Even McLaren admit the new Senna is a dog ugly car built purely for performance. OK, so McLaren doesn’t openly say it’s an ugly hypercar but they do say it’s “not sanitized to suit… the road” which means the Senna is ugly. The looks are utterly superfluous for the McLaren Senna not only honours the greatest F1 driver of his era (probably of all time), Ayrton Senna, it also follows Senna’s personal purist philosophy when it came to driving a Formula 1 car at the limit. The McLaren Senna echoes the late Ayrton Senna’s uncompromising driving style it’s a high-performance supercar/hypercar built for the track and legalized for road use. Built around the carbon-fiber Monocage III chassis in addition to carbon fiber body panels the Senna has a dry weight of 1,198kg. The power comes from McLaren’s stock 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, housed mid-mounted within it now becomes the most powerful engine McLaren have made to date. The rear wheels drive 789bhp and 800Nm of torque, that low weight enables a power-to-weight ratio of 668PS per tonne. However, the reason why the McLaren Senna is so dog ugly is that it is fully focused on aerodynamic optimisation. It features a new generation of front and rear active aerodynamics. Every surface area, says McLaren, fully maximises downforce from the front and rear double diffuser to the massive rear spoiler. Much of the underlying tech is race inspired. Anti-roll bars and dampers have a hydraulic system, the steering is electro-hydraulic and the adaptive dampers are hydraulically interconnected. This allows for the drive settings and stiffness to be adjusted from within the driver’s cockpit via the Active Dynamics Panel located on the centre console to select Comfort, Sport or Track modes or via a switch in a roof-mounted panel to access Race mode. The interior reflects the Senna’s track-focused priorities which in and of itself is as stripped back as much as possible. The Senna will be limited to just 500 units, costing £750,000 each. But if you want one then you’re already too late, production is sold out. You know what? we kind-of like the looks