Lanzante, a British racing specialist, took the cover off of its special-edition P1 GT at the Goodwood Festival of Speed mid-July, a longtailed hypercar throwing back to the trio of F1 GT homologation cars McLaren itself built back in 1997.

The characteristic extension to the rear mimics that worn by those F1s 20 years ago, as does the paint, a match for the retro Silverstone Green the F1 GT prototype wore.

The car, commissioned by a customer in the Middle East, is expected to expand performance-wise on the P1 LM that the company promised last year it’d build six of.

Those cars were based on the 986-horsepower McLaren P1 GTR but significantly lightened via cheats like plastic windows and upgraded exhausts; they boasted 40-percent more downforce, a curb weight some 60 kg lower, and broke records for street-legal cars at the Nurburgring and at the Goodwood hill climb.

While it’s only announced the one car so far, the rumour is Lanzante could be convinced to build two more to match the three-unit production run of the 1997 McLaren F1 GT.