• One owner from new
• The final of only five P1 LMs
• The spiritual successor to the McLaren F1 LM
• Left-hand drive, like all cars, with all books and accessories
• Fewer than 250 miles from new
• Serviced January 2023 with new fuel bladders and engine work at a cost of £114,197.61 incl. VAT

McLaren introduced the two-seater P1 hypercar at the 2013 Geneva Show. The car was in many ways the spiritual successor to the epic F1. In anyone’s opinion the P1 was a sensation, hitting the sweet spot in the consciousness of potential buyers, succeeding right from debut.

The P1 was built around a carbonfibre MonoCage – that included the roof and air intake – weighing just 90kg. Powering the P1 was the standard (but substantially revised) road car’s 3.8-litre, twin-turbo petrol V8. This was coupled to a single electric motor, collectively known as ‘M838TQ’. Together, the power output was 903bhp. For comparison, the LaFerrari’s 6.3-litre V12 and electric motor pushed out 950bhp. A seven-speed, dual-clutch gearbox transferred the power to the rear wheels. The whole powertrain could be almost infinitely adjusted in the severity of its delivery via a variety of driving modes for road or track.
Active suspension – with small ‘helper’ springs to maintain ride-height when static – allowed drivers to dial in comfort for road use or the stiffest possible setting when on a circuit. It was a development of the system used in the other road cars in McLaren’s range, universally praised for its adaptability and offering a surprising level of comfort. An active rear wing deployed under braking and to balance the car in high-speed turns.
Production was limited from the outset to 375 examples. Echoing the development and nomenclature of the defining F1, McLaren announced a ‘P1 GTR’ in March 2015 at the Geneva Show. With power now at 987bhp, a fixed ride height and rear wing, slick tyres and a 50kg weight reduction, it was intended purely as a track-day machine. Top speed was 225mph, production limited to 58 units. The aim was for owners to join factory-organised track events, the ‘McLaren P1™ GTR Driver Programme’.

Inevitably, some owners wished to drive the GTR on the road. As a result, racing team and McLaren F1 specialist Lanzante Motorsport converted some GTRs for highway use, before commissioning McLaren Special Operations to build five production (plus one prototype) P1 GTRs for conversion by Lanzante to ‘LM’ specification – in effect revisiting what McLaren did to the F1 when it made the F1 LM, the fastest, most valuable version of the groundbreaking supercar, of which only five were built.

The sales price of the Lanzante-converted P1 LM was £3,250,000 plus VAT (£3,900,000 with VAT). A regular P1 was £866,000 in the UK in 2014, a P1 GTR £1,980,000 in 2015. All P1 LMs were left-hand drive.
The P1 LM’s petrol engine was increased from 3,798cc to 3,994cc. Combined with electric motor power from the hybrid unit and higher boost, output rose to 1,000 PS (986bhp). The LM was 60kg lighter due to an exposed carbonfibre roof, lightweight seats, the deletion of the jacking system, side and rear windows in Lexan, many titanium bolts and fixings, and exhaust headers and catalytic convertor pipes made from Inconel. Air conditioning was standard. The Alcantara-covered steering wheel was inspired by the one in Lewis Hamilton’s Championship-winning 2008 McLaren MP4/23; the centre-lock wheels unique to the car. A larger splitter and revised rear wing enhance the aero effect at very high speeds where the car benefits from a 40% increase in downforce.
Former Indianapolis 500 winner Kenny Bräck took the prototype, XP1 LM, to the Nürburgring Nordschleife in May 2017, setting a time of 6min 43.22sec on Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R road tyres developed specially for the P1 LM. It was a record for a production-based car – Stefan Bellof’s time of 6min 25.91sec set in 1983 when driving a works Rothmans Porsche 956 is the fastest by a racing car on the same circuit. Bräck then drove the P1 LM prototype back to the UK on the road. The Swedish driver had already beaten the fastest-ever time for a road car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the same chassis the previous summer.

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This Motor Car

Our client ordered this P1 LM in October 2016. The commissioning letter confirmed that only six cars – one XP prototype in dark grey, one production car in dark grey, four in orange – would be built. The LM would be the “last of any variant of the P1”, manufactured at McLaren with final road registration, completion and delivery scheduled for March 2017 for conversion by Lanzante.
Included in the P1 LM sales contract was:
• Chest of tools including torque wrench with wheel socket and diagnostic tablet
• Colour-coded driver and co-driver P1 LM comms headsets
• Car cover
• 1/8 scale model of the car
• Framed rendering of the car
• Battery charging system
• Flight case for the above
• Bespoke Rolex P1 LM watch with alternative style straps in fitted carbonfibre travel/display cylinder

This example, ‘P1 LM-5’ is the last P1 LM built and finished in the traditional McLaren F1 LM colour Papaya Orange. The interior is simply orange Alcantara seating with the rest of the interior in black carbonfibre with the special Lewis Hamilton McLaren MP4/23-type steering wheel.
The car was registered LM05 UFO on 1 March 2017 and an invoice for £3,250,000.00 net of VAT issued by Lanzante Ltd on 31 May 2017. Later exported and currently stored in bond, the car has never been driven, just maintained regardless of cost by Lanzante and comes with all its original accessories.
In late 2022 the car was serviced by Lanzante-McLaren Petersfield. The invoice dated 24 January 2023 was for a first-to-fifth year service and included new fuel bladders (£4,912.55 excl. VAT), some cosmetic repairs to the front splitter (£1,600.00 excl. VAT), further works at Lanzante and Cosworth were carried out totalling £79,158.96 excl. VAT. The final bill came to £114,197.61 incl. VAT. The odometer reading recorded on the invoice was ‘187’.
Developed to be the finest driving variant of the P1 by the men who ran the 1995 Le Mans-winning McLaren F1 GTR, this P1 LM is totally box-fresh with minimal distance covered since delivery. As an ‘heir to the F1 LM’, of which only five, too, were made, the car is rare, packs the ultimate in performance – and is the first example to be available since originally sold.