Take a peek into the secret chamber where the 968bhp track-only racers are stored and never go home with their owners.
Earlier this year McLaren has given a peek into its »workshop of wonders«. With that I mean its private P1 GTR facility built especially for keeping and maintaining the exclusive hypercars for their owners. The McLaren P1 GTR workshop is in Woking, England, near McLaren Special Operations and the McLaren GT team.
The track-only vehicle uses a 3.8-litre twin-turbo hybrid V8, similar to the one used in the road version of McLaren P1 but with some upgrades, which turned the power up to 986bhp, weight some 330lbs less then road version and equipped with all of the racing-car trimmings, such as a huge rear wing and other aerodynamic details.
McLaren built the P1 GTR not just as an opportunity to offer customers and current owners something a bit more hardcore and extreme, but also to mark the 20 year anniversary since it won Le Mans with an F1 GTR in 1995. Many of those paint jobs you see on the pictures bellow are mostly tribute liveries to the cars that competed in the 90’s Le Mans series.
McLaren also converted five P1 GTRs into road legal P1 LM version for the public to buy. We wrote about McLaren P1 LM not long ago.
The so called “Driver Programme” which comes with the car includes owners being offered a custom made livery as well as custom made racing suits and helmets and a proper seat fitting. Every year, each GTR owner is also invited to six McLaren hosted events at various circuits around the world.
Pretty exclusive right? Of course the whole hypercar programme is designed for the most wealthiest and prominent customers. The programme offers all the racing driver trimmings, including fitness trainers and driver coaches. Ferrari offers similar service with its FXXK and hyper-exclusive “Corse Clienti” programme for its ex-F1 cars but I’ll wrote about that some other day.
What sort of livery would you choose for your McLaren P1 GTR? Given that McLaren will only build 35 of them, each priced at nearly $3 million and almost all of them already built by now, it’s a choice few of us will ever have to make.
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