More Details on McLaren's F1 Successor?

Last week, we learned McLaren was going to unveil the successor to the legendary F1—codenamed the P12— at the Paris Motor Show. The spy shots we posted a couple months back are probably the best guide as to what it’ll look like, but over the weekend, InsideMcLaren took "all the talk, rumors, official quotes, and likely guesses and compressed them into an entirely fictional InsideMcLaren Paris unveiling."

Of course, we’ll have to wait and see how accurate it is, because none of this has been confirmed. But if they’re right, the numbers, to put it mildly, are impressive. Between the turbocharged 3.8L V8’s 803hp and a 160hp KERS— Kinetic Energy Recovery System—the new McLaren will be packing a dizzying 963hp. With a curb weight just a tick under 2700lbs, that would translate to 2.81lbs per horsepower, which is bonkers.

The post also mentions details on the fighter plane tech used create the windscreen, and touches on the customization program lucky buyers will get to option their cars from. But the bit that jumped out at me dealt with the car’s laps at Silverstone. No specific source is cited, but there are reports the P12 bested the road-car lap record—previously held by Nobel—by 24 seconds. You don't have to know much about racing to know that's an absolute eternity. With arch-rival Ferrari’s Enzo successor poised to drop near the end of the year, we should see some interesting face offs in 2013.

What do you think about the stats from Inside McLaren? Dead accurate? Totally delusional? Sound off below!

[via InsideMcLaren]

 

...thanks to Teamspeed member Mark Antar again:

 

I don't see how they could have run the car at Silverstone. It won't get a good time with all the camouflage on and without it there would be pictures everywhere.

 

^^I am thinking the article was a dream the author had on that blog

 

I think the guy who wrote that said it was a work of fiction based on rumors so i wouldnt take it very seriously

 

I tend to agree with you guys about the delusion nature of some of these claims... But it doesn't make me any less curious about the finished product.

 

Yes - blog based on rumors and whims of its writer at the time. Meant to be theoretical and satirical and fun, yet some "journalists" ignored this fact and reproduced it as "news".

Anyway, if it were true, surely they could have generated the Silverstone lap time in their simulator.

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if this is going to be 963 hp with 2700lbs curb weight, then it might the fastest production car in the world or one of the fastest.

 

The post was a joke guys

 

Hope its not as ugly as the X-1!