Billed as the fastest road-approved “racing car”, the McLaren Senna It seeks, above all, to honor one of the biggest names in Formula 1, the Brazilian Ayrton Senna, three-time world champion who died at the age of 34, following a run off with his Williams, during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
With a production limited to just 500 units, the fastest McLaren built to date, was felt, for the first time, by the international media, at the Estoril Autodrome. Precisely the circuit where Ayrton took his first victory in F1 at the Grand Prix of Portugal in 1985.
But the story of one of the McLaren Senna present did not stop with the international presentation in Portugal. Ollie Marriage, editor of the British Top Gear, was allowed to leave the racetrack with one of the units to undertake a long journey to the principality which Ayrton Senna called “home”, Monaco.
Basically, 2414 km by road, crossing Portugal, Spain and France, passing through the Pyrenees, during which the journalist could feel what it is like to drive a “racing car”, with 800 hp, 800 Nm and 800 kg of downforce, on everyday roads day.
McLaren Senna shines on the circuit, but can he convince on the road? You will have to see the video. Which, even in English, is definitely worth it.