- Is it a hybrid like the Artura road car?
- Any advantages over the old McLaren 570 GT4?
- Anything else?
- Debut at 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed
- Racing version of McLaren’s Artura road car revealed
- Will compete in GT championships around the world
- Unlike the road car, not a hybrid, due to GT4 formula
This fetching orange and blue creation is the first McLaren Artura GT4 car, the race-spec version of McLaren’s new supercar.
Like its (very successful) predecessor, the McLaren 570 GT4, it’ll be sold to customer racing teams and is eligible to race in various GT series all around the world.
Is it a hybrid like the Artura road car?
No, GT4 racing regs don’t allow that. So instead it’s purely petrol powered, via the Artura’s new 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 engine. The part of the monocoque that would normally carry the battery now accommodates the fuel cell and other components.
Losing the hybrid running gear helps the GT4 car weigh around 130kg less than the Artura road car. It uses a race-spec seven-speed gearbox in place of the road car’s eight-speed unit (partly because the hybrid road car doesn’t have a reverse gear, and instead uses the electric motor to go backwards; race regs demand a reverse gear).
Any advantages over the old McLaren 570 GT4?
Artura’s platform is lighter, stiffer and stronger, and its new V6 engine is lighter too. McLaren says it’s also more fuel-efficient, with better throttle response.
Kilo for kilo, McLaren says the Artura GT4 is 100kg lighter than the older 570 GT4 car.
McLaren also says the Arutra will be easier and faster to work on for race teams.
Anything else?
The pedal box slides, to easily accommodate drivers of different sizes in multi-driver endurance races.
Where the Artura road car has a deliberately clean shape, the race car features dive planes, splitter and rear wing with seven angles of adjustment.
There’s motorsport-spec ABS and traction control, and an upgrade in the form of a limited-slip differential where the 570 GT4 featured torque-vectoring by braking instead.
Debut at 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed
The Artura GT4 will be shown in public at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it will be demoed by racing driver Rob Bell, who won last year’s timed shootout in the McLaren 720S GT3X.
Customers will receive cars in time for the 2023 season, when the Artura GT4 will make its racing debut.
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