FOUR months delayed, Pagani has lastly debuted the Huayra R, the quickest and most track-focused automobile it has produced to this point.
The Huayra R is so track-honed actually that it’s not really highway authorized anyplace on the earth, which in response to Pagani founder and CEO Horacio Pagani, is precisely the purpose.
“In 2008 we had been engaged on the Huayra, a really difficult and demanding venture from an engineering and stylistic perspective,” he mentioned.
“After so a few years, I felt an awesome want for freedom and that’s how the Zonda R took place, a monitor automobile free from constraints and rules.
“Stunning, high-performing and protected. The Huayra R, identical to the Zonda R, is the freest, most excessive and performance-oriented Pagani automobile of all time.”
This essence of freedom and efficiency is mirrored in nearly facet of the Huayra R, particularly in its styling and headline figures.
Wanting prefer it has come straight from the grid of a one-make race sequence, the R is decrease, longer and extra aggressive than any Huayra that has come earlier than it, together with the super-exclusive Imola.
Regardless of carrying the Huayra nameplate and having the identical core styling options because the manufacturing mannequin, the Huayra R shares nearly no parts with the usual automobile and is powered by a totally totally different engine.
As a substitute of the acquainted AMG-sourced twin-turbocharged 6.0-litre V12, Pagani has fitted the R with a racecar-derived naturally aspirated 6.0-litre V12 creating 625kW at 8250rpm and 750Nm of torque accessible between 5500-8300 rpm.
Whereas peak energy is developed at 8250rpm, the bespoke 12-cylinder will carry on revving to a screaming 9000rpm redline.
“The brand new engine needed to have the allure, romance, sound and ease of the F1 engines of the Nineteen Eighties, whereas incorporating state-of-the-art expertise accessible as we speak,” Mr Pagani mentioned.
With brute power an apparent precedence, engineers additionally needed the engine to be as gentle as doable which is why the entire engine weighs simply 198kg.
Drive is shipped solely to the rear wheels through a specifically developed six-speed sequential transmission.
Underpinned by a Carbo-Titanium and Carbo-Triax monocoque, the Huayra R boasts a dry weight of simply 1050kg with carbon-fibre getting used extensively for the physique and overwhelming majority of the inside.
Regardless of the immense energy and inherent lack of weight – leading to a power-to-weight ratio of 604kW per tonne – Pagani has not quoted any key efficiency figures for the Huayra R, nevertheless it has confirmed it’ll do greater than 320km/h and generate greater than 1000kg of downforce in doing so.
Suspension duties are taken care of entrance and rear by cast aluminium alloy impartial double wishbones with helical springs and electronically managed shock absorbers whereas the brakes come courtesy of Brembo.
Monolithic six-piston callipers function in all 4 corners and clamp ventilated 410x38mm discs upfront and 390x34mm models on the rear, additionally ventilated.
Overlaying these brakes are a set of 19-inch APP cast monolithic aluminium alloy wheels, shod entrance and rear by slick Pirelli P Zeros.
In keeping with Mr Pagani, the Huayra R is a “automobile sculpted for efficiency” for a “very intimate membership of true adrenaline seekers”.
It stays to be seen but precisely what number of Huayra Rs enter manufacturing, nevertheless if the Zonda R was something to go by, we might anticipate there to be lower than 20.
