McLaren Senna was a Secret LeMans Car - ISSIMI Spotlight feat. Jason Cammisa - Ep. 04
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- It doesn’t matter how the McLaren Senna looks to our eyes, it only matters that it’s beautiful to the wind. That’s because the Senna’s sole mission was to beat every other street-legal car around every race track in the world. To do that, it needed aerodynamic efficiency and downforce.
Normal supercars have to be all things to its buyers - a multi-tool, if you will - but the Senna was so sharply focused on laptimes that it could forego things like sound deadening and fully opening windows.
Insider information suggests that the P15 project was originally meant to become McLaren’s entry for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but changes to sanctioning-body rulebooks and speed bumps in the company’s financial situation derailed that goal. Instead, the P15 morphed into the Senna, which as the company’s most extreme street-legal Ultimate-Series car, would help recoup its development costs.
As a specialized tool to perform one job - being fast around a track - this McLaren is a screaming success. Today, the Senna holds many production-car lap records.
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ISSIMI’s “Spotlight” series gives automotive enthusiasts and collectors an in-depth look at rare, interesting, and important cars. “Spotlight” is an editorial wiki video that, first and foremost, provides context, answering the question “why is this car important?”
With his trademark balance of insight and comedy, automotive journalist Jason Cammisa combines the facts with editorial insight, allowing the audience to walk away with a cursory understanding of each featured car. Wherever possible, Spotlight will include driving footage and acceleration footage with high-quality audio to provide a first-person experience of sight, sound, and motion that words alone never could.
ISSIMI is an enthusiast-owned, full-service specialist offering sales, consignment, collection management, service, and consulting to discerning enthusiasts and collectors. Specializing in complex transactions that include international services for exceptional cars, ISSIMI’s San Francisco Bay Area and Europe-based teams of experts pride themselves on transparency and knowledge. ISSIMI also produces enthusiast editorial media, including “Spotlight,” “Jason Cammisa on the Icons,” “The Carmudgeon Show,” and “Proper Care & Feeding of Cars.” Some of the vehicles featured in these editorial products, including the subjects in this Spotlight video, may be listed for sale through ISSIMI’s platform. Please check ISSIMI.com for more information.
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This car lit the car industry on fire, and then lit itself on fire
You mean like the Miura did?
Husein Amin nothing like crashing through the gates of heaven backwards in a flaming Lamborghini.
Yea , they admitted , faulty material above the fuel tank ☹
And current owners pocket books.
@@Mashburn007 Really? Proof?
This dude is the best car journalist that is BOTH entertaining and has insane knowledge about cars. Change My Mind
No i wont
This dude and donut media?
Would you prefer a lobotomy or drug-induced psychosis for your mind change?
Chris Harris
Jermey Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond
8:20 Yup, can confirm. I once got trapped in an underground carpark because of those... Was filming the car and the owner left after a couple moments, telling me to meet him outside once I’m done. I eventually stepped inside the car (left my backpack and phone outside the car) and closed the door. Without a phone or the owners manual, I just couldn’t find the „door handles“. They are not even marked as something that opens the doors... Luckily the owner came back down after 40ish minutes
How long did it take for him to stop laughing?
@@arcanum3000 X D
The Racing Monkey I like your videos please keep going
Really?
This channel is way too underrated
yeah man
Unfortunately it's a bit boring here . Jason please leave this studio and drive !!
i think they have two channels, bcos i saw jason cammisa on @hagerty channel also. and he even become more hilarious there talking about old cars 🤣👍🏻
The fact that this channel is under de mill subs is beyond me.
the fact that this channel is under de 100k is beyond me.
@@fuse. Hopefully, it'll get there! All great things have a starting.
You have to start somewhere.
This channel is only half a year old. It took hoovie's garage 4 years to get to a million subs, and apparently he runs the "dumbest automotive channel on TH-cam", so I suspect it'll happen for Issimi much quicker. By the time i get my first car, 3 years, I think Issimi will have a million.
Agreed this channel should be exploding
this channel is so underrated you guys should have at least 10M subs
the guy is a TWIRP !
@@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm ok boomer
idgi because half the episodes are on hagerty which has almost 2 mil im not sure why episodes are posted on different channels this one must be newer w how low the subs are and will probably go up as these keep getting posted
“At a race track in France. You may have heard of it?”
