McLaren
| Constructor Name | McLaren-Mercedes |
| Long Name | McLaren Mastercard F1 Team |
| Logo |  |
| Founded | 1963 1981 (merged with Project Four Racing) |
| Base | McLaren Technology Centre |
| Principal | Andrea Stella (Team Principal) Zak Brown (Chief Executive Officer) |
| Engineering Head Position | Technical management |
| Engineering Head | Rob Marshall (Chief Designer) Neil Houldey (Technical Director, Engineering) Peter Prodromou (Technical Director, Aerodynamics) Mark Temple (Technical Director, Performance) |
| Founders | Bruce McLaren |
| Parent | McLaren Group |
| 2026 Drivers | 1. Lando Norris 81. Oscar Piastri |
| 2026 Test Drivers | Leonardo Fornaroli Pato O'Ward |
| 2026 Chassis | MCL40 |
| 2026 Engine | Mercedes |
| 2026 Tyres | Pirelli |
| Debut | 1966 Monaco Grand Prix |
| Races | ( starts) |
| Engines | Ford, Serenissima, BRM, Alfa Romeo, TAG, Honda, Peugeot, Mercedes, Renault |
| Cons Champ | 10 (, , , , , , , , , ) |
| Drivers Champ | 13 (, , , , , , , , , , , , ) |
| Last Season | 2025 |
| Last Position | 1st (833 pts) |
McLaren Racing Limited (məˈklærən ), competing as McLaren Mastercard F1 Team, is a British motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England. The team is a subsidiary of the McLaren Group, which owns a majority of the team. McLaren is best known as a Formula One chassis constructor, the second-oldest active team and the second-most successful Formula One team after Ferrari, having won races, 13 Drivers' Championships, and 10 Constructors' Championships. McLaren also has a history in American open wheel racing as both an entrant and a chassis constructor, and has won the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) sports car racing championship. McLaren is one of only three constructors, and the only team, to complete the Triple Crown of Motorsport (wins at the Indianapolis 500, 24 Hours of Le Mans, and Monaco Grand Prix).
Founded in 1963 by Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix, but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, which they dominated from 1967 to 1971. Further American triumph followed, with Indianapolis 500 wins in McLaren cars for Mark Donohue in 1972 and Johnny Rutherford in 1974 and 1976. After Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in 1970, Teddy Mayer took over and led the team to their first Formula One Constructors' Championship in , with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt winning the Drivers' Championship in 1974 and respectively. The year 1974 also marked the start of a long-standing sponsorship by the Marlboro cigarette brand.
In 1981, McLaren merged with Ron Dennis' Project Four Racing; Dennis took over as team principal, and shortly afterwards organised a buyout of the original McLaren shareholders to take full control of the team. This began the team's most successful era; with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, and Ayrton Senna won seven Drivers' Championships between them and the team took six Constructors' Championships. The combination of Prost and Senna was particularly dominant—together they won all but one race in —but later their rivalry soured and Prost left for Ferrari. Fellow English team Williams offered the most consistent challenge during this period, the two winning every constructors' title between and . By the mid-1990s, Honda had withdrawn from Formula One, Senna had moved to Williams, and the team went three seasons without a win. With Mercedes-Benz engines, West sponsorship, and former Williams designer Adrian Newey, further championships came in and with driver Mika Häkkinen, and during the 2000s the team were consistent front-runners, with Lewis Hamilton winning the drivers' title.
Ron Dennis retired as McLaren team principal in 2009, handing over to long-time McLaren employee Martin Whitmarsh. At the end of 2013, after the team's worst season since 2004, Whitmarsh was ousted. McLaren announced in 2013 that they would be using Honda engines from 2015 onwards, replacing Mercedes-Benz. The team raced as McLaren Honda for the first time since 1992 at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix. The second Honda partnership did not yield good results, and in September 2017, McLaren announced they had agreed on an engine supply with Renault from 2018 to 2020. McLaren returned to using Mercedes-Benz engines from the 2021 season, with a deal in place until at least 2030. The team's ninth Constructors' Championship, and first since 1998, was won in 2024, with their tenth coming in , making McLaren the second-most successful Formula One team of all time in terms of Constructors' Championships won. Lando Norris took the team's most recent drivers' title, and first since 2008, in .
