McLaren might be the intelligent boy among all the supercar makers in the world, but they do like to make a fuss about everything. Unlike Porsche who just took their 918, set a time, and announced it, McLaren wants to tease us first. So they just announced that the P1 has posted a sub-seven-minute lap at the Nurburgring, and then set about explaining why it’s kind of a big deal.

They tell us about the fearsome corners of the 20.8 kilometres long Green Hell, and how the McLaren P1 achieved an average speed in excess of 178 km/h dealing with its 150 corners, 300 metres of elevation changes and cornering forces of up to 2g.

They have even made a cool short film to celebrate the bugger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9IWiTpWeiM

All this and they didn’t reveal the actual time. It makes you think the P1 was probably slower than the 918’s 6:57, otherwise McLaren would just out with it. But they didn’t. Instead, they got their F1 hotshot Jensen Button to comment on the occasion:

“I’ve been an F1 driver for 14 years, and I’ve driven more than 240 Grands Prix and, although I’ve never raced an F1 car on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit, because the last time the German Grand Prix was held there was before I was born, I know exactly how challenging, and daunting, a racetrack it is.Over the past dozen-or-so years I’ve owned a lot of ultra-high-performance road cars. I’ve driven the McLaren P1™ on a number of occasions – including up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it was sensational – and I think it’s a truly superb machine: unbelievably refined yet unbelievably quick.”