Circuit Paul Ricard.
I knew it
The first person who comments on me being old, fat, and sweaty gets a pipe wrench to the gullet. 🤪
😂
ah.... nvm
Great Video! The shoes man, the shoes. Funniest part!
@@llys3742 Brown-chicken-brown-cow!
More of these please we can't get enough
Such a cool spec. Especially when it matches your P1!
It is sinister. The exposed carbon has such depth that perfectly matches the sharp white.
I didn’t see a P1 in the video, unless I missed it. Who’s the owner?
@@spoolindsm127 Instagram: @spec.my.senna
the hell does 'ISSIMI' mean?
Perfect review this. It had jokes, critiques, real information and the interviewer wasnt scared to bash the car a little bit. And this last one is very important because i am sick of reviews that give all 11 grades to everything about the car when the car is obviously flawed.
Not a review, for all of the reasons you've just listed.
Less jokes would have made it better...
I haven't even finished the video yet and you're already getting a like for the Airplane reference 👏👏👏
YUUAAASSSS!
JasonCammisa That’s just what they expect us to do.
@@JasonCammisa Jason you're amazing
"What's your Vector, Victor?
This was yet another amazing insight into an amazing automobile. Also, these blue heels suit you quite well, Mr. Cammisa.
The shoes killed me 😂😂😂
Spotlight is your best series. We need more episodes like these
I have been going back re-watching some of your old videos. I absolutely adore that you get paid to be yourself, rarely to the detriment of the content. The fact that you are having a visibly great time doing your shtick is both impressive and inspiring. I, like many others, are in awe of your general car knowledge and ability to put that into entertaining terms. As always, keep up the great work! Hyphen is also good, just a little less effervescent than you.
Jason has set the bar so high I can barely tolerate other automotive journalists. 💪💪💪
Excellent video! Am I'm probably one of the few people that ABSOLUTELY LOVE the looks of the Senna! Why? Because it looks radical, crazy, insane and unlike anything else! And from certain angles very much like an F1 car.
Literally the best car videos in the game
Honestly the Senna looks gorgeous with various kind of bodylines
Yeh I don't think it looks good with bright or fancy paint colours. Keep it simple, keep it classy FTW. Black or White, is good enough for me.
Function over Form
As an F1 fan and a Car fan I love that this wasn't created by the Marketing Department trying to leverage the name of the man who led McLaren to multiple World Titles and is still most people's GOAT. Even though naming it Senna was done after it's design was put in place it still feels absolutely appropriate, the car is suitably insane, with it's focus on track performance astonishing. If ANY car were to be called Senna it'd be this one.
Also if you're new to the Senna and this is the first you've seen of it, go look at it in the press/media paint job, they give it a real 80's vibe and make the car look much better than in white which looks clean but uninspiring.
@Stein Mauer Not at all. Curiously who do you have as GOAT?
It's hard to write a script that is concise, funny and still informative. Nailed it Jason. Also production quality is 🔝
Well done. Love all the details. And very high production value. Can’t believe I just found this channel
Loving these "here's the background and why it's cool" keep it up guys!!
Message to Jason Cammisa: Your a gem to the car community, another awesome review as usual.
Message to the Camera Guy: C'mon man just record in 4K, cameras are good enough now to record in high res cause when the editor likes to do a 200% zoom on the footage to emphasize something it shouldn't look blurry.
This is the way you share knowledge as a journalist. The Senna hasnt move an inch and this video was great! It would be awesome that you review cars, as you have done couple times, alone on mt . The review of the Aston Martin and the LC500 was both masterpiece reviews.
Well done Shirley
This deserves way more views
From France with passion and respect ✌🏼🇨🇵😎
Bro i swear this show is the spiritual successor to the Clarkson, Hammond and May car reviews on Top Gear and TGT.
Dude it would have been funny if it was johnny who he hit with a wrench out of nowhere. 😊
Derrick is our new bae. Johnny who..? 🤔
Must_Tang Boss Jonny Lieberman..
Glad to have you back on youtube man! Missed your particular flair for automotive passion and humor. Cheers!
I actually think the Senna is beautiful, even right up there with the E-type, "form follows function".
Same
I have missed your journalism. I am so glad you have a platform now.
Guys.. keep up the good work. I’m sure in less than a year you will reach millions of followers.
