Sculpted for pure performance, the Pagani Huayra R stands as the most extreme Pagani Car ever conceived, designed exclusively for the visceral thrill of the track. This isn’t merely an evolution; it’s a revolution, housing the all-new Pagani V12-R engine, the soul of this breathtaking machine. This naturally aspirated V12 roars to life with 850 horsepower and 750 Nm of torque, delivering maximum track prowess all the way to a redline of 9000 rpm. The Huayra R is a rolling laboratory, a testament to future Pagani technologies, and a celebration of performance, cutting-edge technology, and automotive artistry, all distilled into a featherlight 1,050 kg package. Safety is paramount, built to the highest standards, while “Arte in Pista” introduces a new, bespoke chapter in customer experiences. Limited to just 30 examples, the Huayra R commands a base price of EUR 2.6 million + TAX.
San Cesario Sul Panaro, 18 March 2021 – Like a force of nature unleashed, the Huayra R explodes onto the scene, a Pagani car embodying pure, unadulterated character. It’s passionate, powerful, and utterly captivating, a machine that knows no limits. This track-focused hypercar represents the pinnacle of Pagani Automobili’s engineering and aerodynamic expertise, seamlessly blended with unparalleled aesthetic sensitivity. It’s an exercise in automotive artistry, showcasing the full spectrum of Pagani’s technological advancements.
A Legacy of Passion: The Soul of a Pagani Car
What defines freedom in the realm of automotive passion? For Pagani, it’s the audacity to dream beyond boundaries, to surpass limitations, and to express raw emotion without constraint. This very concept, elusive yet deeply resonant, has always fueled the human spirit and driven innovation. The Huayra R, a true Pagani car, embodies this profound need for creative freedom, drawing inspiration from the timeless allure of Le Mans and World Sports-Prototype Championship cars of the 1960s and 1970s. These legendary machines, symbols of automotive liberation, dominated an era of motorsport defined by fierce competition, intense emotions, and the relentless pursuit of victory. Endurance races transformed drivers into heroes, and these sensational cars became eternal legends. This spirit of freedom and purity permeates the bold lines of the Huayra R, a quintessential celebration of performance, technology, and art, meticulously crafted for the track.
Horacio Pagani himself explains, “Today’s racing cars are focused exclusively on aerodynamics and are largely the product of the wind tunnel. In the 60s and 70s, however, the cars were very fast, certainly dangerous, but beautiful. Prototype sports cars like the Ferrari P4 or the Ford GT40, or the Le Mans cars, had extremely attractive lines, which are still a huge source of inspiration for our cars today. The Porsche 917 is my favourite, with its romantic yet bold shape, which gives the impression of a very fast car. It is beautiful, elegant and timeless. From this desire for freedom, and from the experience of the Zonda R and the cars of the past, came the idea of the Huayra R, like a breath of fresh air.”
The Huayra R, a definitive Pagani car, is a celebration of pure passion – an extreme, untamed beast, developed free from the constraints of road regulations, focusing solely on uncompromising track performance. Above all else, it was engineered to ignite the senses and deliver an unparalleled emotional experience.
From Heritage to Innovation: The Pagani Philosophy
“Creativity is the result of curiosity and the quest for something that does not exist.” This philosophy is deeply ingrained in Pagani Automobili’s DNA. The relentless pursuit of new challenges, the setting of ambitious goals, and the constant push to redefine boundaries have been hallmarks of the brand since its inception. This ethos was vividly demonstrated in the late 2000s when a groundbreaking project landed at the Atelier’s doorstep, sparking an unprecedented journey of research and development: the creation of Pagani’s first dedicated track car. Horacio Pagani envisioned a machine incorporating the pinnacle of racing technology, seamlessly fused with the beauty and meticulous detail synonymous with every Pagani car. The Zonda R, born from cutting-edge materials borrowed from the aerospace and F1 industries, debuted at the Geneva Motor Show in 2009. Beneath its refined, exposed carbon fiber skin, it embodied the zenith of Pagani Automobili’s technological prowess, coupled with an unprecedented level of aesthetic consideration for a track-focused vehicle. Offering a driving experience and performance unattainable on public roads, the Zonda R unleashed its full potential, achieving remarkable milestones on the world’s most prestigious circuits and gracing the covers of leading automotive publications.