After initially returning to the Indianapolis 500 in 2017 as a backer of Andretti Autosport to run Fernando Alonso and then in 2019 as an independent entry, McLaren announced in August 2019 that they would run in conjunction with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports starting in 2020 to run the full IndyCar Series, the combined entry being named Arrow McLaren SP. Initially having no ownership interest in the team, McLaren would purchase 75% of the operation in 2021. McLaren entered the electric off-road racing series Extreme E from 2022 to 2024, and also entered Formula E from the 2022–23 season to the 2024–25 season. Track-modified McLaren road cars have also seen success in sports car and endurance racing, with a modified version of the McLaren F1 road car taking victory at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans; the team is set to rejoin the top class of the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2027, with McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown's team United Autosports partnering to race a hypercar to fit with the WEC's LMDh formula regulations.
At the end of 2025, McLaren secured their second consecutive Constructors' Championship title.
Background
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren. Bruce was a works driver for the British Formula One team Cooper with whom he had won three Grands Prix and come second in the World Championship. Wanting to compete in the Australasian Tasman Series, Bruce approached his employers, but when team owner Charles Cooper insisted on using 1.5-litre Formula One-specification engines instead of the 2.5-litre motors permitted by the Tasman rules, Bruce decided to set up his own team to run him and his prospective Formula One teammate Timmy Mayer with custom-built Cooper cars.
Bruce won the 1964 series, but Mayer was killed in practice for the final race at the Longford Circuit in Tasmania. When Bruce McLaren approached Teddy Mayer to help him with the purchase of the Zerex sports car from Roger Penske, Teddy Mayer and Bruce McLaren began discussing a business partnership resulting in Teddy Mayer buying in to Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Limited (BMMR) and ultimately becoming its largest shareholder.
The team, competing under a British racing licence, was based in Feltham, England from 1963 to 1964, and in Colnbrook, England from 1965 until 1981, and it has been based in Woking, England since 1981. Despite this, Bruce never used the traditional British racing green on his cars. Instead, he used colour schemes that were not based on national principles (e.g. his first Formula One car, the McLaren M2B car, raced at the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix, was painted white with a green stripe, to represent a fictional Yamura team in John Frankenheimer's film Grand Prix).
During this period, Bruce drove for his team in sports car races in the United Kingdom and North America and also entered the 1965 Tasman Series with Phil Hill, but did not win it. He continued to drive in Grands Prix for Cooper, but judging that team's form to be waning, decided to race his own cars in 1966.
Racing history: Formula One
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Bruce McLaren made the team's Grand Prix debut at the 1966 Monaco race (of the current Formula One teams, only Ferrari is older). His race ended after nine laps due to a terminal oil leak. The car was the M2B designed by Robin Herd, but the programme was hampered by a poor choice of engines: a 3.0-litre version of Ford's Indianapolis 500 engine and a Serenissima V8 were used, the latter scoring the team's first point in Britain, but both were underpowered and unreliable. For Bruce decided to use a British Racing Motors (BRM) V12 engine, but due to delays with the engine, was forced initially to use a modified Formula Two car called the M4B powered by a 2.0-litre BRM V8, later building a similar but slightly larger car called the M5A for the V12. Neither car brought great success, the best result being a fourth at Monaco.
1968–1982: Ford-Cosworth DFV engines
For , after driving McLaren's sole entry for the previous two years, Bruce was joined by 1967 champion and fellow New Zealander Denny Hulme, who was already racing for McLaren in Can-Am. That year's new M7A car, Herd's final design for the team, was powered by Cosworth's new and soon to be ubiquitous DFV engine (the DFV would go on to be used by McLaren until 1983) and with it a major upturn in form proceeded. Bruce won the Race of Champions at the Brands Hatch circuit and Hulme won the International Trophy at Silverstone, both non-championship races, before Bruce took the team's first championship win at the Belgian Grand Prix. Hulme also won the Italian and Canadian Grands Prix later in the year, helping the team to second in the Constructors' Championship. Using an updated 'C' version on the M7, a further three podium finishes followed for Bruce in , but the team's fifth win had to wait until the last race of the 1969 championship when Hulme won the Mexican Grand Prix. That year, McLaren experimented with four-wheel drive in the M9A, but the car had only a single outing driven by Derek Bell at the British Grand Prix; Bruce described driving it as like "trying to write your signature with somebody jogging your elbow".
The year started with a second-place each for Hulme and Bruce in the first two Grands Prix, but in June, Bruce was killed in a crash at Goodwood while testing the new M8D Can-Am car. After his death, Teddy Mayer took over effective control of the team; Hulme continued with Dan Gurney and Peter Gethin partnering him. Gurney won the first two Can-Am events at Mosport and St. Jovite and placed ninth in the third, but left the team mid-season, and Gethin took over from there. While began promisingly when Hulme led the opening round in South Africa before retiring with broken suspension, ultimately Hulme, Gethin (who left for BRM mid-season,) and Jackie Oliver again failed to score a win. The 1972 season saw improvements though: Hulme won the team's first Grand Prix for years in South Africa and he and Peter Revson scored ten other podiums, the team finishing third in the Constructors' Championship. McLaren gave Jody Scheckter his Formula One debut at the final race at Watkins Glen. All McLaren drivers used the Ford-Cosworth engines, except for Andrea de Adamich and Nanni Galli who used engines from Alfa Romeo in 1970.
