---
title: "Watch Bruno Senna Blast Around a Racetrack in the McLaren Senna"
description: "Bruno Senna does his uncle Ayrton proud by flogging the car named after the legendary Formula 1 driver around a racetrack."
date: "2018-05-18"
modified: "2018-05-18"
authors:
  - name: "Chris Constantine"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/chris-constantine"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/20955/watch-bruno-senna-blast-around-a-racetrack-in-the-mclaren-senna"
categories:
  - "McLaren News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Ayrton Senna"
  - "Bruno Senna"
  - "Coupe"
  - "Formula 1"
  - "Hypercar"
  - "mclaren"
  - "Senna"
  - "Supercar"
---

# Watch Bruno Senna Blast Around a Racetrack in the McLaren Senna

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2018/05/senna-in-a-senna.jpg>)
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McLaren is touting the new Senna Ultimate Series hypercar as the most insane track-focused production car it's ever built, but we've hardly seen it travel around a track [at more than a snail's pace](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/19457/watch-the-mclaren-senna-make-its-track-debut-at-the-goodwood-members-meeting>), let alone set a lap record. While we'll have to wait for McLaren to put its money where its mouth is lap record-wise, some lucky people have already had a go in the car, including one of [Ayrton Senna's](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/20554/ayrton-senna-a-peek-into-a-racers-life-24-years-after-his-death>) nephews, Bruno Senna.

In a video uploaded by McLaren's YouTube [channel](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiWQ5eQPkw2BX2L4jeHKEVQ>), FIA World Endurance Championship driver and Ayrton's [nephew](<https://www.thedrive.com/start-finish/16835/bruno-senna-rounds-out-united-autosports-lineup-for-rolex-24-at-daytona>) is given command of the Senna's reins on a race track all to himself. Donning his iconic yellow and green helmet inspired by his uncle's headgear, Senna rips around the track at speeds only someone with the blood of a Brazilian race car driver could, and he has a lot to say after his fast lap.

"I waited a really long time for a road car to perform like a race car, and this is it, this is the real deal," Senna explains. "It's literally the most brutal, fastest road car I've ever driven. I couldn't believe it."

From the car's ultra-sensitive steering to its ability to stop on a dime (or as he calls it, "like a single-seater"), McLaren may have built the most hardcore road car yet, and now it has the approval of the family it takes its name from.

https://youtube.com/embed/b9zmM\_aELgw

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