Drawing profound inspiration from its racing predecessors, the Huayra R, the latest Pagani car masterpiece, reintroduces that same audacious spirit over a decade later. It once again merges maximum technical refinement with meticulous attention to detail, resulting in a car of exceptional character that foreshadows the technology of future Pagani creations. And true to the Atelier’s tradition, it is meticulously crafted to measure.
“In 2008 we were working on the Huayra, a very challenging and demanding project from an engineering and stylistic point of view. After so many years, I felt an overwhelming desire for freedom and that’s how the Zonda R came about, a track car free from constraints and regulations. Beautiful, high-performing and safe. The Huayra R, just like the Zonda R, is the freest, most extreme and performance-oriented Pagani car of all time.” – Horacio Pagani
The Heart of the Beast: The Pagani V12-R Engine
The Huayra R, a true Pagani car, is far more than just an intellectual exercise. It’s a concentrated package of innovative solutions, meticulously engineered for peak performance, a product of 100% dedicated expertise. Unlike adaptations of road models, the Huayra R was conceived from a clean sheet, allowing for significantly elevated development targets for each component, pushing the San Cesario Sul Panaro team to overcome numerous technical hurdles. Foremost among these was the development of the most powerful naturally aspirated internal combustion engine in the Atelier’s history.
The Pagani V12-R – the beating heart of the Huayra R – is a 12-cylinder, 6-liter, naturally aspirated racing engine. Designed from the ground up in collaboration with HWA AG, it was specifically tailored to meet Pagani’s demanding requirements: equipping their new creation with the lightest, most potent, and efficient track-ready V12 ever built. This ambitious goal arose from the fervent desire of Pagani’s discerning clientele, who yearned for an incredibly powerful, high-revving, naturally aspirated V12 for their ultimate track machine.
“The new engine had to have the charm, romance, sound and simplicity of the F1 engines of the 1980s, while incorporating state-of-the-art technology available today.” – Horacio Pagani
This state-of-the-art powertrain, drawing upon racing technology, unleashes a staggering 850 hp (625 kW) at 8250 rpm and a colossal 750 Nm of torque, readily available from 5500 to 8300 rpm. The 200 bar direct injection system optimizes performance, ensuring peak thermodynamic efficiency and fuel economy. The Huayra R, a quintessential Pagani car, is engineered to deliver the ultimate track experience, allowing drivers to push to the 9000 rpm redline. For the engineers at HWA AG and Pagani, achieving this meant not just focusing on raw power, but equally prioritizing lightness. This challenge was embraced with unwavering dedication, and after over two years of intensive design and development, the formidable Pagani V12-R tipped the scales at a mere 198 kg (436 lbs), placing it at the pinnacle of its class.
Solidly mounted to the central monocoque, where it acts as a structural element supporting the transmission system and chrome-molybdenum alloy steel subframes, the new engine is exceptionally efficient and user-friendly, with service intervals extended to every 10,000 km.
Precision Shifting: The Transmission System
The Huayra R, a true Pagani car, features cutting-edge components, including a brand-new six-speed sequential gearbox. This transmission, developed in tandem with the Huayra R’s engine in collaboration with HWA AG, completes a bespoke powertrain package. Driven by a 3 sintered metal disc racing clutch, the new non-synchronized dog ring gearbox achieves an exceptional 95% friction efficiency, providing maximum shift precision, lightning-fast shift times, and a remarkably low total weight of just 80 kg (176 lb). Securely integrated with both the monocoque and the engine, it contributes significantly to the chassis’ overall rigidity and withstands immense dynamic loads. The complete transmission system is structurally designed to integrate with the entire suspension unit through dedicated attachment points, maximizing the car’s architectural efficiency.
