A McLaren P1 LM has been filmed roaring around the Nurburgring, just two months after Lanzante Motorsport said it may attempt a lap record.
Although the P1 LM in question was taking part in one of the Tourist Days drive, meaning it was surrounded by a multitude of other cars making a record attempt impossible, it does look perfectly at home at the famed German racetrack and has all the right ingredients to set a road-legal car lap record.
The current production-car record sits at 6:57 for the Porsche 918 Spyder (excluding those two Radicals) and while McLaren hasn’t published an official time for the standard P1, it asserts it is under 7 minutes. The P1 LM should, in theory, annihilate the record of the 918, if a perfect lap can be strung together without any other cars getting in the way.
While to the naked eye the P1 LM looks almost identical to the track-only P1 GTR, it has actually been extensively revised, particularly from a aerodynamics standpoint. In fact, it delivers 40 per cent more downforce than the GTR, largely thanks to the even bigger rear wing and more prominent front canards.
Update: Our friend and spy photographer Andreas from Carpix told us that, “From what I can see and what I heard, Swedish race driver Kenny Bräck was driving the P1 LM on the Nürburgring”