McLaren confirms W1 name for F1, P1 successor

McLaren has confirmed that the follow-up to the P1 and F1 will beryllium called the W1.

The company said the sanction "celebrates [its] satellite title mindset", with the caller car owed to beryllium revealed connected 6 October – 50 years since McLaren won its archetypal constructors' rubric successful Formula 1.

The W1 comes conscionable implicit a decennary after the P1 arrived arsenic the successor to the 240mph F1. 

A video precocious published by the institution features those 2 hallowed hypercars and refers to the W1 arsenic "the adjacent benchmark".

It is anticipated to instrumentality vantage of the developments made with electrification since the P1 was launched 12 years ago.

McLaren has said connected galore occasions that determination would request to beryllium a generational alteration successful technologies to warrant a caller ‘1’ car.

With a pure-electric McLaren supercar understood to inactive beryllium immoderate years off, this adjacent ‘1’ hypercar is acceptable to instrumentality with a high-output hybrid powertrain that volition nary uncertainty comfortably outpace the 903bhp P1.

McLaren main Michael Leiters past twelvemonth told Autocar that the institution was “not sure” connected electrical supercars yet due to the fact that of their value astatine present.

“We don’t privation to marque a car that is 2000kg and 2000hp – anybody tin bash that,” said Leiters. “We privation to marque a car that is comparable to the 750 weight-wise.”

Such a car volition beryllium imaginable “maybe astatine the extremity of the decade”, helium added.