2019 McLaren Senna

McLaren Senna GTR Production Version To Be Revealed This Week

The McLaren team shocked the automotive world when they brought the drastic looking Senna GTR concept to the Geneva Motor Show last year and by the sounds of things, we will get our first look at the production version this week.

According to TheSupercarBlog one of the wealthy individuals who ordered a Senna GTR said the production-spec would be revealed on the 15th of February.

If this is accurate, we should be seeing the 813 hp (606 kW) track monster at the end of the week.

As compared to the regular Senna, the GTR version, although pricier, will have some sort of a basic interior. All of the airbags will be removed, as well as the central infotainment screen and folding driver display. There will be a new race-style steering wheel with integrated gearshift paddles, and a radar-assisted, rear collision avoidance system.

https://www.zero2turbo.com/2019/02/...duction-version-to-be-revealed-this-week.html
 
McLaren Senna GTR

Just twelve months after it was revealed as a concept car at the 2018 Geneva International Motor Show, the McLaren Senna GTR was revealed as a fully-fledged track machine - uncompromised, unconstrained and unshackled by road or racing regulations.

McLaren Automotive's most track-focused Ultimate Series car has evolved in key areas to deliver on its promise of hypercar power and accessible handling with the aerodynamics and chassis of a thoroughbred racer. The result is a machine able to lap circuits faster than any McLaren outside Formula 1, providing its owners, of all abilities, with an unparalleled track driving experience.

The McLaren Senna GTR takes the road-legal McLaren Senna - already the lightest, most powerful and track-focused but road-legal car that McLaren builds - several steps further into the realm of ultimate performance. Without the constraints of road or racing regulations, the new Ultimate Series car is more powerful, weighs less, boasts an incredible 1,000kg plus of aerodynamic downforce and uses suspension derived from McLaren's GT3 race programme.

"The McLaren Senna GTR is a perfect example of our determination to bring our customers the Ultimate expression of track driving performance and excitement. The McLaren Senna was designed from the outset to be an extreme track car, but the 2018 McLaren Senna GTR Concept suggested how much more further we could go and now, free from the constraints of road car legislation and motorsport competition rules, we have pushed the limits of what is technically possible to advance circuit driving capability to another level entirely." Mike Flewitt, Chief Executive Officer, McLaren Automotive

The McLaren Senna GTR, which joins the McLaren Senna and McLaren Speedtail in the brand's Ultimate Series, succeeds legendary predecessors the Le Mans-winning McLaren F1 GTR of 1995 and the McLaren P1™ GTR of 2015 and keeps the name that honours the memory of three-times McLaren Formula 1 World Champion, Ayrton Senna.

Each new McLaren Senna GTR offers its owner virtually unlimited opportunities for personalisation by McLaren Special Operations Options, from paint colours in the MSO Defined portfolio to unique, multi-hued liveries as an MSO Bespoke commission that imagines a wholly individual expression of track car artistry.

Just 75 McLaren Senna GTRs will be built to customer order at the McLaren Production Centre in Woking, UK, with first deliveries commencing September 2019. Priced from £1.1 million plus taxes, all cars were allocated to owners within weeks of the order book opening following the McLaren Senna GTR Concept debuting at the 2018 Geneva International Motor Show.

Powertrain

The McLaren Senna GTR is powered by the most extreme version yet of McLaren's 4.0-litre twin turbocharged V8 engine. The M840TR unit, with electronically controlled twin-scroll turbochargers, produces 825PS (814bhp) with 800Nm (590lb ft) of torque. The extra 25PS over the engine in the McLaren Senna has been achieved by engine control recalibration and removing the secondary catalyst to reduce back pressure. Removing the catalyst also heightens the aural experience of driving the McLaren Senna GTR.

The exhaust system of the concept, which exited through side pipes just ahead of the rear wheels, has been replaced with a more conventional rear exit system on the production car, with the pipes now emerging from the rear deck under the rear wing in the same location as the Senna. The change was made for the purest of engineering reasons: the side exit pipes may have looked the part, but the rear exit pipes provided the shortest, quickest route for exhaust gases to exit, saving weight and reducing complexity.

With 825PS and a lightest dry weight of 1,188kg, the 694PS-per tonne power-to-weight ratio of the McLaren Senna GTR comfortably exceeds not only that of 'regular' McLaren Senna, but every other McLaren Automotive car for road or track currently in production.

Three powertrain modes are available to the McLaren Senna GTR driver: Wet, Track and Race. The new Wet setting, which provides greater support from the ESP and ABS electronic systems, is particularly intended for use with wet tyres. The transmission, which includes a Launch Control function, is the same, acclaimed 7-speed plus reverse Seamless Shift Gearbox (SSG) that features in the road-legal McLaren Senna.

https://www.netcarshow.com/mclaren/2020-senna_gtr/

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New McLaren Senna GTR shown in production form

Track-only version of hypercar gets 814bhp and makes 1000kg of downforce; all 75 examples have already been sold

McLaren has revealed its track-only Senna GTR hypercar in production form, a year after showing a concept version at the 2018 Geneva motor show.

The Senna GTR is described as the fastest machine to roll out of Woking this side of a Formula 1 car. It's priced at £1.1 million plus local taxes and production is capped at 75 examples, all in left-hand-drive form. All have already been sold, with customer deliveries due to commence in September.

