McLaren P1 LM REVEALED - Lanzante build the F1 LM's successor

McLaren P1 LM revealed ahead of Goodwood FoS debut

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The McLaren P1 LM has been revealed ahead of its Goodwood debut as a road-going McLaren GTR built by Lazante. Just five will be made.

It’s just over 20 years since McLaren created the McLaren F1 LM to celebrate the five McLaren GTRs that completed the 1995 Le Mans (the ‘LM’ stands for Le Mans), a car that is now amongst the most valuable on the planet.

Now we’re getting the McLaren P1 LM as a limited run of five P1s based on the track P1 GTR and created by Lanzanate, a company closely associated with McLaren since the 1995 Le Mans outing (it ran the winning car) and still an active McLaren specialist, and it will debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend and go up the hillclimb.

Lanzante has taken the P1 GTR and fettled it for the road, retaining its 986bhp despite running on forecourt petrol, gold-plated the engine bay, made the catalytic convertor pipes and exhaust headers from Inconel and removed race stuff like the air jacks to cut weight.

Further weight has been saved by fitting Inconel exhaust and titanium tail pipes, plastic windows and titanium bolts, whilst the seats are actually the same lightweight seats the original McLaren F1 GTR had.

The styling of the extreme P1 GTR pretty much carries over, but Lanzante has increased aero by modifying the rear wing and fitting a larger front splitter and dive planes, the result of which is a 40 per cent increase in downforce.

Inside the P1 LM is a sea of Alcantara and carbon fibre, with a steering wheel a modified version of the wheel from Lewis Hamilton’s MP4/23 F1 car.

Lanzante are building just five P1 LMs (in addition to this prototype – the LM XP1) and are (almost) mimicking the F1 LM with four being delivered in McLaren Orange and one in Dark Grey (like this XP1).

The owners will also get a full toolkit and diagnostics tablet, tailored car cover and a 1:8 scale model of their car. Sadly, it doesn’t look like they’re getting their very own Tag Heuer watch.

Lanzante say all the P1 LMs will be delivered to their owners in January 2017, and although we have no price details you’re unlikely to get change from £2 million.

But if the P1 LM increases in value in the coming years the way the F1 LM has, it’ll be one very clever investment. And a lot of fun.