Every McLaren 720S in CSR2, Measured

Eleven McLaren 720S variants appear on the CSR Racing 2 record sheet, all of them Tier 5. They are the tidiest car family we have looked at and the one that teaches the most awkward lesson: a 720S will not reward you much for driving it well.

A tight family by CSR2 standards

The 11 cars span 6.807 to 7.785 seconds — a spread of 0.978. Set against the Nissan GT-R's 5.500-second range across 30 cars, this is a focused lineup where every entry is a credible Tier 5 car.

The family splits cleanly in two. Three cars sit between 6.807 and 7.000 and finish inside the top 300. The other eight bunch between 7.657 and 7.785 — a group of eight covered by 0.128 seconds.

There is a 0.657-second canyon between those two groups with nothing in it. You either own one of the three good ones or you own one of the eight that are near-identical.

The Elite Customs climb is modest here

The 720S appears at Elite Customs level 0 and level 35. Level 0 records 7.785 and ranks 727th; level 35 records 6.807 and ranks 113th.

That is a gain of 0.978 seconds — real, and worth 614 places, but considerably smaller than the 2.214 seconds the Toyota Supra gains across a comparable climb, or the 1.774 the Nissan GT-R finds.

The reason is visible in the EVO column. The 720S starts at 1,965 EVO at level 0, where the Supra starts at 1,352. The McLaren is already a strong car before the climb begins, so there is less headroom to recover.

This is the general shape of Elite Customs, and the three cars together make the point better than any average: the gain is largest on the cars that start furthest back.

The family that rewards driving least

Here is the finding that makes the 720S genuinely distinctive. Across the 11 cars, the median gap between dyno prediction and real recorded time is 0.073 seconds. The sheet median is 0.115.

Several individual entries are lower still. Deckard Shaw's 720S returns 0.031 seconds, the standard 720S 0.049, the Vorsteiner 0.054. These are cars that produce close to their predicted time whoever is holding the phone.

Whether that is good news depends entirely on you. If your shift timing is average, a 720S flatters you — you will get most of its recorded pace without earning it. If you drive well, you are giving up the advantage you would hold in a Supra or a Tier 4 GT-R, where a good run is worth two to six times as much.

Eleven cars, eleven different tunes

No two 720S entries on the sheet share a complete tune. That is unusual even by CSR2 standards, where just over half of all cars run a unique setup.

The nitrous settings are the striking part. The standard 720S runs 663 over 6.7 seconds and Deckard Shaw's runs the same — by far the highest power figures in this family and among the highest anywhere on the sheet. The quickest car, the Elite Customs level 35 entry, runs 188 over 4.0, the most common setting in the game.

Final drives range from 2.00 on the GT3 to 2.87 on the Vorsteiner, and every car runs 0/100 tyres without exception.

Fusion inside the family

Three models appear in both gold and purple, which gives three clean readings of what fusion is worth on this car.

The 720S Spider runs 7.675 purple against 7.749 gold, a gap of 0.074. The Vorsteiner runs 7.657 against 7.688, a gap of 0.031. The standard 720S runs 7.670 against 7.752, a gap of 0.082.

Those average out close to the 0.050 seconds we measured across all 226 matched pairs on the sheet, so the 720S is unremarkable here — fusion is worth about what it is worth everywhere else.

Where the 720S sits against the field

Against the Tier 5 median of 7.353 seconds, only the top three 720S variants are above average. The other eight all sit between 7.657 and 7.785, which places them below the typical Tier 5 car despite being well-known performance machines.

The level-35 car at 6.807 is the strongest single result from any of the three families we have profiled, clearing the top-hundred cut-off of 6.791 by a whisker in the other direction — it misses by 0.016 seconds. Three cars in this family, and the best of them is sixteen thousandths from elite.

Which 720S to build

• Best outright: the 720S at Elite Customs level 35, 6.807 and 113th in the game — the highest global rank of any car in the three families we have profiled.
• Best without Elite Customs: the 720S GT3X at 6.866 and 158th, running 188/4.0 with a 2.33 final drive.
• If yours is at level 0: the climb is worth 0.978 seconds and 614 places. Smaller than a Supra's but still the difference between mid-pack and competitive.
• If you own any of the other eight: they are within 0.128 seconds of each other, so swapping between them is not worth the grind. Build the one you have.
• If you drive well, consider a different family. The 720S returns the least to a good run of any group we have measured.

All 11 are in the record database with their complete tunes, dyno figures and ranks.