McLaren P1: New photos & video of production P1

With the first McLaren P1 customer cars soon to arrive, McLaren has released video and photos of the final production car hot weather testing.

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We’ve had a surprising amount of McLaren P1 news in the last couple of weeks, with a claimed lap time at the Nurburgring that didn’t quite meet expectation, P1 customer Jay Leno getting to grips with the P1 at the Top Gear track  and the news that the P1 is all but sold out.

Now, with the first P1s getting close to delivery (McLaren are about to start building customer cars at the rate of one a day), McLaren has released photos and video from their final stint of hot weather testing in the US, with a completely undisguised, production version P1.

McLaren have been in the west of the US, where temperatures reach 52 degrees, putting the P1 through its paces in extreme heat in California, Nevada and Arizona, both on the road and at the Willow Springs International Raceway in California, just to be sure it doesn’t melt in the sun.

With September being the 50th anniversary of the launch of McLaren in 1963, you can be sure McLaren will ensure the first P1s get delivered this month to customers to coincide.

So it’s a fair bet the next McLaren P1 story will be the delivery of that first customer car.