The Roar of Performance: The Exhaust System
Meticulous acoustic and technical planning, coupled with extensive research into materials, geometries, and sound design, culminated in the new exhaust system specifically engineered for the Huayra R, a definitive Pagani car. This system ensures rapid and efficient evacuation of exhaust gases, enabling the Pagani V12-R to unleash its full power while minimizing back pressure. Crafted from Inconel 625/718 alloy, with tube walls a mere third of the thickness of those used in conventional road cars, and coated in ceramic for engine bay protection and enhanced heat dissipation, the entire system is exceptionally lightweight. It’s designed not only to maximize aerodynamic performance but also to deliver an unprecedented acoustic experience to the Huayra R’s occupants. The soundtrack of this racing thoroughbred is pure emotion, thanks to the unique manifold and tailpipe design, featuring equal-length exhaust pipes for all twelve cylinders, allowing the V12-R to roar with the ferocity of a classic F1 engine. The car is also equipped with mufflers that can be fitted as needed, ensuring noise emissions remain within the FIA limit of 110 decibels for noise-restricted tracks.
Chassis and Materials: Lightness and Strength
The Huayra R’s monocoque chassis is the result of dedicated development, meticulously engineered to provide occupants with the immersive driving experience of a true racing car. HWA’s extensive expertise in fine-tuning and producing racing cars and components, combined with Pagani Automobili’s 30 years of experience in advanced composite materials, enabled the application of structural principles and innovative engineering solutions from motorsport to the Huayra R chassis, resulting in a safe structure optimized for track use.
Manufactured using the Atelier’s latest composite technologies, including Carbo-Titanium HP62-G2 and Carbo-Triax HP62, the new monocoque fully integrates the seats, providing maximum protection alongside specific shock-absorption side structures and a roll-bar, while maintaining easy cockpit access. The front frames, constructed from chrome-molybdenum alloy steel, benefit from the development and crash test experience gained during the Huayra project, but are specifically designed for track applications. The rear frame, working in conjunction with the powertrain, forms an integrated structure with the monocoque, enhancing the chassis’ mechanical properties, resulting in a 51% increase in flexural rigidity and a 16% increase in torsional rigidity compared to the road-going Huayra.
The combination of innovative structural principles and materials purpose-developed for the Huayra R design, alongside the resulting enhancement of the structure’s mechanical properties, allows this exceptional Pagani car to achieve a dry weight of just 1,050 kg.
Uncompromising Safety: Protection at the Forefront
For Pagani Automobili, the exhilaration of performance is intrinsically linked to a secure environment offering maximum occupant protection. This is a core principle, never compromised and fundamental to every project undertaken by the Atelier. Careful design and meticulous material research, bodywork engineering, and roll bar structure development were central to the Huayra R’s creation. The aim was not only to deliver the most thrilling track driving experience but, above all, a safe Pagani car that meets the most stringent FIA requirements for GT vehicles.
The heavy-duty safety cage integrated into the central monocoque incorporates specialized composite material absorption structures at the front, sides, and rear. These are specifically designed to dissipate kinetic energy in the event of impacts or rollovers. Inside the cabin, an automatic fire extinguishing system is activated in case of fire. The seats, fully integrated into the carbon monocoque, are equipped with six-point safety belts and covered in Nomex flame retardant material. FIA-approved Ener-Core EC 50 foam padding ensures an optimal driving position, perfectly conforming to the occupants’ body shape, while carbon fiber headrests feature dedicated lateral protection.
Aerodynamic Artistry: Form Follows Function
For Pagani Automobili, crafting complex, technologically advanced, and innovative cars demands not only brilliant engineers but also true artists. For the skilled artisans involved in the Huayra R’s development, this mission entailed intense study and research to seamlessly merge technical and performance aspects with the utmost formal elegance. Every line and surface of the Huayra R, a masterpiece Pagani car, is meticulously sculpted to generate maximum aerodynamic load. The initial development target was 1000 kg of downforce at 320 km/h (2204 lb at 199 mph), with ground clearance optimized for peak aerodynamic performance while ensuring predictable and safe handling in all conditions. This ambitious goal was rapidly achieved, with excellent results from the initial aerodynamic tests. The car demonstrated exceptional stability and balance, maintaining the targeted 46%-54% downforce distribution across the entire speed range, while exhibiting reduced sensitivity to ground clearance variations.
