Woking, Surrey - This is the final ‘production’ form of the 735kW track-only McLaren P1 GTR, ready for its world premiere on 3 March at the Geneva motor show, showing only minor changes from the concept shown just six months ago at Pebble Beach.
There's a huge rear wing flying 400mm above the tail, front track is 80mm wider and ride height 50mm lower on centre-locking 19-inch rims shod with Pirelli slicks.
The lightweight 3.2mm windscreen from the P1 road car has been retained, the rest of the windows are now polycarbonate, and the glass roof has been replaced with carbon fibre, for a weight saving of 50kg.
UPRATED POWERTRAIN
McLaren's proven 3.8-litre biturbo V8 has been tweaked to deliver 588kW and combined with a lightweight 147kW electric motor, to deliver a total of 735kW, driving via an uprated powertrain that's had some of its street-orientated features deleted to save weight.
The show car's livery echoes that of the McLaren F1 GTR that took third in the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours, and those 'gentleman drivers' who've paid exorbitant sums to do McLaren's development work for it will get to drive their 'production' GTRs at Catalunya later this year, after attending a seat fitting and training session, including time in the simulator, in the McLaren racing department at Woking.