The new gallery of pictures revealed today, showing the car in a less aggressive colour than originally, confirm just how form-follows-function the Senna is, and the elements of racing DNA that show up. It will need all of that and more in coming months as it takes on other imminent new racing-cars-for-the-road like the Adrian Newey-designed Aston Martin Valkyrie and F1-engined Mercedes-AMG Project One.
For now, enjoy the pictures and savour the numbers…
McLaren Senna numbers countdown
£2,000,000 - winning bid of a Senna auctioned in December to raise money for the Ayrton Senna Institute helping underprivileged children in Brazil
£750,000 price tag of the 500 cars
1198kg lightest dry weight
800kg of downforce at 155mph
789bhp at 7250rpm, the 4.0-litre biturbo V8 is McLaren’s most powerful pure combustion road car engine
659bhp per tonne power/weight ratio
590 lb ft of torque at 5500rpm
500 to be made, and all allotted
300 hours to hand-assemble each car
211mph top speed
180mm (7ins) lower rear deck than 720S
60kg - weight of carbon-fibre body panels
9.9 seconds, standing quarter mile (400m)
7.32kg, weight of special Bowers & Wilkins sound system (echoes of the F1’s lightweight Kenwood stereo!)
6.8 seconds, 0-124mph
2.8 seconds, 0-62mph