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The McLaren Senna GTR hypercar, at $1.65 million, is the most intense McLaren yet. Indy 500 competitor J.R. Hildebrand takes it for a track test.
The production Senna GTR unveiled two years later has a different bodywork from the concept, with a different wing setup, toned-down aerodynamics, and utilizes a dual-clutch race transmission for faster gear shifts, a revised suspension system and Pirelli racing slicks in order to make it the fastest non-Formula One vehicle McLaren has ever ...
The Frenchman was unhappy because he believed that McLaren and Honda were favouring Senna. As a result, Ferrari and McLaren swapped car numbers, giving Prost and teammate Nigel Mansell the numbers 1 and 2, and giving Senna and Gerhard Berger , who had swapped with Prost at Ferrari, the numbers 27 and 28.
This was the first McLaren to use a semi-automatic transmission; it was a McLaren-designed electro-hydraulic clutch and paddle-shift unit with semi-automatic activation (a semi-automatic transmission had been tested during the previous season with the MP4/6 and was on track during practice for the 1991 Hungarian Grand Prix, but the team elected to retain that car's original manual transaxle ...
McLaren launched the McLaren Tech Club last week with a brief episode about the aerodynamic magic of the open-top McLaren Elva. In part two of the video series, McLaren continues to explain how ...
The McLaren P1 coupé is the first road car to have incorporated the F1-style rear wing Drag Reduction Systems. [22] McLaren Senna GTR and Porsche 911 (992) GT3 RS later followed suit by the introduction of the same system in 2019 and 2022 respectively. [23]
Formula 1's governing body rejects complaints from Red Bull and Ferrari about the legality of the McLaren and Mercedes front wings.
The major aerodynamic difference between the three cars was the anhedral rear wing and downward sloping rear bodywork of the FW16. [6] Adrian Newey said, "To be honest we made a bloody awful cock-up. The rear-end grip problem was purely a setup problem.