1973–1981: Hunt–Lauda era and transition
The McLaren M23, designed by Gordon Coppuck, was the team's new car for the season. Sharing parts of the design of both McLaren's Formula One M19 and Indianapolis M16 cars (itself inspired by Lotus's 72), it was a mainstay for four years. Hulme won with it in Sweden and Revson took the only Grand Prix wins of his career in Britain and Canada. In , Emerson Fittipaldi, world champion with Lotus two years earlier, joined McLaren. Hulme, in his final Formula One campaign, won the Argentinian season-opener; Fittipaldi, with wins in Brazil, Belgium and Canada, took the Drivers' Championship. It was a close fight for Fittipaldi, who secured the title with a fourth at the season-ending United States Grand Prix, putting him three points ahead of Ferrari's Clay Regazzoni. With Hulme and multiple motorcycle world champion Mike Hailwood, he also sealed McLaren's first Constructors' Championship. The year was less successful for the team: Fittipaldi was second in the championship behind Niki Lauda. Hulme's replacement Jochen Mass took his sole GP win in Spain.
At the end of 1975, Fittipaldi left to join his brother's Fittipaldi/Copersucar team. With the top drivers already signed to other teams, Mayer turned to James Hunt, a driver on whom biographer Gerald Donaldson reflected as having "a dubious reputation". In , Lauda was again strong in his Ferrari; at midseason, he led the championship with 56 points while Hunt had only 26 despite wins in Spain (a race from which he was initially disqualified) and France. At the German Grand Prix, though, Lauda crashed heavily, was nearly killed, and missed the next two races. Hunt capitalised by winning four more Grands Prix giving him a three-point deficit going into the finale in Japan. Here it rained torrentially, Lauda retired because of safety concerns, and Hunt sealed the Drivers' Championship by finishing third. McLaren, though, lost the Constructors' Championship to Ferrari.
In , the M23 was gradually replaced with the M26, the M23's final works outing being Gilles Villeneuve's Formula One debut with the team in a one-off appearance at the British Grand Prix. Hunt won on three occasions that year, but the Lauda and Ferrari combination proved too strong, Hunt and McLaren managing just fifth and third in the respective championships. From there, results continued to worsen. Lotus and Mario Andretti took the titles with their 78 and 79 ground-effect cars and neither Hunt nor Mass's replacement Patrick Tambay were able to seriously challenge with the nonground-effect M26. Hunt was dropped at the end of 1978 in favour of Lotus's Ronnie Peterson, but when Peterson was killed by a crash at the Italian Grand Prix, John Watson was signed, instead. No improvement occurred in ; Coppuck's M28 design was described by Mayer as "ghastly, a disaster" and "quite diabolical" and the M29 did little to change the situation. Tambay scored no points and Watson only 15 to place the team eighth at the end of the year.
The 1980s started much as the 1970s had ended: Alain Prost took over from Tambay but Watson and he rarely scored points. Under increasing pressure since the previous year from principal sponsor Philip Morris and their executive John Hogan, Mayer was coerced into merging McLaren with Ron Dennis's Project Four Formula Two team, also sponsored by Philip Morris. Dennis had designer John Barnard who, inspired by the carbon-fibre rear wings of the BMW M1 race cars that Project Four was preparing, had ideas for an innovative Formula One chassis constructed from carbon-fibre instead of conventional aluminium alloy. On their own, they lacked the money to build it, but with investment that came with the merger it became the McLaren MP4 (later called MP4/1) of , driven by Watson and Andrea de Cesaris. In the MP4, Watson won the British Grand Prix and had three other podium finishes. Soon after the merger, McLaren moved from Colnbrook to a new base in Woking and Dennis and Mayer initially shared the managing directorship of the company; by 1982, Mayer had departed and Tyler Alexander's and his shareholdings had been bought by the new owners.
