REVIEW: The Pagani Huayra R might be the most gloriously unnecessary car in the world - and it's absolutely stunning to drive. Our verdict on the track-only special:
race car on track, a howling, yowling exhaust note echoing around the empty grandstands. Are we sharing a track with a Ferrari 412 T2? Leaning over the pit wall reveals that the noise is actually coming from the Pagani factory's Huayra R demonstrator, at a volume that will surely exceed the limits at almost every track in the world. Apparently, there is a quieter exhaust option, but Pagani has been allowed to come to Vallelunga with what are basically straight pipes.
Horacio Pagani insisted on a switch from the twin-turbocharged V12 of the regular Huayra to reduce mass and improve responses, but the new 6.0-litre unit still makes 838bhp and revs to 9000rpm. It drives the rear wheels through a Hewland dog-ring transmission. It also needs to propel just 1050kg of dry mass. So let’s call it around 1200kg with fluids and an average-size driver.
Despite integral air jacks to make wheel changing easier, and which drop me excitingly as the engine is fired into life, getting rolling is easy, thanks to an anti-stall system and an electrically controlled clutch.
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