{"id":92008,"date":"2024-10-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/?p=92008"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:24:48","slug":"seloc-editorial-mclaren-w1-and-the-problem-of-using-1-275-ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2024\/10\/06\/seloc-editorial-mclaren-w1-and-the-problem-of-using-1-275-ps\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren W1 and the problem of using 1,275 PS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The W1 has 1,275 PS and sends it through the rear wheels. The first question that raises is how early a driver can actually use the throttle. Power that arrives predictably as you unwind the steering is worth more than a big number that only comes into play once the car is straight.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/00\/2025_McLaren_W1_FOS25.jpg\" alt=\"McLaren W1 at Goodwood in 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><figcaption>McLaren W1 at Goodwood in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:2025_McLaren_W1_FOS25.jpg\">MrWalkr \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The W1 follows the F1 and P1, and its V8 hybrid system takes the recipe into another league of complexity. It also has to deal with the ordinary problems of a quick car: cold tyres, a damp patch on corner exit and a driver who may only take it to a circuit once or twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s familiar territory to anyone who has driven a much less powerful car in the wet. The numbers are extraordinary. The need to feel what the rear tyres are doing is the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interesting bit of McLaren\u2019s 1,275 PS W1 is getting the power to the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[936,938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seloc-editorial-archive","category-supercars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92070,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92008\/revisions\/92070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}