McLaren P1 gets an Arctic shakedown (+video)

With the McLaren P1 due to start arriving with customers before the end of the year, McLaren are busy giving the P1 a final shakedown on the ice of the Arctic Circle.

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The McLaren P1 Supercar mat have officially arrived at this year’s Geneva Motor Show in production guise, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely ready to be let loose in the hands of customers.

So McLaren are busy throwing the worst conditions they can at the P1 to make sure it can perform even in the harshest of conditions and be the best driver’s car in the world – even when there’s several feet of ice under its wheels.

McLaren has had several XP prototypes of the P1 running round the world’s harshest climates – hot and cold – and have delivered a video of the P1 prototype playing on the ice in the north of Sweden – inside the Arctic Circle – to keep interest in the P1 bubbling along ahead of its dynamic debut in the UK at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July.

Despite its enormous power – 903bhp from a combination of its turbo 3.8 litre V8 and electric motor – the P1 does look composed and capable, even with sub-zero temperatures and a surface that has zero grip.