Crime & Safety
Correction! Race Car Driver Charged with Reckless Driving in Different McLaren
That was no $1.35 million McLaren P1 that Paul Orwicz was in when cops say they stopped him. It was a (cheaper) 12C — only about $231K.
Paul Orwicz of Oenoke Ridge Road, charged last week by New Canaan police with reckless driving, wasn’t behind the wheel of a $1.35 million McLaren P1, as New Canaan Patch previously reported.
Orwicz called Patch on Friday to say that it was only a McLaren 12C — a fine car and still plenty expensive (at a 2012 price of $231,400, according to Motortrend, but not a P1. (Motortrend also noted that it gets pretty good gas mileage.)
That means that when Orwicz allegedly accelerated away from the police stop, he was doing so in a car capable of going from 0 to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds and from 0 to 100 mph in 5.8 seconds, according to the DragTimes.com website, although we still don’t know how fast he accelerated that night.
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Photo: The McLaren 12C. Credit: User M 94 on Wikimedia Commons.
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