To make sure Car and Driver set a “representative” lap in the Senna, McLaren brought pro driver Andre D’Cruze to the magazine’s “Lightning Lap” event. Yet it was the magazine’s testing director K.C. Colwell that set

For reference, a Porsche 911 GT2 RS—the previous record holder—was 2.9 seconds slower, a McLaren 600LT Spider was 6.7 seconds slower and a Porsche 918 Spyder was a full 8.2 seconds slower around the same track in C/D’s testing.

A quick glance at the speedo in the $1 million, 789 horsepower McLaren Senna showed I was knocking…

The whole thing was recorded and uploaded to C/D’s YouTube channel and looks genuinely violent. The $964,966 car is frighteningly quick through the corners, maintaining an average pace of 134.5 mph and topping out at 172.9 mph on a straightaway.

Car and Driver had a lot of great cars at Lightning Lap this year, so it’s worth checking that includes everything from the Senna and Porsche 911 GT3 RS to the Lamborghini Urus and Hyundai Veloster N.