Its fascinating to me how things designed primarily with aerodynamics in mind are so often aesthetically beautiful.
An F15 or Su35 or SR71 was not designed to be beautiful. They were designed purely by aerodynamic considerations. But they are so beautiful. Form follows function, which CAN and often does result in beautiful form.
I wonder about the evolutionary biology behind that. Why we find aerodynamic things beautiful. From an F15 fighter jet to aero cars, all the way to a Peregrine Falcon.
Between this and Hagerty, I’m here for all this amazing automotive content!
Jason has to be my fav car journalist
Man the p1 and the senna whistling turbos sounds gives you goosebumps
Top gear should be hosted by this guy, period.
These might be my favorite automotive videos on youtube right now!!! great work at being not only insanely informative but hilarious as well
As usual, a great video Jason. But i was left disappointed that you didnt mention the All Time Great the car was named after.
Though I would agree that Mclaren itself did him a disservice by turning the P15 into this machine rather than start off by planning to create an homage for the Legend called Ayrton Senna
This whole video is much more informative and entertaining than a lot of others out there! Keep going Cammisa!
The Senna looks lovely
@JasonCammisa it's so nice of you to mention Circuit Paul Ricard so much
All sennas should have came with painted roofline like this one, makes the car look way better
Anything with Jason cammisa in it is worth watching. Idc if he’s talking about bicycles or couches, I’m gonna watch it
Anyone else impressed by the choice of those particular high heels? Idk much about heels, but the blue lace was certainly weight saving. 🤣
Jason, keep making these videos, you are the car guy millions will refer to when they think to buy the very next car
There is a really bad misconception at 1:45 about weight. Weight does not help you turn. Yes, weight gives you more downward force on the tires, but also increases the force pushing the car outward. The net result would be no change in grip, if you upsize the tires to deal with the extra heat. At the same tire size, grip is reduced. I suspect the host knows this and perhaps just a poor choice of words, trying to fit them into a short sound bite.
Excellent video. Subscribed.
first time I've seen this channel, love the combination of clear presenting, proper research and clever production.
Whoever spec’d this did a phenomenal job. First time the Senna looks good.
These Spotlight vids are amazing - KEEP them coming!
Watched a hundred progs about the senna, learnt more from this than any of em.
Not a big fan of the channel, tbh, but this was brilliant.
Thanks for uploading 🍀
What I learned from this video: the wind sure has a very different taste than our eyes do!
Yeah, nobody drives a Prius for its looks. Ugly as hell but that's the shape you want for fuel efficiency.
@@djsjjd15 not so sure if they wind tested a freaking prius and shaped it accordingly. it doesn't even go so fast that it would really make a big difference. it's just an ugly car because it needs to suit too many people while cheaping out on everything including design
Bro!
That boy Jason can make any car sound sophisticated.😊🚗🚗.
I love all of it!!!!!!!
Thank you jason, it's 11:55pm CST and this is what I needed to end my weekday.
what is CST
That was amazing. The car, the host, it all made the universe better. I did NOT see enough of those high heals however.
Second video of yours so far. I'm loving the channel.
Yes! Another video with Jason!
The music on this vid is superb!
Hey Jason, the hydraulic anti-roll system is ingenious to me and overlooked by many, particularly the ability to stop front to back roll. Would you like to see this more widely adopted or does it remove the fun drama of body inertia?
From what others have told me (not necessarily just from the Senna or other active-control McLarens), the absence of felt body roll makes it much harder to judge weight transfer by the seat of the pants.
It seems odd to me that the ability to reduce dive and squat is seen as significant. Stiffer springs or conventional dampers with more compression damping do the same job, and you can reduce the stiffness of your roll bars to keep the cornering behavior consistent.
It took McLaren a huge amount of work from a team of extremely intelligent people to develop that system to where it needed to be for a supercar manufacturer.* Being a high pressure linked hydraulic system, the maintenance bills will probably be ruinous in 10+ years as well like some older Rolls models that used Citroen(?)'s hydraulic suspension. Adapting that technology to a lower price point without throwing the baby out with the bath water would not be an easy or straightforward engineering exercise by any means.
* Check out Chris Harris' Collecting Cars podcast episode with Chris Goodwin for more info on the development of the cross-linked hydraulic suspension.
Teneco/mode decoupled FSAE car
Oh yes!
