Lanzante's 95-59 gets the wing McLaren fitted to only eight F1s
Lanzante's 95-59 revives the most coveted option on the original McLaren F1
Lanzante's 95-59 is getting its most extreme option. The first renderings of the High Downforce Kit, or HDK, show a fixed carbon rear wing, a roof-mounted air scoop and a reworked nose on the three-seat, £1.2 million supercar. It will be offered on all 59 cars. The name and the idea both come from McLaren, which fitted its own HDK to just eight F1 road cars.
Lanzante's HDK gives the 95-59 a fixed wing, roof scoop and new nose
The HDK replaces the 750S-derived active spoiler with a fixed carbon wing, shaped after the one on the F1 GTR, whose endplates run back past the rear wheels. The front bumper is new, the bonnet gains extra vents, carbon side skirts fill the sills, and a scoop sits on the roof. Five-spoke centre-lock wheels complete it. Lanzante confirmed the kit at The Quail during Monterey Car Week in August and says it is still in development.
McLaren fitted its F1 High Downforce Kit to only eight road cars
McLaren's original High Downforce Kit was fitted to eight F1 road cars, most of them upgraded at the factory around 2000 and 2001. It brought a carbon rear wing, a bigger front splitter, louvres over the front arches, two extra radiators and a transmission cooler, and it made more downforce than the 1995 Le Mans-winning GTR. Only two cars also received the 680 hp LM-spec engine; RM Sotheby's has estimated one of them, chassis 018, at $21 to 23 million.
The Lanzante 95-59 turns the McLaren 750S V8 up to more than 850 hp
Underneath, the 95-59 is a McLaren 750S. Its 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 goes from 750 hp to more than 850 hp, with a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox driving the rear wheels. Former McLaren designer Paul Howse, who drew the P1 and 720S, penned the all-carbon body around a central driving seat. With the LM30 pack, which adds Inconel manifolds, a titanium exhaust and gold heat shields, Lanzante targets 1,250 kg.
Lanzante ran the #59 McLaren F1 GTR that won Le Mans in 1995
The 95-59 is named after the #59 McLaren F1 GTR that won the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours with Yannick Dalmas, JJ Lehto and Masanori Sekiya, a car Lanzante prepared and ran on McLaren's first visit to the race. It comes in the same Ueno Grey. The family has looked after F1s ever since, including Nick Mason's pop-art F1 GTR, converted for the road in 1999, and the firm has since made a Bugatti Bolide road-legal.
95-59 production starts in 2027 as the McLaren 750S nears its end
Lanzante plans to start building customer cars in early 2027, and about half of the 59 were spoken for by August. The price of £1.2 million, or roughly €1.4 million, includes the donor car. That timing matters, because the 750S is in the last stretch of a platform that began as the 720S in 2017, which makes the 95-59 one of the final cars built on it.
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Lanzante has picked the right thing to copy. Without the kit, the 95-59 is a handsome 750S with a middle seat; with it, the car carries the one option F1 collectors chase hardest, from the team that won Le Mans with the original. McLaren's HDK was never styling. It out-downforced a Le Mans winner, and one of its eight cars now carries a $21 million estimate.
More 95-59s will leave Lanzante with the HDK than McLaren ever built F1s with it, at least nine of the 59, before the first customer cars reach their owners in 2027. Buyers paying £1.2 million for a three-seat Le Mans tribute are not shopping for restraint, and this time they get a version with the downforce to match the story.