This remarkable outcome, while impressive, wasn’t enough to fully satisfy Horacio Pagani’s team, who sought an even more captivating and sinuous aesthetic treatment for the Huayra R; a design even more deeply rooted in emotion. Further research into the car’s design and stylistic elements led to a surprising and unexpected discovery: as the car’s aesthetics evolved, performance and aerodynamic efficiency improved, highlighting the crucial role of beauty – interpreted as the perfect harmony of form and function – in every facet of design.
Contributing to the car’s dependable performance are two new side air intakes at the front. These maximize cooling efficiency for the front braking system while channeling outgoing airflow towards the car’s sides, minimizing turbulence and enhancing downforce generation. Ensuring adequate cooling for the potent engine required relentless work on the radiator and internal fluid dynamics. New wing profiles were incorporated on the front bonnet to accelerate air extraction and enhance front-end stability. New air vents above the wheel arches and generous side outlets further optimize airflow channeling to the rear aerodynamic appendages.
The new roof scoop, with its integrated center fin, guarantees maximum intake efficiency for the Pagani V12-R. The flat underbody, in conjunction with the rear diffuser and the distinctive rear wing, are instrumental in generating maximum downforce.
Suspension Mastery: Precision and Control
The sophistication of Pagani car suspension systems has always been a source of pride for the Atelier. The culmination of over 30 years of research and development, this technical and technological prowess, constantly refined through experimentation, found a crucial proving ground in the Zonda R. This led to the development of highly innovative technical solutions that would subsequently be implemented in the Huayra Coupé. Similarly, the new kinematics and sophisticated geometry of the suspension unit specifically developed for the Huayra R, the ultimate Pagani car, are the product of one of the most intensive design and experimental phases ever undertaken by the Atelier, and represent the future of Pagani Automobili on the track.
Featuring suspension made of forged aluminum alloy, independent double wishbones with helical springs, and electronically controlled active shock absorbers, the entire configuration of the new system, with rigid mounting points, not only effectively transfers the immense power and torque of the Pagani V12-R to the tarmac but also provides unprecedented driving precision. The Huayra R’s advanced and refined elasto-kinematics allow for greater camber recovery and optimized dynamic bump steer correction, ensuring ideal grip for slick tires in every situation and empowering drivers to attack challenging corners like Eau Rouge without losing a millisecond.
Interconnected with the active aerodynamic system, the active suspension ensures the Huayra R responds optimally in all conditions, achieving perfect balance during corner entry and exit, and maximum stability under braking, for precise and consistently predictable handling.
Braking Prowess: Stopping Power Redefined
Pagani Automobili and Brembo share a long-standing partnership, consistently focused on equipping Pagani hypercars with cutting-edge braking systems to ensure peak performance, seamlessly integrated design, safety, and exceptional lightness. The Huayra R, the ultimate Pagani car, boasts world-class braking power, thanks to brand-new CCM-R self-ventilated carbon-ceramic discs coupled with racing pads. Specifically developed to enable the new car to utilize the best available technology, the new CCM-Rs offer significant advantages in thermal conductivity and maximum braking power, characteristic of competition-grade carbon. These attributes enable greater rigidity and lower operating temperatures under extreme track use, while simultaneously extending the system’s lifespan.
Tires and Wheels: Grip and Agility
Pirelli, with its unparalleled motorsport experience, participation in international GT3 and single-make championships, and a glorious racing heritage rooted in the historic victory at the inaugural F1 race at Silverstone in May 1950, has dedicated 110 years to developing the pinnacle of racing tire technology to elevate the performance of the world’s finest sports cars. The extensive research and development collaboration with Pagani Automobili resulted in a slick version of the P Zero tires, offering maximum precision and a sense of complete control, even for non-professional drivers, ensuring exceptional braking performance and optimal traction.