Ha. Finaly found you. Jason. I always looking for your video.
Another great video Jason. Thanks for making it .
Awesome video! I’m new to this channel, but loving it so far. Subbed!
Looks like the whole front clip is an exercise in Aero technology . I love this car!!!
Another great episode.
That was a very well researched body fluid reference 3:23 , while keeping it dry…
I love how the high heels match the interior color.
"Not traditionally sexy" means f* ugly. It's as you say a track tool - but for a private driver it might be pretty expensive to run. Great and entertaining review as always - btw from whom did you get the blue high heels - which good looking lady is missing them? :)
the Senna GTR was even been benchmarked for the proposed "Hypercar" class that'll replaces the LMP1 class in the next few years, so let that sink in
The hypercar class is a joke
Wait... You're telling me McLaren's premier V8 engine used in almost all thier modern cars are derived from Nissan???
With steering wheels from Mazda!
Wow these are coming quickly now. But i am certanly not complaining about that!
Jason Cammisa is a great presenter. So engaging, if a little.....quirky shall we say! Also the Senna is another example that a not so 'aesthetic pleasing' looking car look good in white.
I can see fernando buying it to scream “GP2 Engine”. Looool.
Get on the Joe Rogan Podcast... This channel will blow up as it should!
Wouldn't work as Joe knows jackshit about any of what Jason is talking about.
Never knew about the original plan for the Senna - great vid!
they totally missed the opportunity to call it the McLaren Le-Mans. A successor to the McLaren F1 that incorporated a lot of F1 Tech...
I respect the hell out of the Senna, it performs amazingly. And everything you're saying is absolutely correct, Jason.
I just don't like it. For the money I'd rather have a P1.
The Senna drives better than the P1 in my opinion. Its more predictable and neutral. The P1 is twitchy and snaps liftoff oversteer that can be a bitch to catch. Much like driving a Porsche Carrera GT. The P1 looks more seemless, I'll give you that.
@Amarjit Singh It beat the Vulcan's ass at Eboladrome by nearly 4 seconds! And the Vulcan's not even road legal. Every track the Senna's been to,it has conquered.
@@ShadowGodOfDarkness yes however the Valhalla will be faster. The AMG One and Valkarie will be a whole different level. Excited to see the next wave of cars.
This spec is absolutely spot on👌👌 Top class.
Jason shud be the new face of Top Gear.... Just amazing
My new favorite channel!
Hot damn Jason can host a show.
This is criminally underrated.
Jason is one smart witty guy. Thanks for entertaining and informative show.
Fair play to people going off at its design. I mean McLaren is getting things done but we've seen extreme track weapons that are still attractive in the past and we know more are coming in the future. So the function over form argument is kinda a tough sell when faster and better looking cars are proving possible by good number.
Finally a host that gives downforce with speed. Thank you.
Hey Cammisa I couldn't help but notice you're doing these spotlight cars on things in issimi's innovatory does that mean a Huayra roadster video is in the works after hearing Randy talk about it recently on vinwiki I'd love to hear what you have to say about it
That was the BC not the Roadster. I would like a spotlight on any of the versions of the car as I like them all.
@@eichler721 that's true but the roadster shares a lot more in common with the bc than the standard coupe from the reworked suspension and the newly developed chassis (it even got a bump in hp over the bc) the core difference is the 200 lbs weight differential between the two
This is so good. You should consider to travel to Britain and become a tv presenter. I heard they are running out of them.
Great video Jason!
Thank you for talking about it’s nissan powa!!
I'm not a believer that to be a good track car looks don't matter. Plenty of quality track cars look good. The vid has some nice insight
The content in this channel are GREAT!
Love the vids fam keep it coming never new Mclaren used someone else's motor very interesting
That's not the correct conclusion to draw. The M838T 3.8L, not used in the Senna, was developed by a company that bought the rights to an engine project Nissan was hosting for Le Mans. The 4.0L in the Senna is a long way past that first step in engine development process.
It actually looks good in white!👏👏👏
Nothing make that front overhang look good in profile hahaha but yes it looks better in white in 3/4.
Just so everyone is aware, ten grams shaved from the brake calipers is worth far more than shaving ten grams from the cabin... but they should have saved weight with the rotating dual screen though.
nicely explained Jason
love this type of content. keep it up!