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2019 Mclaren Senna
We’ve been telling you about McLaren’s plans for a new Ultimate Series hypercar for some time,
a project heretofore known only by its P15 internal project code. This is the stripped-out super-
performer that insiders promised would be quicker around a racetrack than the seminal P1. The
fundamental ingredients—an overabundance of power in an extremely lightweight package—were
already known, so it seemed that the only secrets left to spill would be the relative quantities of
those, as well as the final exterior design.
We were wrong. McLaren managed to keep the best secret under wraps until the car’s official
unveiling: its name. Meet the McLaren Senna. There’s a certain Ferrari Enzo quality to this news,
both in the decision to dig into the brand’s illustrious motorsports history for its most extreme proj-
ect—Ayrton Senna having won all three of his Formula 1 drivers’ championships with the team—
and also for the confidence that it projects.
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