If you choose to name your car after a famous racing driver, you better make sure the car lives up to the respects that reflects their glory.

Isn't just cashing in, especially if that racing driver is at center what he achieved, what he stood for.

Perhaps the purest, most focused racing driver there has ever seen.

This is the car that bears his name.

It's the 789 horsepower, £750,000 McClaren center.

Now McClaren is really the only car company that could put his name on one of their cars.

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41 Gran Prix winds came while driving a McClaren all three of his F one world championships.

But besides, the results center is remembered for his incredible drives.

There was Monaco in 1984 Donington in 1993 Estoril in 1985 s Trail is where he won his first ever Grand Prix on.

For us, it's the start of an epic road trip from here, 2000 kilometers to a place called home and where his racing was at its most dominant.

We're driving the McClaren Center to Monica Way left a door with a mission to be in Monaco the following night got straight down to cracking out miles.

Having to drive across significant portions of Portugal, Spain and France does inevitably mean spending a lot of time on motorways.

Now the first thing to mention is the vibrations you feel.

You get them through the steering wheel, you get them through the seat, and we're also getting them through the camera.

Then there's the seat itself.

It's a single piece of carbon with some leather pads attached.

And so after a while, your bum goes numb and has no ideal.

Now the view out is fabulous.

He's actually got really good vision at the front, and there's a big gap between the A pillars and the mirrors to see through even the view out the backs.

Not too bad.

I really like these glass panels as you're driving along the motorway.

There, sort of the white lines flash past like Morse code moving onto refinement on DDE in order of intrusiveness.

We have the engine, which is you can tell just, um, it's a fairly flat droney Blair.

Then there's the tires.

Now.

They're not bad on this service.

You get them on concrete and it's really hard to have a conversation in here.

And then there's the wind.

You get this or hiss of air passing around the car on the suck of it, going into the intakes and then a ll.

This noise bounces around the cop in here because there's not a lot of padding in a carbon cabin, and then we come to the way the Senate travels along the road surface.

Now it uses this very clever hydraulic suspension system with these intelligent dampers that do an amazing job of keeping the body level when you're on a circuit.

But when you're on a road, it's really quite jiggly, and you find yourself so.

Being buffeted slightly in the seat have to say that steering feel is fabulous.

It's just a lovely car to just change lanes.

In one last thing.

The center actually defaults into sport mode, so if you want it to get it into comfort, you have to press the active button on twist the dials.

Does that make much difference?

No, not really.

You're always aware that center would be very much happier if it was on a track, and it is the world's fastest road legal car.

That's the pitch for the center, employing active aero at the front and rear to develop 800 kilos of downfalls and weighing under 1200 kilos around Estrella on road legal tires.

The center is only five seconds slower than a full house GT three racing car at the end of the main street, doing 175 miles an hour.

You can sail past the 200 meter ball and still make the apex returned.

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There's no baby s Jerry.

You just hit the pedal absolutely as hard as you can and tyres down for two carbon discs.

Do the rest.

Then there's the way it turns in here.

The active Aero works in harmony with the hydraulic suspension to keep us on a level unstable even when braking and turning at the same time.

Can you feel the force absolutely through quick cause you just turn in winds on hold on, putting your faith in the air.

Oh, unable to believe the grip.

There is a drawback to downforce.

Even when the wing flattens off a high speed, it's still causes considerable drag, so even with 789 horsepower, doing the pushing acceleration naturally tails off.

I think that would be different.

Very helpful for us.

There's an excellent mountain range that separates Spain from Frantz.

The parodies on the roads up here are on this car.

I was concerned about it off track.

It just feels to track focused.

But now here it's Stella, and I know this road surfaces, but the steering, the feed back, the way the power comes in, I'd love to drive it with a 6 75 lt as well, just to see how they just like it did.

On the track is the way of transitions from breaking to turning that so smooth on the brakes, which, when you use it on the motorway in in any other normal use just to firm there too solid.

They're not giving you the retardation, the bite you need.

But when you start driving it and you could just push and push and push the pedal, they're amazing.

Absolutely amazing.

There is a little bit of understeer, but the traction, the way feels itself out.

Corners on town force isn't playing too much of a role here.

It's much more about the mechanical grip in the mechanical grip.

I feel sorry for the tires.

I really like to, because they've got a lot.

There is a little bit more lack of the slow corners, but it is no bad once you've got it beyond 4000 reps.

There's just so much thrust to it, and it doesn't feel so turbocharged then.

It just feels that here we go very, very fast indeed.

Have said, I've said that on track.

It didn't feel that fast.

In the real world, it feels ridiculous.

I have a wood.

I'm so glad I'm so glad.

It's not just a tract.

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People will be able to use it and enjoy it in other places.

I've just got this sneaking.

Suspicion that not many other people are going to get there is covered in Kalmar.

These roads a tremendous, quiet, populated Maur by wildlife and humans on with such variety, from long straights to hairpins, twists through rocks and one section with road loops back over itself.

The second you cross into France, the surface deteriorates.

This is a French motorway, and it's just a noisy as a Spanish motorway.

So yesterday was all about getting from Lisbon up to the pyramids and that was a fabulous day.

Today it's all about getting on to Monaco and I already know I've got my distances quite a long way out.

I reckon it'll be about 2000 kilometres in total.

We've already done over 1900 I'm sure we're at least three or 400 still to G O and it's not like the center is very economical.

Rear wing on the back deck basically acts like a parachute and that means that even on a motorway we're only doing 20 or 21 to the gallon.

We're only getting about 200 miles from a tank of fuel, so we've had to stop a lot.

I think we've stopped to refuel about eight or nine times once from a Jerry can, something else I should have thought about.

That's what I'm wearing because everyone drives past taking pictures of the car.

What they're actually seeing is my pasty white knees.

We had a gorgeous sunset motorway emptying is the traffic died away and then we arrived in Monaco.

Casino Square was chaotic, so we went in search of Monaco's racing heritage corners air made his own this journey.

Then it's the kind of trip you'd like to think at would have vanished a chance to de stress after a race to just enjoy the act of driving.

Is it one owner might do with that car?

I'd love to hope so.

But somehow, the McClaren said, is not a racing car, but its mission statement is one errand center would surely be familiar with to be the fastest.

This car is focused and determined as the man whose name it bears.