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Written by Ollie Kew
McLaren has quite some heritage with its hybrid hypercar. First, there was the McLaren P1. What a machine it was. Then there was the track-only P1 GTR, which many owners had converted for road use by Lanzante, the British racing team who"d supported McLaren"s legendary Le Mans win in 1994. Lanzante liked what they saw with the P1 GTR, so they created a run of five P1 LMs, complete with more power, more downforce, and promptly broke the N rburgring lap record for a road-legal car, with a 6min 43sec lap back in 2017. Then, they drove the car home again. And now, Lanzante has, for a final flourish, given the world another extreme P1 variant. It"s called the P1 GT, and those initials and that green hue are a tribute to the McLaren F1 GT, of which only three were ever made. It was the road-going homologated version of the F1 longtail" developed for endurance racing in the mid-1990s. And what we have here is a longer, wingier P1 to pay a very special tribute.
Date written: 13 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12547
McLaren has quite some heritage with its hybrid hypercar. First, there was the McLaren P1. What a machine it was. Then there was the track-only P1 GTR, which many owners had converted for road use by Lanzante, the British racing team who"d supported McLaren"s legendary Le Mans win in 1994. Lanzante liked what they saw with the P1 GTR, so they created a run of five P1 LMs, complete with more power, more downforce, and promptly broke the N rburgring lap record for a road-legal car, with a 6min 43sec lap back in 2017. Then, they drove the car home again. And now, Lanzante has, for a final flourish, given the world another extreme P1 variant. It"s called the P1 GT, and those initials and that green hue are a tribute to the McLaren F1 GT, of which only three were ever made. It was the road-going homologated version of the F1 longtail" developed for endurance racing in the mid-1990s. And what we have here is a longer, wingier P1 to pay a very special tribute.
Date written: 13 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12547
