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The new McLaren hypercar after the P1!

McLaren Senna

The McLaren Senna has been designed, engineered and developed with single-minded purpose: to be the ultimate McLaren track-concentrated car for the road. Legalised for road use, but not sanitised to suit it, the new Ultimate Series deliberately compromises McLaren's trademark breadth of supercar daily usability; instead it provides the purest connection between driver and car, to deliver the most intense circuit experience of any road McLaren.

The technical recipe is classic McLaren Automotive supercar, a pedigree established and earned in the short time elapsed since the pioneering sports and supercar company was founded in 2010, but taken to another level entirely in the McLaren Senna. Ultra-lightweight construction, with carbon fibre chassis and body panels. Mid-mounted, twin-turbocharged V8 McLaren engine. Rear wheel drive. Sophisticated race-derived suspension that delivers an unparalleled blend of control and dynamic balance. Electro-hydraulic steering that rewards accurate inputs and gives the purest feedback. And two seats - but with absolute focus on the importance of the one that the driver occupies.

The carbon fibre Monocage III chassis that forms the core of the McLaren Senna is a further development of the structure that underpins the McLaren 720S and the strongest monocoque ever built by McLaren for a road-legal vehicle. Every body panel is made from carbon fibre, in line with a relentless focus on the weight of every individual component that has resulted in the McLaren Senna being the lightest road-legal McLaren since the iconic F1 road car, at just 1,198kg*.

With maximum power of 800PS (789bhp), the McLaren Senna enjoys a power-to-weight ratio of 668PS per tonne. This statistic immediately underlines the performance credentials of the newcomer to the McLaren Ultimate Series, a product family introduced with the McLaren P1 that is reserved for the rarest and most extreme McLaren cars.

Unsurprisingly, there are strong echoes in the new McLaren Senna of the incredibly focused philosophy behind the McLaren P1; where the latter was designed to be the best driver's car on road and track, the ambition for the McLaren Senna is for it to be the best road-legal track car, setting a new benchmark for circuit excellence with track prowess absolutely taking precedence.

"The McLaren Senna is a car like no other: the personification of McLaren's motorsport DNA, legalised for road use but designed and developed from the outset to excel on a circuit. Every element of this new Ultimate Series McLaren has an uncompromised performance focus, honed to ensure the purest possible connection between driver and machine and deliver the ultimate track driving experience in the way that only a McLaren can." Mike Flewitt, Chief Executive Officer, McLaren Automotive

Given the famous name that this new McLaren bears, its unrivalled extreme performance and dynamic excellence should be no surprise. The legendary Formula 1 racing driver was renowned for his exceptional powers of concentration and single-minded focus on being the best on the track. The McLaren Senna driver is hardwired into the dynamic experience the car delivers. Their connection to the car comes through the steering wheel, the pedals and the seat. Every sensation that comes from driving at speed is precisely communicated, putting the driver in total control.

The indomitable spirit of Ayrton Senna has always been alive at McLaren and the McLaren Senna will further amplify his global legacy and link to the McLaren brand.

https://www.netcarshow.com/mclaren/2019-senna/

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McLaren’s Andy Palmer on the new Senna hypercar

Vehicle line boss reveals what clues the Senna offers for McLaren’s future and why its doors have clear panels

McLaren’s hotly anticipated P15 hypercar has now been revealed. It’s name? The Senna.

We speak to McLaren’s vehicle line chief Andy Palmer about the new 789bhp Ultimate Series model. For the full reveal story, click here.

Does this car carry clues to future McLarens?

“We discover things all the time. We’ve made a lot of things lighter and our knowledge of aerodynamics keeps progressing. And our suspension is a development of the P1 set-up. This is a very special car, but there’s still no doubt some of what you see in this car will make it into the next.”

There’s another Ultimate Series model around the corner, right?

“We’ll launch BP23 – the central-driving-position three-seater we’ve talked about – in 2019. It’ll go in a very different direction from this one. The price will be £1.6 million plus taxes, we’ll build 106 units as a homage to the F1, and those cars are already three times oversubscribed.”

Tell us about those glazing panels in the Senna’s doors. Don’t they add weight?

“They do, a little. The lightest iteration of the car will have carbon panels there. But the glazed panels you see are made from very thin, very durable Gorilla Glass. The extra view of the road they give is amazing. I can’t think why we didn’t do it before.”

