The Senna is the most extreme McLaren road car ever. Picture: McLaren.
The internet is full of footage showing drivers of performance cars running out of talent while trying to show off on public roads.
In many cases these metal-mangling perps are behind the wheel of a Ford Mustang. But in this video, we get to see an ultra-rare and ultra-expensive McLaren Senna supercar get treated and hurt in a heart-wrenching way.
The video, posted on Reddit by slattdemon99, shows the Senna driver hooning his way up Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles before coming to a halt to perform a doughnut in front of onlookers. The driver then screeches off up the road but quickly loses control of his supercar, crashing it into a Lexus dealership.
The video then cuts to the crash scene where we see extensive damage to the front-end of the McLaren after connecting with a concrete pillar outside the dealership.
McLaren Senna Crashes in LA
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Although not officially confirmed, it is widely believed that YouTuber Edmond ‘Mondi’ Barseghian was behind the wheel.
A few days earlier, Mondi posted a video boasting of his new green “one-of-one” Kiwi Edition McLaren Senna, which he described as “scary fast”.
The Senna, billed as McLaren’s most extreme road car ever when it was originally launched in 2017, is powered by a twin-turbo V8 that produces 588kW and 800Nm. With a 1,200kg kerb weight making it lighter than a Polo GTI, the carbon fibre-bodied Senna has an astounding power-to-weight ratio.
It is believed to be worth in the region of $1.2 million in the US, around R22.5 million at today’s exchange rate.
Given that an innocent bystander could have been hurt or killed here, this kind of behaviour on a public road is completely unforgivable. And it’s not like he couldn’t afford to hire out a track for the day.
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Sources: Reddit, Road & Track