The standard Senna's 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 petrol engine is uprated in the GTR to produce 814bhp, up from 789bhp, while torque is unchanged at 590lb ft.

The final bodywork is based around a chassis with a wider front track. Made almost exclusively from carbonfibre, it features wider front wings, a larger front splitter, a bespoke rear diffuser and repositioned active rear wing. The result is a full 1000kg of downforce, up 200kg over the existing Senna. Under braking, the car is also capable of 3g of decelerative force – 20% more than the Senna.

McLaren says the Senna GTR concept will out-accelerate the standard Senna, but it has yet to confirm straight-line performance figures. The regular Senna can charge from 0-62mph in 2.8sec and 0-124mph in 6.8sec.

With no road regulations or pedestrian safety tests to worry about, McLaren’s aerodynamicists have extracted a further 200kg of potential downforce from the Senna’s body. They’ve gently resculpted its panels, added an enormous front splitter and bolted on a rear diffuser that shames those of Le Mans GTE racers. Add the Senna’s active rear wing and downforce peaks at 1000kg – 400kg more than the P1 GTR's.

To handle these enormous high-speed loads, the Senna GTR uses revised double-wishbone suspension and Pirelli slick tyres. A carbonfibre Monocage III skeleton remains at the car’s core, but the GTR is 10kg lighter than the 1198kg Senna when dry, because it can do away with road-specific kit such as airbags, a handbrake and an exhaust muffler and make use of lightweight materials such as plexiglass.

The Senna GTR is a more track-focused package than the P1 GTR, and its makers say it can lap McLaren’s test circuit quicker than anything else it has built with a roof. The firm says only its F1 cars can clock a quicker time.

McLaren boss Mike Flewitt says the Senna GTR "was designed from the outset to be an extreme track car, but the 2018 McLaren Senna GTR concept suggested how much further we could go and now, free from the constraints of road car legislation and motorsport competition rules, we have pushed the limits of what is technically possible".

The GTR is the latest in a lineage that started with the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning F1 GTR, and promises the performance of the Aston Martin Valkyrie and Mercedes Project One for around half the price.

All 500 examples of the regular Senna were also allocated before it was revealed. That model started at £750,000.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-mclaren-senna-gtr-shown-production-form
 
McLaren Winning the Rear-Wing War

In a contest for the biggest rear wing of 2019, McLaren might have already won.

A year after its Geneva auto show debut, McLaren has finally revealed the production version of its Senna GTR.

McLaren claims that the Senna GTR is the company’s fastest ever vehicle, aside from its Formula One team racing cars. Despite not being road legal, the Senna GTR will have substantial appeal to gentleman racers who have the time and budget to attend select track days at their leisure.

The GTR car has a 34 mm lower roofline than its road-going Senna sibling and features a substantially wider track, 77 mm broader on the front axle and the rear wheels are spaced 68 mm further apart.

That lower and wider chassis also gains a bodyshell which has phenomenal aerodynamic properties, the most noticeable being an enormous rear wing. McLaren claims the Senna GTR’s rear aerofoil is good for more than 1 000 kg of downforce at 250 kph.

Engineers have managed to boost a bit more power from the 4-litre twin-turbocharged V8. Peak power increases by 18 kW over a ‘normal’ Senna, with the GTR car producing 606 kW and 800 Nm. One of the few exterior styling changes made from the original Senna GTR concept to this production version has been the rerouting of its exhaust – which now exits rearward, instead of through side ports, just ahead of the rear wheels.

McLaren has committed to building only 75 Senna GTRs, priced at an estimated R20m a piece. Each one promises to be the ultimate track day tool, featuring intuitive stability control and driver aids, which should help owners go faster, instead of anaesthetising the experience.

https://www.cars.co.za/motoring_news/mclaren-winning-the-rear-wing-war/46305/
 
This McLaren Senna 1:8 Scale Model Costs R186k

Amalgam Collection makes some of the most detailed (and clearly most expensive) automotive scale models on the planet. After releasing a static McLaren Senna in 2018, the company thought it could do the car even better justice. So, Amalgam created a remote specifically for the 1:8 model that controls a variety of features, including the lights and the doors.

The first model was not exactly cheap at $8,324 but now the new and improved offering will sting your wallet to the tune of $13,444 (approx. R186,000).

This is mainly due to the new remote that comes with the model. which is about the size of a smartphone and has eight different buttons. It can lock and unlock the doors, turn on the hazards, turn on the headlights, turn on the reverse lights, open the left and right door, or turn on interior lights.

https://www.zero2turbo.com/2019/04/this-mclaren-senna-18-scale-model-costs-r186k.html


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A Water Bottle For Your McLaren Senna Costs R100k

Manny Khoshbin is a real estate tycoon, best known for being the president and CEO of the Khoshbin Company and he recently took delivery of a stunning McLaren Senna.

Manny appears to have taken inspiration from Ayrton Senna’s Marlboro liveried MP4/4 Formula 1 car. It is finished in a dual-tone of red and white with the #12 painted on the rear fenders. The rear spoiler is also painted in the same dual-tone theme and has the Senna logo on its end plates.

That is not why we are talking about this car though because in the video Mr. Khoshbin reveals that he paid $7000 (approx. R100k) for a matching water bottle just in case you get a bit thirsty while driving the 789 hp (588 kW) British machine.

https://www.zero2turbo.com/2019/05/a-water-bottle-for-your-mclaren-senna-costs-r100k.html

 
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