Did McLaren do a deal to use the Senna name?

“We have strong links with the Senna Foundation, run by Ayrton’s family, which, I understand, works to help underprivileged children in Brazil. I believe there’s a kind of royalty connection.”

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/mclaren’s-andy-palmer-new-senna-hypercar
 
McLaren Senna revealed: 'brutal' track-focused hypercar produces 789bhp
£750,000 Ultimate Series model weighs 1198kg dry; it produces 660bhp per tonne

Five years on from its rule-breaking P1 hypercar, McLaren has unveiled a second member of its range-topping Ultimate Series, an “ultimate road-legal track car”, and given it the name of the grand prix team’s greatest champion, Ayrton Senna.

Revealed at an exclusive launch in London last week, the new £750,000, 789bhp McLaren Senna is the first model from Woking to have styling described by its creators as “brutal” and “unforgiving”.

The car’s unique looks result largely from the extreme active aerodynamics that sprout from its basic teardrop shape: a huge rear wing and front splitter (both with active elements) plus straight flanks, exotically shaped wheel arches, air-gulping scoops and inlets, and more subtle air dams and strakes.

According to Ultimate Series vehicle line boss Andy Palmer, the Senna’s engineering and design team spent two years adapting McLaren’s now familiar recipe of carbonfibre chassis and panels, compact, mid-mounted twin-turbo V8, race-bred interconnected suspension and electrohydraulic power steering to create the most extreme McLaren since the company’s modern era began in 2010.

The result is a car with the unprecedentedly low dry weight of 1198kg (undercutting the already light 720S by 220kg). Throw in a 9% power hike for the 4.0-litre engine and the Senna has an eyewatering power-to-weight ratio of 660bhp per tonne. It is not surprising that the factory claims it’ll turn in the quickest lap times of any production McLaren yet.

McLaren won’t be declaring the Senna’s official performance figures until January but it is already clear that the car will have P1-level straight-line performance, with probable 0-60mph acceleration in 2.5sec and a top speed well beyond 200mph.

Palmer is at pains to point out that, despite the spectacular performance, the Senna is not a direct P1 successor.

Unlike other McLarens, which claim a breadth of capability, the Senna focuses squarely on lap times, offering “the purest connection yet between driver and car of any road-legal McLaren”. Besides, whereas the P1 was a hybrid (as half of McLaren’s production cars will be by 2022), the Senna is a solely fossil-fuelled car whose lack of electrification is one reason for its amazingly low weight.

Day-to-day practicality also goes onto the back burner in the Senna. A 720S has decent luggage space and cabin storage, for instance, but this track-day special has deliberately very little. A new roll-over structure behind the driver leaves room, according to Palmer, for only “two helmets, two driving suits and possibly a packet of sandwiches”.

The use of the Senna name is underpinned by the continuing presence at Woking of Bruno Senna, Ayrton’s nephew and a former Formula 1 racer in his own right, as a McLaren Automotive driver and ambassador.

“This is the first project that really connects with Ayrton’s racing spirit and performance,” said Senna. “The McLaren Senna honours my uncle because it is so utterly dedicated to allowing its drivers to be the best they can possibly be.”

The Senna’s core component is a developed version of the 720S’s carbonfibre chassis, now called Monocage III and claimed to be the strongest chassis yet used in a McLaren road car. It still has an aluminium front subframe to carry the car’s front suspension and deformable crash structure, but the rear bulkhead is now formed mostly in carbonfibre, a measure that saves an impressive 18kg.

There is weight saving all over the car as a result of fanatical attention to detail, including reductions in weighty equipment of a kind the keenest drivers don’t need and improvements in technology – such as a patented new-spec carbonfibre recipe that cuts the weight of the Senna’s front wing from 2.2kg to just 650g, with no significant loss of durability.

The engine sits in the new, lowered position of the 720S, but a redesign of its plenum chamber allows a lowering of the rear deck by another 18mm and saves more weight.

There are no switches on the Senna’s doors, which are similar in size to a 720S’s but have only half-sized lowering glass panes (which both reduce complication and allude usefully to the McLaren F1). In their lightest form, the doors weigh just 8.8kg, less than half those of a 720S.