1983–1992: TAG-Porsche and Honda engines
In the early 1980s, teams like Renault, Ferrari and Brabham were using 1.5-litre turbocharged engines in favour of the 3.0-litre naturally aspirated engines that had been standard since 1966. Having seen in 1982 the need for a turbo engine of their own, Dennis had convinced Williams backer Techniques d'Avant Garde (TAG) to fund Porsche-built, TAG-branded turbo engines made to Barnard's specifications; TAG's founder Mansour Ojjeh would later become a McLaren shareholder. In the meantime, they continued with Cosworth engines as old rival Lauda came out of retirement in 1982 to drive alongside Watson in that year's 1B development of the MP4. They each won two races, Watson notably from 17th place on the grid in Detroit, and at one stage of the season McLaren were second in the constructors' championship. As part of a dispute with FISA, they boycotted the San Marino Grand Prix. Although was not so fruitful, Watson did win again in the United States, this time from 22nd on the grid at Long Beach.
Having been fired by Renault, Prost returned to McLaren once again for . Now using the TAG engines, the team dominated, scoring 12 wins and times as many constructors' points as nearest rival Ferrari. In the Drivers' Championship, Lauda prevailed over Prost by half a point, the narrowest margin ever. The McLaren-TAGs were again strong in ; a third Constructors' Championship came their way while this time Prost won the Drivers' Championship. In , the Williams team were resurgent with their Honda engine and drivers Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet, while at McLaren, Lauda's replacement, 1982 champion Keke Rosberg could not gel with the car. Williams took the Constructors' Championship, but for Prost, wins in San Marino, Monaco, and Austria combined with the fact that the Williams drivers were taking points from each other meant that he retained a chance going into the last race, the Australian Grand Prix. There, a puncture for Mansell and a precautionary pit stop for Piquet gave Prost the race win and his second title, making him the first driver to win back-to-back championships since Jack Brabham in and 1960. In Barnard departed for Ferrari to be replaced by Gordon Murray as Technical Director, with Steve Nichols (who himself joined Ferrari in 1989) remaining as Chief Designer. In the hands of Prost and Stefan Johansson, though, Nichols's MP4/3 and the TAG engine could not match the Williams-Honda.
1988–1991: Domination with Honda
For , Honda switched their factory supply to McLaren and, encouraged by Prost, Dennis signed Ayrton Senna to drive. Despite regulations reducing the boost pressure and fuel capacity (and therefore, power) of the turbo cars, Honda persisted with a turbocharged engine. In the MP4/4, Senna and Prost engaged in a season-long battle, winning 15 of the 16 races (at the other race at Monza, Senna had been leading comfortably, but collided with back-marker Jean-Louis Schlesser). At the Portuguese Grand Prix, their relationship soured when Senna squeezed Prost against the pit wall; Prost won, but afterwards said, "It was dangerous. If he wants the world championship that badly he can have it." Prost scored more points that year, but because only the best 11 results counted, Senna took the title at the penultimate race in Japan.
The next year, with turbos banned, Honda supplied a new 3.5-L naturally aspirated V10 engine and McLaren again won both titles with the MP4/5. Their drivers' relationship continued to deteriorate, though, especially when, at the San Marino Grand Prix, Prost felt that Senna had reneged on an agreement not to pass each other at the first corner. Believing that Honda and Dennis were favouring Senna, Prost announced mid-season that he would leave to drive at Ferrari the following year. For the second year in succession, the Drivers' Championship was decided at the Japanese Grand Prix, this time in Prost's favour after Senna and he collided (Senna initially recovered and won the race, but was later disqualified).
With former McLaren men Nichols and Prost (Barnard had moved to the Benetton team), Ferrari pushed the British team more closely in . McLaren, in turn, brought in Ferrari's Gerhard Berger, but like the two seasons before, the Drivers' Championship was led by Prost and Senna and settled at the penultimate race in Japan. Here, Senna collided with Prost at the first corner, forcing both to retire, but this time Senna escaped punishment and took the title; McLaren also won the Constructors' Championship. The year was another for McLaren and Senna, with the ascendant Renault-powered Williams team their closest challengers. By , Williams, with their advanced FW14B car, had overtaken McLaren, breaking their four-year run as champions, despite the latter winning five races that year.
1993–1994: Ford, Lamborghini and Peugeot engines
As Honda withdrew from the sport at end of 1992 following the Japanese asset price bubble in Japan, McLaren sought a new engine supplier. A deal to secure Renault engines fell through due to being vetoed by Renault's fuel and lubricant supplier Elf Aquitaine, subsequently McLaren switched to customer Ford engines for the season. Senna—who initially agreed only to a race-by-race contract before later signing for the whole year—won five races, including a record-breaking sixth victory at Monaco and a win at the European Grand Prix, where he went from fifth to first on the opening lap. His teammate, 1991 CART champion Michael Andretti, fared much worse; he scored only seven points, and was replaced by test driver Mika Häkkinen for the final three rounds of the season. Williams ultimately won both titles and Senna—who had flirted with moving there for 1993—signed with them for the season. During the 1993 season McLaren took part in a seven part BBC Television documentary called A Season With McLaren.
