power figures of 1000 Pferdestärke and 1000 newton-meters of torque. Translated into Yankee stump-pullerese, that’s 986 horsepower and 738 lb-ft. That puts it 83 horsepower up on a car about which we wrote, “You’d have to have lived a life in either Top Fuel dragsters or carrier-based fighter planes to grow blasé about this level of acceleration.”
The interior is stripped down to the carbon for track use, and the steering wheel cribs liberally from the unit gripped by Jenson Button in the heat of battle. The rear looks gutted compared to the road car, too, with a big, honking fixed wing, visible extractor fans, and two flat-black pipes suitable for use as potato guns. Or suicide bongs.
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· McLaren F1 Supercar Archived Road Test
· 2014 McLaren P1 Instrumented Test
· 2014 Pebble Beach Weekend: News, Debuts, Photos, and Coverage of Every Major Event
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If you desire one, you’d best already have a P1 in the driveway, as the track cars will be sold only to roadgoing P1 owners. McLaren will hang onto it for you if you’d like, bringing it out to single-marque race events at Formula 1 circuits around the world, starting in 2015. Purchase also gains you entreé into McLaren’s exclusive driver-training program, with simulator time, diet, and exercise as part of the package. If you prefer to park it in the living room and stare at it, that’s all right with the boys and girls in Woking, as well. And, if in 20 years you feel like offloading it at Pebble Beach, McLaren is as hopeful as you are that the resale value winds up as wonderfully perverse as that of their first automobile to wear the GTR badge. Reported by Car and Driver 15 hours ago.
In 1995, McLaren launched the F1 GTR. The car promptly went on to win at Le Mans and rather quickly joined the stupid-money parade of auctionable collectibles. Given that Pebble Beach is the ground zero for automotive bid-’em-up syndrome, it only made sense to launch the new P1 GTR here.
And, well, the track-only GTR is certainly a thing. Judicious fiddling with the electric and internal-combustion powerplants results in combined power figures of 1000 Pferdestärke and 1000 newton-meters of torque. Translated into Yankee stump-pullerese, that’s 986 horsepower and 738 lb-ft. That puts it 83 horsepower up on a car about which we wrote, “You’d have to have lived a life in either Top Fuel dragsters or carrier-based fighter planes to grow blasé about this level of acceleration.”
The interior is stripped down to the carbon for track use, and the steering wheel cribs liberally from the unit gripped by Jenson Button in the heat of battle. The rear looks gutted compared to the road car, too, with a big, honking fixed wing, visible extractor fans, and two flat-black pipes suitable for use as potato guns. Or suicide bongs.
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· McLaren F1 Supercar Archived Road Test
· 2014 McLaren P1 Instrumented Test
· 2014 Pebble Beach Weekend: News, Debuts, Photos, and Coverage of Every Major Event
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If you desire one, you’d best already have a P1 in the driveway, as the track cars will be sold only to roadgoing P1 owners. McLaren will hang onto it for you if you’d like, bringing it out to single-marque race events at Formula 1 circuits around the world, starting in 2015. Purchase also gains you entreé into McLaren’s exclusive driver-training program, with simulator time, diet, and exercise as part of the package. If you prefer to park it in the living room and stare at it, that’s all right with the boys and girls in Woking, as well. And, if in 20 years you feel like offloading it at Pebble Beach, McLaren is as hopeful as you are that the resale value winds up as wonderfully perverse as that of their first automobile to wear the GTR badge. Reported by Car and Driver 15 hours ago.