McLaren joins the hypercar track day crowd with the £3m Gran Turismo Sport-inspired Solus GT -
Its heritage is in sports car racing, powering the Pescarolo 01 Le Mans car to second place in 2006, and retains the 70-degree V-angle, the forty-valve head, four-valves per cylinder, direct injection and dry sump specification. However, the majority of the internals have been redesigned and upgraded to McLaren’s bespoke specification, including the crank, cylinder capacity, air intake and exhaust.
Its body is designed purely to meet its aerodynamic needs. There is no active aero and when you see it from dead ahead it’s not hard to see the single seater influence in terms of how open the front of the car is to maximise its aero performance under, through and over the car to to twin-element fixed rear wing and ground effect tunnel diffuser. The entire rear wing structure is mounted to the rear impact structure, which in turn is bolted to the gearbox.