"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
01/19/2014 at 16:52 • Filed to: McLaren P1, Hypercar, AutoCar, OppositeLock
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"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
01/19/2014 at 16:52 • Filed to: McLaren P1, Hypercar, AutoCar, OppositeLock | 0
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The McLaren P1 is the second of this era's hypercars to make the rounds of the auto journalists, though the benefit for the McLaren enterprise will only result in brand PR as all of the 375 examples have already been sold.
Expect a video to accompany the article on a later date (to be found on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ), but for now we will have to get by on Steve Sutcliffe's brief article.
The first time I pedal it hard out of a corner, the rear tyres light up and the thing takes me completely by surprise. I actually think I'm about to turn it right round. But then the TC does its business and saves me, and after that first hit, after that first glimpse into the monster's eyes, I learn to regard the P1 in a very different light indeed.
This is not, I rapidly conclude, a Big Daddy version of the 12C. It's a completely different animal. One that will chew you up, take you for a death roll for a while, then spit you back from whence you came. And that's in Normal mode.
The most intriguing part of the article, that will certainly reignite the motoring internet, is the notion that the McLaren P1 is "a fair bit quicker" around the Nurburgring Nordschleife than the rumored 6 minutes and 47 seconds.
According to the rumour mill that is the internet the number of 6min 47sec keeps cropping up. But according to a McLaren insider I spoke to who knows rather more about the P1's capabilities than any armchair expert ever could, the actual time is "a fair bit quicker than that." As in six minutes 30 something. Either way, the P1 is, until Ferrari unleashes the LaFerrari at the Green Hell, king of the 'Ring. For the time being.
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