Utilizing standard racing-derived sizes to ensure cost-effectiveness and availability for customers, this P Zero slick version will benefit from all future Pirelli motorsport tire developments, seamlessly adaptable to the car. Available in Dry and Wet versions, specifically designed to allow the Huayra R, the ultimate Pagani car, to conquer the tarmac in all conditions, Pirelli’s new tire is engineered to provide the grip necessary for pinpoint precision through every corner.
The monolithic rims, custom-designed in partnership with APP Tech and forged from aluminum alloy, were engineered to achieve maximum lightness in 19-inch diameter.
The Interior: One with the Driver
Inside the Huayra R, every detail is meticulously crafted for complete driver engagement and maximum adrenaline, delivering a raw, thrilling, and unfiltered driving experience. All essential controls, including traction control, ABS map selection, radio communication, and other critical functions, are readily accessible on the quick-release, height- and length-adjustable steering wheel, which can be removed for easy cockpit entry. Gearshift paddles are mounted behind the steering wheel. Secondary controls, such as lights, engine maps, suspension maps, and brake balance selector, are located on the center console. A high-resolution, fully customizable motorsport dashboard display provides the driver with essential vehicle status information. Onboard telemetry logs all vehicle data, enabling drivers and pit crews to analyze performance, optimize vehicle settings for any given track, and monitor the car’s condition.
To perfectly align with driver ergonomics, the adjustable pedal set, custom-designed in partnership with AP Racing exclusively for the Huayra R, embodies the principles of lightness and style central to this Pagani car. Crafted with the exceptional finish quality and aesthetic attention synonymous with all Atelier creations, the Huayra R’s cockpit is undeniably impressive. The meticulous design of every screw, lever, and surface transforms its extraordinary concentration of speed-focused technology into an ideal driving environment, tailor-made for each driver.
Arte in Pista: The Pagani Track Experience
An integral part of the Pagani ownership experience is the community and shared moments among members of the exclusive Pagani family, eager to participate in various events organized by the brand across four continents each year, offering total immersion into the Pagani world. These began with the Pagani Raduno, a highly personalized event now deeply ingrained in the Atelier’s history. For over 16 years, various editions of this event have combined drives along iconic routes and through breathtaking landscapes with unique lifestyle experiences, often culminating in a full day dedicated to peak performance on the world’s most prestigious circuits.
With Arte In Pista (“art on the track”), the Pagani Atelier elevates this experience to new heights, offering a calendar brimming with personalized events that allow Huayra R owners to fully embrace the exhilaration of driving their Pagani car hypercar, pushing it to its performance limits, with dedicated assistance from the Pagani Team and support from professional drivers. From individual track days at internationally renowned circuits to group events tailored for customers in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, each occasion blends moments of leisure in stunning locations with the raw excitement of driving one’s own Pagani on the track. “A car sculpted in performance. Not just a track car, but a very intimate club of true adrenaline seekers.” – Horacio Pagani
– TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS –
ENGINE: Pagani V12-R – 6.0 liters – naturally aspirated 12-cylinder V
POWER: 850 HP (625 kW) at 8250 rpm
TORQUE: 750 Nm from 5500 to 8300 rpm
TRANSMISSION: Rear-wheel Drive
GEARBOX: 6-speed sequential, non-synchronized dog ring gearbox
BRAKES: Brembo CCM-R ventilated discs: Front 410×38 mm with monolithic 6-piston calipers; Rear 390×34 mm with monolithic 6-piston calipers
WHEELS: APP forged monolithic aluminum alloy: Front 19 inches; Rear 19 inches
TYRES: Pirelli P Zero slick version – Dry and Wet: Front 275/675 R19; Rear 325/705 R19
SUSPENSION: Forged aluminum alloy independent double wishbone with helical springs and electronically controlled shock absorbers
CHASSIS: Monocoque in Pagani Carbo-Titanium HP62 G2 and Carbo-Triax HP62 with front and rear tubular subframes in CrMo alloy steel
DRY WEIGHT: 1050 Kg (2314 lb)
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