Tavarish takes his McLaren P1 engine project into the details
A technical visit with Cannonball Garage accompanies an unusually large day for his 2varish channel.
Why this story? The whole channel is running at 1,138,754 views a day, 103 times a normal day (11,100).
Building The 1,400 HP McLaren P1 Engine That Everyone Said Couldn't Be Done
Tavarish gives viewers fair warning: this McLaren P1 update is for people who want the engineering details, not just the finished supercar. On 2varish, his channel for extra automotive footage, the latest upload digs into the custom V8 being built for his P1.
"Building The 1,400 HP McLaren P1 Engine That Everyone Said Couldn't Be Done" has passed a million views since its October 8 release. Alongside that substantial audience, the channel added more than a million views in a day, roughly a hundred times its usual daily pace. That is a channel-wide jump, rather than a view total attributable entirely to this upload.
The description centers on Cannonball Garage's engine work, with Tavarish exploring how the team aims to combine greater power with better reliability. It also promises a look at Daily Driven Exotics' disassembled 720 GTR and what further development might be possible with McLaren engines.
There is a useful connection to his earlier P1 coverage: a July upload took him to Koenigsegg's factory in Sweden, where he questioned founder Christian von Koenigsegg about car building to inform his own project. The new video brings that engineering curiosity back to the engine itself, a different subject from the burnt junkyard pickup featured here previously.
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- Channel
- 2varish
- Subscribers
- 567,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,209,056
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,138,754 (on a normal day: 11,100)
The numbers
The channel's daily views rose far beyond its usual pace. The latest P1 upload also has a substantial total of its own.
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In which country is Koenigsegg based?
Koenigsegg is a Swedish supercar manufacturer, and Tavarish's factory visit took him to Sweden.