Active aerodynamic addenda dominate the Senna and McLaren engineers claim “groundbreaking” downforce and stability for their carefully coordinated package. There’s a very prominent pylonmounted rear wing that adjusts around 20deg, according to driving mode, providing high-speed downforce, braking drag and a “DRS mode” for when the car is going fast in a straight line.

Smaller but extremely efficient blades in the front air scoops, just above the front splitter, move automatically to balance aero downforce, front to rear, including when the car is cornering.

On the rear deck, prominent Gurney flaps ahead of a line of louvres create a low-pressure area that draws hot air from the radiators and engine bay. An exoticlooking four-outlet ‘slash-cut’ exhaust is carefully positioned on the car’s sloping rear deck, below the rear wing but above the diffuser to cause minimum interference.

The Senna also has ultralight seats and many ancillary controls are now grouped in a roof console between the occupants. The interior, painstakingly simplified and shorn of excessive weight, is unashamedly designed entirely to suit the driver (who can be fitted precisely to a new car at the factory). For a while, McLaren even considered leaving out the passenger’s seat as a weight-saving measure but decided many owners would prefer to drive to the track with a passenger.

The suspension is a developed version of the P1’s all-independent, doublewishbone layout, with specially tuned dampers that are hydraulically interconnected (both front to rear and side to side) plus another hydraulic system that functions as an anti-roll bar. The entire set-up is governed by an electronic gizmo called RaceActive Chassis Control II (RCC II) that incorporates an automatic stiffness control called K-damper. The whole lot will adapt automatically to road conditions but can also be configured manually (along with engine and gearbox behaviour) from an Active Dynamics Panel on the centre console that offers Comfort, Sport and Track modes. A Race mode can be selected via the overhead panel.

This hardest-edged road McLaren yet will make its public debut at the Geneva motor show in March and enter production next summer. The first cars from the hand-built batch of 500 will reach their owners before the end of 2018. If you don’t have a confirmed order, says McLaren, you’re already too late. The last car in the production run was auctioned at an event for customers, where the car was revealed in the metal. It sold for £2m with the money raised donated to the Senna Foundation. This last car will reach its owner within a year.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...brutal-track-focused-hypercar-produces-789bhp
 
McLaren Senna: Woking’s Most Extreme Road Car Yet

McLaren has taken the wraps off its new Senna, which it bills as “the ultimate McLaren track-concentrated car for the road”.

The Woking-based brand says the latest member of its Ultimate Series – named after legendary Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna – has been “legalised for road use, but not sanitised to suit it”. The new Senna will be hand-assembled in England, with production limited to 500 vehicles. Each example, the brand says, has already been sold.

The two-seater tips the scales at a claimed 1 198 kg (sans fluids) thanks to a carbon-fibre chassis and body panels fashioned from the same material. McLaren’s mid-mounted 4,0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 has been tuned to deliver 588 kW and 800 N.m, sending drive to the rear wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.

In terms of styling, the new McLaren Senna appears to doggedly stick to the form-follows-function approach, featuring what the British automaker calls a “new generation of ground-breaking” front and rear active aerodynamics.

McLaren says the rear clamshell was “born from the twin demands of aerodynamic and cooling performance”, with the gurney flaps ahead of stepped louvres directing air away from the rear deck and down the sides of the body.

The double-element carbon-fibre rear wing, which at its highest point sits 1 219 mm from the tarmac, is hydraulically actuated, constantly adjusting to optimise the levels of downforce and aerodynamic balance (it also functions as an airbrake under heavy braking).

Production will start in the third quarter of 2018.

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/mclaren-senna-wokings-most-extreme-road-car-yet/
 
100% Sure it’ll be brutal.
99% Sure it’s grotesque ugliness is making all my allergies act up.
98% Sure the Aston Valkyrie will murder it.
 
New McLaren Senna Revealed

The new McLaren Senna has broken cover and it’s the most track-focused, road legal car to come from the British supercar maker.

Named after Ayrton Senna, the legendary F1 driver, the McLaren Senna is the brand’s most ‘track-concentrated’ car for the road. Production will start in Q3 of 2018 and will be limited to 500 units. The McLaren Senna will be built at the McLaren Production Centre in Woking, Surrey, England.

