Five commemorative McLaren Senna GTRs pay homage to win at 1995 Le Mans

McLaren has developed five customer-commissioned variations of the track-only Senna GTR, which pay homage to the five McLaren F1 GTRs that dominated the 1995 Le Mans 24 hours race. 
The race was won by the black Kokusai Kaihatso Racing GTR of Yannick Dalmas, JJ Lehto as well as Masanori Sekiya, with four other entrances completing strongly in 3rd, 4th, 5th as well as 13th – conveniently ahead of their rivals from Ferrari, Porsche as well as Nissan.

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McLaren’s five commemorative Senna GTRs have each been completed in a hand-painted livery. Each design uses an authentic replica of one of the well-known paint schemes that featured on the racers in McLaren’s 1995 F1 GTR Le Mans line-up.
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The liveries each took at least 800 hours to apply – as well as McLaren even had to acquire special consent from period sponsors such as Harrods as well as Gulf Oil, to enable their trademarks to be recreated on these special edition models. The authenticity continues with a faithfully reproduced scrutineering sticker fixed to every car’s roof.
Like McLaren’s original F1 GTR racers, each distinct Senna GTR features a set of five-spoke OZ Racing wheels, gold-painted brake calipers as well as anodised gold suspension wishbones. Each example likewise includes a “One of One” commitment plaque as well as an etching for its side skirt, outlining the race specs from its F1 GTR twin.
McLaren has likewise duplicated the cabin of its F1 GTR racers as faithfully as possible. Each Senna GTR includes a pair of carbon fibre race seats, six-point racing harnesses, leather door pull straps as well as a entertainment of the racers’ GTR LM steering wheel. The paddle shifters are completed in anodised gold, too, in tribute to the F1’s gold-coloured handbook gear linkage.
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However, these tribute designs are much more than cosmetic recreations. McLaren has likewise fettled each car’s twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 engine with a freer-flowing Inconel exhaust system, uprated valve springs as well as hand-polished, CNC ported cylinder heads.
Power as well as torque figures stand at 833bhp as well as 800Nm respectively, representing a 20bhp boost over the common Senna GTR. McLaren has likewise pushed the engine’s rev-limiter better to 9,000rpm as well as modified its torque curve to provide much more grunt at lower revs.

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