McLaren tested a Lamborghini V12 engine ahead of the season, as part of a potential deal with the then-Lamborghini owner Chrysler, before eventually deciding to use full-works Peugeot engines. With Peugeot power, the MP4/9 was driven by Häkkinen and Martin Brundle, despite achieving eight podiums over the season no wins were achieved. Peugeot was dropped after a single year due to multiple engine failures/unreliability which cost McLaren potential race victories and they switched to a Mercedes-Benz-branded, Ilmor-designed engine.
1995-2014: First-spell of Mercedes partnership
1995–2009: Factory Mercedes partnership
For 1995 season onwards, McLaren ended their engine deal with Peugeot Sport and started an engine full-works partnership with Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines for the first time, after the German manufacturer spent one year in partnership with the then-youngest Sauber team. The partnership included bespoke free engines from Mercedes-Benz that built, assembled and tuned by Ilmor Engineering in Brixworth, England, Mercedes-Benz official team vehicles, financial support, also earned full-factory support from Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz and also Mercedes-Benz and Ilmor staffs would work with the team at their Woking base.
McLaren's Formula One car for the season, the MP4/10, was not a front-runner and Brundle's replacement, former champion Nigel Mansell, was unable to fit into the car at first and departed after just two races, with Mark Blundell taking his place.
While Williams dominated in , McLaren, now with David Coulthard alongside Häkkinen, went a third successive season without a win. In , however, Coulthard broke this run by winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix; Häkkinen and he would each win another race before the end of the season, and highly rated designer Adrian Newey joined the team from Williams in August that year. Despite the car's improved pace, unreliability proved costly throughout the season, with retirements at the British and Luxembourg Grands Prix occurring whilst Häkkinen was in the lead. It was also at the start of this season that saw long time sponsor, Marlboro, shift its support to long time rival Ferrari. For the first time since the 1974 season, McLaren would have a new identity, shifting to fellow tobacco sponsor West. This saw the traditional red and white replaced with silver, grey, white and red. McLaren would retain this colour scheme (or very similar) for twenty years until 2017.
With Newey able to take advantage of new technical regulations for , and with Williams losing their works Renault engines following Renault's temporary withdrawal from the sport, McLaren were once again able to challenge for the championship. Häkkinen and Coulthard won five of the first six races despite the banning of the team's "brake steer" system, which allowed the rear brakes to be operated individually to reduce understeer, after a protest by Ferrari at the second race in Brazil. Schumacher and Ferrari provided the greatest competition, the former levelled on points with Häkkinen with two races to go, but wins for Häkkinen at the Luxembourg and Japanese Grands Prix gave both him the Drivers' Championship and McLaren the Constructors' Championship. Häkkinen won his second Drivers' Championship the following season, but due to a combination of driver errors and mechanical failures, the team lost the constructors' title to Ferrari.
In McLaren won seven races in a close fight with Ferrari, but ultimately Ferrari and Schumacher prevailed in both competitions. This marked the start of a decline in form as Ferrari cemented their dominance in Formula One. In , Häkkinen was outscored by Coulthard for the first time since 1997 and retired (ending Formula One's longest ever driver partnership), his place taken by Kimi Räikkönen, then in , Coulthard took their solitary win at Monaco while Ferrari repeated McLaren's 1988 feat of 15 wins in a season.
The year started promisingly to coincide with Mercedes-Benz's 10th consecutive season in Formula One as an engine supplier only, with one win each for Coulthard and Räikkönen at the first two Grands Prix. However, they were hampered when the MP4-18 car designed for that year suffered crash test and reliability problems, forcing them to continue using a 'D' development of the year-old MP4-17 for longer than they had initially planned. Despite this, Räikkönen scored points consistently and challenged for the championship up to the final race, eventually losing by two points. The team began with the MP4-19, which technical director Adrian Newey described as "a debugged version of MP4-18". It was not a success, though, and was replaced mid-season by the MP4-19B. With this, Räikkönen scored the team's and his only win of the year at the Belgian Grand Prix, as McLaren finished fifth in the Constructors' Championship, their worst ranking since 1983.
Coulthard left for Red Bull Racing in to be replaced by former CART champion Juan Pablo Montoya for what was McLaren's most successful season in several years as he and Räikkönen won ten races. However, both the team not being able to work out why the car could not heat its tyres properly in the early stages of the season and the overall unreliability of the MP4-20 cost several race victories when Räikkönen had been leading or in contention to win and also costing him grid positions in some qualifying sessions, which allowed Renault and their driver Fernando Alonso to capitalise and win both titles.
