Official Driving Experences - Pure McLaren

[tankplanker]

Has anybody completed either the Experience or Performance Academy offered as part of the Pure McLaren offering? I usually do an experience every birthday and I rather fancy driving a McLaren, but I'm not paying that much if they excessively rev limit the car or you get little actual track time.

[tankplanker]

johnnyreggae said:

Can't find it on the website - how much is the non-owner experience ?

The Experience is ~£2k, the Academy starts at ~£4.7k rising to ~£8.6k and depends on your driving ability/level of training desired.

Not cheap but then if you actually get to drive the car it would be worth it to me. I've done the official Merc driving experiences in the Black Series C class and they let you thrash it, but other experiences they rev limit you far too much (~60% of max revs in all gears) and frankly I regretted paying for them.

Overview:
http://cars.mclaren.com/home/experiences/pure-mcla...

Costs:
https://r1.dotmailer-surveys.com/d01ws378-bb1n2k66

[tankplanker]

That looks like an amazing passenger lap Ian 100!

isaldiri said:

Not sure about the experience but the performance academy is like the Ferrari pilota course. You can and do drive plenty (half hour intervals driving alternating with data analysis and believe me it's enough driving time) and the instructor assigned to you is meant to push you as far as your ability allows.

Do they let you really push the car hard?

[tankplanker]

That sounds awesome, I better get saving, thanks for taking the time to reply!