World Exclusive! Driving the McLaren P1 Spider from Lanzante | Henry Catchpole - The Driver’s Seat

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In this World Wide WEB exclusive Henry Catchpole drives a car that Peter PARKER would surely be a fan of - the McLaren P1 Spider, created by Lanzante. Hopefully that’s got the puns out of the way along with the obligatory Spider-Man reference to help nudge along the SEO.
For now this is the only P1 Spider in existence. Eventually there will be five customer cars in addition to this prototype, which is undergoing final development, but it will remain an incredibly rare sight. It is the work of Lanzante, the same company that took the McLaren F1 GTR to victory at the 24hrs of Le Mans in 1995. Now an authorised McLaren service centre (specialising in the Ultimate Series cars) and well known for its special projects, Lanzante has brought to life what feels like the final piece of the open top hybrid hypercar puzzle - Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta, Porsche 918 Spyder and now this.

With the P1’s original designer, Paul Howse, helping to shape the Spider and with the P1’s original test driver, Chris Goodwin, giving feedback on the dynamics, it’s no wonder that it looks and feels like a factory car. It’s also testament to the car’s aesthetic rightness that it looks like it would be a fairly easy job to take the roof off a P1, but as Dean Lanzante explains to us in this film it has taken a lot of work.

We were given a limited mileage with the P1 Spider, so we decided to make the most of every single yard and have it transported straight to a fabulous piece of road that would really test it. Ten years on from the P1’s launch, its turbocharged V8 and electric motor (producing a combined the 903bhp and 664lb ft of torque) still feels mighty and the sounds that it produces are arguably even more wild in this Spider version.

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