In , the superior reliability and speed of the Ferraris and Renaults prevented the team from gaining any victories for the first time in a decade. Montoya parted company acrimoniously with the team to race in NASCAR after the United States Grand Prix, where he crashed into Räikkönen at the start; test driver Pedro de la Rosa deputised for the remainder of the season. The team also lost Räikkönen to Ferrari at the end of the year.
Steve Matchett argued that the poor reliability of McLaren in 2006 and recent previous years was due to a lack of team continuity and stability. His cited examples of instability are logistical challenges related to the move to the McLaren Technology Centre, Adrian Newey's aborted move to Jaguar and later move to Red Bull, the subsequent move of Newey's deputy to Red Bull, and personnel changes at Ilmor.
After scoring no victories in 2006, the team returned to competitive status in . That year saw Fernando Alonso race alongside Formula One debutant and long-time McLaren protégé Lewis Hamilton. The pair scored four wins each and led the Drivers' Championship for much of the year, but tensions arose within the team, BBC Sport claimed that Alonso was unable to cope with Hamilton's competitiveness. At the Hungarian Grand Prix, Alonso was judged to have deliberately impeded his teammate during qualifying, so the team were not allowed to score Constructors' points at the event. An internal agreement within the McLaren team stated that drivers would alternatively have an extra lap for qualifying, however, Lewis Hamilton refused to accept for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Subsequently, the McLaren team was investigated by the FIA for having proprietary technical blueprints of Ferrari's car – the so-called "Spygate" controversy. At the first hearing, McLaren management consistently denied all knowledge, blaming a single "rogue engineer". However, in the final hearing, McLaren was found guilty and the team was excluded from the Constructors' Championship and fined $100 million. The drivers were allowed to continue without penalty, and while Hamilton led the Drivers' Championship heading into the final race in Brazil, Räikkönen in the Ferrari won the race and the Drivers' Championship, a single point ahead of both McLaren drivers. In November, Alonso and McLaren agreed to terminate their contract by mutual consent, Heikki Kovalainen filling the vacant seat alongside Hamilton.
In , a close fight ensued between Hamilton and the Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Räikkönen; Hamilton won five times and despite also crossing the finish line first at the Belgian Grand Prix, he was deemed to have gained an illegal advantage by cutting a chicane during an overtake and was controversially demoted to third. Going into the final race in Brazil, Hamilton had a seven-point lead over Massa. Massa won there, but Hamilton dramatically clinched his first Drivers' Championship by moving into the necessary fifth position at the final corner of the final lap of the race. Despite winning his first Grand Prix in Hungary, Kovalainen finished the season only seventh in the overall standings, allowing Ferrari to take the constructors' title.
Before the start of the season, Dennis retired as team principal, handing responsibility to Martin Whitmarsh, but the year started badly: the MP4-24 car was off the pace and the team was given a three-race suspended ban for misleading stewards at the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix. Despite these early problems, a late revival had Hamilton win at the Hungarian and Singapore Grands Prix.
2010–2014: Customer Mercedes engines
For the 2010 season, McLaren lost its status as the Mercedes works team; Mercedes decided to buy the Brackley-based Brawn team that had won the 2009 titles with its customer engines, Whitmarsh having chosen to abandon their exclusive rights to the Mercedes engines to help Brawn run. Mercedes still continued providing engines to McLaren, albeit under a supplier-customer relationship rather than the works partnership as before, while it sold its 40% shares of McLaren over two years but instead Mercedes remained supplying free engines for McLaren team until 2012. McLaren signed 2009 champion, Jenson Button, to replace Kovalainen alongside Hamilton in . Button won twice (in Australia and China) and Hamilton three times (in Turkey, Canada, and Belgium), but they and McLaren failed to win their respective championships, that year's MP4-25 largely outpaced by Red Bull's RB6.
Hamilton and Button remained with the team into , with Hamilton winning three races – China, Germany, and Abu Dhabi and Button also winning three races – Canada, Hungary, and Japan. Button finished the Drivers' Championship in second place with 270 points behind 2011 Drivers' Champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing, ahead of Hamilton's 227 points. McLaren was second in the Constructors' Championship to Red Bull Racing. Throughout the season, Hamilton was involved in several incidents with other drivers including – most notably – multiple collisions with 2008 title rival Massa.
