BETTER PARTSFormula 1 steering wheel and air conditioning
Woking ( UK), October 23, 2014
Piece by piece it goes ahead with the McLaren GTR P1, now the show the latest indoor and test drive shots. Just the sight of the steering wheel makes clear that McLaren was serious, as it was called, with the P1 GTR would be built so far the best track vehicle. One should rather go outside and wait for a flash, however, given the horrendous purchase price of 2.5 million euros and the limitation to just 30 vehicles ?? to be hit by a probability will probably be higher ?? than ever to hope for your own test drive in a P1 GTR.
World Champion steering wheel
The images show an interior that will be completely focused on the future drivers. Reduced to the bare essentials is the interior ?? as well as the just 90 kilogram light monocoque ?? of carbon fiber composite material. The central element is, as already mentioned, the newly developed steering wheel. It is based on the design of the Formula 1 car MP4-23, who won the world title under the piloting of Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
System - motor performance
During the series - P1 with flabby 916 hp and 900 Newton meters maximum torque has to cope, the system of 3.8 - liter V8 and electric motor developed in P1 GTR almost exactly 1,000 hp. With the reduced vehicle weight ( the standard P1 weighs around 1.5 tonnes ) should ensure better performance be in there as the sluggish 16.5 seconds it takes for the P1 street legal to accelerate to 300 km / h.
Comfortable for the customer
On the necessary comfort in hot races must be eliminated in the GTR but by no means. Would you believe it, but the air conditioning is retained even in the racing version. The current test driver are sure to enjoy, because the present test drives took place at the desert circuit in Bahrain. Maybe just a coincidence, but it seems likely that McLaren just in the Arab emirate's oil multinationals and leaders sees the main customer base. Get on the Facilitated by 2.5 million euros new owners, they shall ultralight seats in the DTM design space. They are equipped with a six-point seat belts and bolted directly to the body.
Driver training including
Although all car buyers are likely to actually be familiar with the P1 ( you can just buy a GTR, if you already have one of 375 regular P1 ), they invariably receive a 1: 1 - driver training for the super - cars. Most of the buyers would indeed have no financial harm when they made their petrodollars in no time Altcarbon ( scrap metal does not fit here, unfortunately ) make, but the driver training events you do not even have necessarily missed in view of the selected localities. They take place on the historic Formula 1 courses and similar in structure to the training sessions, the " must " attend and future Formula driver.
Perhaps a used car?
Although the following may seem completely obsolete: As of June 2015, the production of P1 GTR will begin. Just when the last street-legal P1 leaves the production. Who then arises no GTR, the possibilities still has to resort to the McLaren F1 GTR. From the race version of the V12 cars although only 28 were built, but some even have an official approval for road transport . (ml)