McLaren Special Operations has introduced an optional R Pack to the 620R that combines select features to turn its performance up to the max – as if that wasn’t already the case. European, Middle Eastern and African buyers of the 225-run, 620hp machine can tick the £25,000 box, creating what McLaren claims is a further intensified driving experience in a car that, let’s not forget, is already its most track-focussed and powerful Sports Series model yet. Just ask Matt.
The performance-enhancing bits include MSO’s titanium SuperSports exhaust system, which is said to be up to five decibels louder than other Sports Series pipework and capable of delivering “a sharper and more characterful exhaust note”. Nice. At the other end of that 3.8-litre V8 is a carbon roof scoop, there to force-feed cold air into its banks, while also adding an audible growl to the turbocharged chorus thanks to its placement just above the occupants’ heads. The piece is a sculpted work of CF art, too.
Handily, the intake's high vantage point provides a mounting point for an integrated camera, there to work with McLaren’s track telemetry system so drivers can record their heroics at the press of a button. The £250,000 620R’s motorsport-aping bodywork also bears new carbon fibre front louvres, adding to the air’s workload on a machine that’s capable of generating 185kg of downforce at 155mph in ‘standard’, pre-R Pack form. The 620R’s skin is, of course, shaped with McLaren’s GT4 racing car as the influence.
Inside, MSO’s optional kit adds to the racing finish with lots more carbonfibre; McLaren certainly has ever right to brag about its specialty with the material, and we suspect a few grams being saved from a 1,386kg car as focussed as this will be as technically appreciated as it is aesthetically. Throw in the 620R’s standard kit – carbon ceramic brakes, centre locking wheels and two-way manually adjustable GT4 dampers, featuring 32 clicks (!) of adjustment per corner, oh, and uber-sticky Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tyres – and you have yourself an even madder version of an already immensely capable machine.
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