In , McLaren won the first race of the year in Australia with a dominant victory by Button and a 3rd place from pole for Hamilton, while Hamilton went on to win in Canada, but by the mid-way mark of the season at the team's home race at Silverstone, the McLaren cars managed only eighth place (Hamilton) and 10th place (Button), while the drivers' and Constructors' Championships were being dominated by Red Bull Racing and Ferrari, whose cars occupied the first four places of the , this was partially due to pit stop problems and Button's temporary dip in form after not adapting as well as Hamilton to the new Pirelli tyres. The car also suffered reliability problems which cost the team and its drivers numerous potential points, most notably in Singapore and Abu Dhabi, where Hamilton had been leading from the front in both races and in Italy where the team lost a 1-2 finish when Button's car failed with fuel problems on lap 33.
Sergio Pérez replaced Hamilton for , after Hamilton decided to leave for Mercedes. However, from 2013 to 2014 seasons McLaren's Mercedes links were weaker due to Mercedes focused on its own works team. For eighteen seasons McLaren utilized bespoke free works engines, however from 2013, McLaren had to pay for Mercedes engines. The team's car for the season, the MP4-28, was launched on 31 January 2013. The car struggled to compete with the other top teams and the season had McLaren fail to produce a podium finish for the first time since .
Kevin Magnussen replaced Pérez for , and Ron Dennis, who had remained at arm's length since stepping down from the team principal role, returned as CEO of the operation. McLaren was the first team to officially launch their 2014 car, the MP4-29, which was revealed on 24 January 2014. They had a largely unsuccessful 2014; their best result was in Australia where – after Daniel Ricciardo's disqualification from second place – Magnussen finished second and Button third. Button subsequently finished fourth in Canada, Britain, and Russia. Their highest grid position was in Britain with Button's third place on the grid.
2015–2017: Return to Honda engines
For , McLaren ended their engine deal with Mercedes which included buying back the 40% stake that Mercedes held in the team and reforging their historical partnership with Honda. The Honda deal not only meant they would supply engines, but that Honda staff would work with the team at their Woking base as well as received full-factory support from Honda including official team vehicles and free engines. The team announced Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button as their race drivers, with Kevin Magnussen demoted to test driver. During pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in February, Alonso suffered a concussion and, as a result, Kevin Magnussen replaced him for the season-opening in March. At that inaugural race of the season, Jenson Button finished 11th, but was lapped twice and finished last of the finishing cars. Following considerable unreliability and initial suggestions that the Honda engine was underpowered relative to its competitors, steady performance gains eventually resulted in Button managing to score the team's first (four) points of the season at the sixth round in Monaco. By contrast, Alonso scored his first point three races later at the British Grand Prix.
The Hungarian Grand Prix saw the team score their best result of the season with Alonso and Button finishing fifth and ninth, respectively. However, McLaren did not score points in the next four races until Button finished ninth at the Russian Grand Prix. At the following United States Grand Prix, Button scored his best result of the season with sixth place. The team finished ninth in the constructors' standings with 27 points, McLaren's worst performance since 1980. Day 4.jpg)
McLaren retained both Alonso and Button for the season. The second year of the Honda partnership was better than the first, with the team being able to challenge for top 10 positions on a more regular basis. However, the season started with a massive crash at the Australian Grand Prix in which Fernando Alonso sustained rib fractures and a collapsed lung after colliding with Esteban Gutiérrez and somersaulting into the crash barriers. Alonso, as a result of his injuries, was forced to miss the second round of the Championship, the Bahrain Grand Prix, and was replaced by reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne. Vandoorne produced an impressive performance in his first race to score the team's first point of the season with 10th place. The next points for McLaren came at the Russian Grand Prix with Alonso and Button finishing sixth and 10th respectively. The rain-affected Monaco Grand Prix was one of best races of the season for the team. Alonso finished fifth, having kept Nico Rosberg's Mercedes behind him for 46 laps, while Button scored two points with ninth. At the Austrian Grand Prix, Button recorded his best result of the season with a sixth-place after qualifying third in a wet/dry session. After a disappointing display at their home race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the team scored points at the next three rounds with six points in Hungary, four in Germany, and six points again thanks to an impressive seventh-place finish from Alonso at the Belgian Grand Prix. At the United States Grand Prix, McLaren matched their Monaco result with 12 points after an attacking race from Alonso saw him claim fifth position while Button once again finished ninth. After a season of significant progress compared to 2015, Alonso and Button finished the championship in 10th and 15th places respectively with the team ending the season in sixth place in the Constructors' Championship with 76 points. On 3 September 2016, Jenson Button announced he would take a sabbatical from Formula One for the 2017 season. He then confirmed on 25 November that he would retire from F1 altogether with Vandoorne being Alonso's new Teammate for 2017.
