2019 McLaren Senna: A Pet Racecar for Billionaires

Named for an F1 legend, this track-ready racer can reach 211 mph. But it’s really for billionaire civilians zooming out for coffee. Dan Neil takes one for a spin

BECAUSE CLOTHES maketh the man, McLaren issued me a drivers suit to strut around in during its April press event at Silverstone Circuit in central England, while I waited to drive the company’s latest ne plus ultra, the Senna. Woefully underdrive is more like it.

This was a rare audience. The F1 racing and luxury sports car concern based in Woking, England, will build a mere 500 of these zero-altitude aeroships, which are all already sold, thank you, for about $1 million apiece. Many will then disappear into private collections...