“The McLaren Senna is a car like no other: the personification of McLaren’s motorsport DNA, legalised for road use but designed and developed from the outset to excel on a circuit. Every element of this new Ultimate Series McLaren has an uncompromised performance focus, honed to ensure the purest possible connection between driver and machine and deliver the ultimate track driving experience in the way that only a McLaren can” says Mike Flewitt, Chief Executive Officer, McLaren Automotive.

Engine and chassis

The Senna features lightweight construction with body panels and a chassis made of carbon fibre. Its carbon fibre Monocage III chassis is the strongest ever built by the company for a road car and the Senna is consequently the lightest road-legal McLaren, weighing in at 1 198 kg.

The Senna features RaceActive Chassis Control II (RCCII) which is a double-wishbone suspension system with hydraulically interconnected dampers. Stiffness is controlled using a kinetic roll system (K damper) and builds on the system used in the 720S and with Race mode, introduces a lower ride height, lower centre of gravity and a stiffer suspension.

The Senna is McLaren's most hardcore, track-focused road car to date.

The Senna is fitted with a mid-mounted, twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 engine with 588 kW and 800 Nm of torque with an impressive power-to-weight ratio of 491 kW per tonne, making it an extreme performance machine and a worthy member of the McLaren Ultimate Series alongside the P1.

A 7-speed, dual-clutch transmission directs power to rear wheels and the driver can engage full manual mode to facilitate manual shifting using the steering wheel mounted carbon fibre paddles.

A total of 4 driving modes are at the driver’s disposal, including Comfort, Sport, Track and Race and all of them, according to McLaren, are “suitably savage”. The aforementioned Race mode is accessed via a switch in the roof-mounted panel.

Official performance figures for the McLaren Senna have yet to be revealed but with those outputs, it’s performance is expected to be phenomenal.

“The McLaren Senna delivers true performance, all the way to the limit of a driver’s ability. With a truly astonishing power-to-weight ratio, this car is about performance that is accessible and attainable, yet at the same time exciting and challenging for the very best drivers in the world – and with an intense, sensory experience to match” says Andy Palmer, Vehicle Line Director, McLaren Ultimate Series.

Styling details

Striking design meets ultimate functionality as every part of the Senna contributes to maximising performance.

Built for performance, the Senna’s design adopts McLaren’s ‘form follows function’ philosophy, guided by downforce and aerodynamic balance. The Senna features a new generation of front and rear active aerodynamics to maximise performance. The overall design, as well as the front splitter and double rear diffuser contribute to ultimate downforce and aerodynamic efficiency. Front aero blades further add to the drama and can be finished in one of 5 theme specifications such as Azura Blue or McLaren Orange.

A large, double-element rear wing is fitted and is hydraulically actuated and constantly adjusts to enhance downforce and aerodynamic balance. It also serves as an airbrake under hard braking.

The Senna also features F1-inspired dihedral doors that hinge forwards and upwards, opening with a portion of the roof, making it easier to enter and exit the vehicle. The doors are made of carbon fibre and feature 2-piece glass side windows.

A simple, uncluttered interior design places the focus squarely on the driver.

In an effort to reduce weight, the interior only features the bare minimum with exposed carbon fibre used extensively. The seats and fascia can be wrapped in Alcantara or leather and driver controls have been kept to a minimum to reduce cockpit clutter. Even the 3-spoke steering wheel is free of buttons and switchgear. The driver, instead, makes use of a high-definition McLaren Folding Driver Display and a central infotainment screen. Storage space is limited to a chamber behind the seats with enough space to store 2 helmets and race suits.

The McLaren Senna is priced at approximately £750 000, which equates to a whopping R13 737 319. All 500 units have apparently already been sold. Six units are confirmed for the South African market.

https://www.cars.co.za/motoring_news/new-mclaren-senna-revealed/44360/
 
What a great gesture by McLaren.
Ayrton Senna is LEGENDARY in the F1 game.

Schumacher the legend he is would not have been who he is if Ayrton didn't die. In my eyes the best F1 driver ever.
 
Pitbull said:
Schumacher the legend he is would not have been who he is if Ayrton didn't die. In my eyes the best F1 driver ever.
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Whichever maker bring out a car in his name will have ensure it is labelled the M Schumacher.
 
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