Hypercars are Futuristicgadgets. Even watching them bring joys & If you get a chance to drive one, well It going to be a joyful experience you never forget.
What is Considered a Hypercar?
A hypercar considers what’s being done and moves beyond it. Performance — and particularly top speed and acceleration — is the key determining factor, though there are no agreed-upon demarcations. The hypercar designation is fluid with where engineering is at the time. What’s clear is that a hypercar is going to outperform the supercars on the market.
For instance, a supercar like the Ferrari 488 GTB has a top speed of 205 mph and is able to jump from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds — impressive numbers, no doubt. But those numbers are dwarfed by a true hypercar like the Ferrari LaFerrari, which can reach a top speed of 218 mph and jump from a standstill to 60 mph in 2.4 seconds, obliterating even formidable performers.
If, at a certain point, the term supercar is defined as “you know it when you see it,” the hypercar definition is “faster than a supercar.”
The McLaren F1 GTR was the racing version of the 241mph three-seater. Woking then revived the initials for a track-only version of the P1 hybrid supercar. And it brought them back for an even faster, more furious evolution of the circuit-focussed Senna. Got it? Good.
Weirdly, the Senna GTR is actually better looking than the road car. It doesn’t need to make allowances for crash legislation or being parkable, so McLaren went fully crackers with it. The whole car is 225mm longer than the street-ready Senna, thanks to a longer splitter and bigger diffuser, while in between them you’ll find slick tyres. Peak downforce is up from 800kg to a whole tonne. Only 75 were built. To go faster in a track-ready McLaren, you’ll require Lando and Danny Ric’s weekend wheels.
Aston Martin, like Ferrari, has produced front- and mid-engined track-only hypercars. There was the Vulcan, which was part One-77, part heat-seeking missile, and then there’s this: the track-only version of the Valkyrie, which is supposed to be an F1 car for the road.
The AMR Pro has a much more extreme aero package than the road-worthy Valkyrie, and also ditches the standard car’s hybrid system. It’s only driven by a Cosworth V12, good for 1,000bhp and 11,000rpm. Only 40 will be built, complete with carbon fibre suspension and full carbon brakes. Aston Martin says it can post comparable lap times to recent LMP1 racing cars. But we want to see it go for the big prize at Le Mans…
Ferrari’s ‘XX’ programme really kicked off the whole ‘here’s a supercar you can’t race, can’t drive to the shops, and you’ll have to pay huge money to get one’ game. The FXX was an Enzo turned up to eleventy stupid, then we got the 599 XX, which was a sort of cross between a front-engined V12 and a Batmobile.
The FXX K (that’s K for KERS, because of the hybrid boost element) looked like it’d reached the zenith of Ferrari lunacy by stripping a LaFerrari of all road-going sensibility and turning power up to 1,036bhp. It generated 540kg of downforce at 124mph, and topped out at almost twice that.
Enough? Nope. The ‘Evo’ version of the FXX K has an aero pack meaning 23 per cent more downforce, while the car is 90kg lighter than the FXX K. It is the Ferrari to be seen in at a private track day.
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