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McLaren Wants To Take The Senna Racing

McLaren has said that it is working on “a plan” to take its new Senna hypercar racing, pretty much confirming the inevitable. The Senna, although strictly a road car, looks born for the track with a function-over-form body and a massive wing that puts most commercial aircrafts to shame, so to hear that McLaren is planning to race it comes as no surprise whatsoever.

It isn’t yet clear which series or category McLaren would take the Senna racing in – to qualify it for GTE homologation, the car maker would only need to produce 100 examples of the car (based on its sales of the last two years) provided it can put together at least one a week – 500 Sennas are planned, so racing it in the GT classes at Le Mans seems rather straightforward on paper.

In the FIA World Endurance Championship, the GTE classes are currently filled by Ferrari (488 GTE), Porsche (991 RSR), Aston Martin (Vantage GTE), Ford (GT LM GTE), and BMW (M8 GTE), with Chevrolet taking the Corvette to Le Mans for a one-off appearance every year too.

McLaren’s highest level production-based racing car is its 650S GT3 car, which is set to be replaced next year by a 720S-based car. It hasn’t raced at Le Mans since the 1990s when it entered the F1 GTR, which won on its debut in 1995 (above) despite racing against faster prototype cars.

McLaren is understood to be pushing for a regulation change that would allow production-based cars to race in the top LMP1 prototype class once again – much like the F1 did following its surprise victory in 1995 – where the Senna could, in theory, race against the likes of Mercedes’ F1-engined Project One and the Red Bull Racing-developed Aston Martin Valkyrie.

 

Source: motor1.com

 

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