In February 2017, McLaren signed Lando Norris to the Young Driver Programme. Alonso did not take part in the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix as he was participating in the Indianapolis 500, being replaced by Jenson Button. Button retired from the race on lap 57 after suffering terminal damage, having hit the Sauber of Pascal Wehrlein. McLaren finished 2017 9th with 30 points in total.
2018–2020: Customer Renault engines
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McLaren announced during the 2017 Singapore Grand Prix weekend that they would split from engine supplier Honda at the end of the 2017 season and had agreed on a three-year customer deal to be supplied with Mecachrome-assembled Renault engines. Team boss Éric Boullier described their performance between 2015 and 2017 as a "proper disaster" for the team's credibility. was the first season in McLaren's history when their cars were powered by Renault engines. McLaren also announced that Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne would remain with the team for the 2018 season. On 6 November 2017, the team announced that Lando Norris would be the team's test and reserve driver.
At the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso scored the team's best finish since the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix with fifth, Alonso said that the team's target would be Red Bull Racing. McLaren had a relatively good start to the season with points finishes in the next four races, but in the next 16 races after Spain, McLaren only scored 22 points, 8 points less than in the same period in 2017. On 14 August 2018, Fernando Alonso announced he would not compete in Formula One in 2019, ending his four-year spell at the team. Carlos Sainz Jr. was signed as his replacement on a multi-year deal. On 3 September 2018, it was announced that Stoffel Vandoorne would be leaving the team at the end of the season, with Lando Norris being promoted from reserve driver to replace him in 2019. McLaren struggled with performance throughout the season, with the McLaren drivers being knocked out 21 times in the first qualifying session, and McLaren having the second-worst average qualifying ranking of any team, only ahead of Williams. The team finished the disappointing season – after being helped by the exclusion of Force India's points from the first 12 races – in 6th place with 62 points, 357 points behind their target, Red Bull Racing, with the same engine.
The 2019 season was much more positive for McLaren, with the team securely establishing themselves as the best constructor behind Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull. At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Sainz recorded the team's first podium since the 2014 Australian Grand Prix, finishing fourth on the road but later promoted to third after Lewis Hamilton received a post-race penalty, meaning that the team missed out on the official podium ceremony. McLaren ended the season in 4th place with 145 points, their best result since 2014 and 54 points ahead of their nearest competitor, Renault.
McLaren retained Norris and Sainz for the season. The season was significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The season was shortened to 18 races, with the season opener to take place in Austria. At the Austrian Grand Prix, Norris achieved his first ever podium, finishing in third. Sainz achieved the team's second podium in 2020 at the Italian Grand Prix, where he finished second. The team finished the 2020 season third in the constructors' championship with 202 points. Sainz finished the drivers' championship in sixth with 105 points and Norris in ninth with 97 points.
2021–present: Return to Mercedes engines and World Championship years
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McLaren again used Mercedes engines in after their deal with Renault ended. McLaren had previously collaborated with Mercedes from 1995 through 2014 (1995 to 2009 as a works partner and later 2010 to 2014 as a customer partner) but this time a customer role system by pay-lease agreement. Daniel Ricciardo moved from Renault to partner Lando Norris for the 2021 Formula One World Championship on a multi-year deal. Ricciardo replaced Carlos Sainz, who moved to Ferrari. In the season's first nine races, the team scored three podiums with Mercedes power, in Italy, Monaco and Austria, all courtesy of Norris.
At the 2021 Italian Grand Prix, Ricciardo scored his first win since the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix, and McLaren's first win since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix. A second-place finish for Norris also meant that McLaren achieved their first one-two finish since the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix and the only one-two finish for the 2021 season. Norris secured the team's first pole position in the hybrid era at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix but was unable to convert it to a win, finishing in seventh place due to the sudden drastic change in weather conditions and team strategy in the last two laps of the race. A subsequent drop in form in the latter part of the season saw McLaren ending up fourth in the constructors' championship behind Ferrari.
For the season, McLaren retained both Norris and Ricciardo. Ricciardo tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the pre-season tests in Bahrain, which meant Norris was required to do all the remaining running for the test although a brake problem limited the testing he was able to conduct. Both drivers struggled at the first race in Bahrain, with neither driver reaching Q3 – the first time since the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix – and finishing 14th and 15th in the race. Norris achieved third at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. After Norris missed the first day at the track during the São Paulo Grand Prix weekend, McLaren suffered their first double DNF finish since Monaco 2017 as Norris had an electrical fault and Ricciardo was involved in a collision with Haas' Kevin Magnussen. Compared to his teammate, Ricciardo struggled and many were critical of his performance, with some suggesting that McLaren would drop him. This forced Ricciardo into releasing a statement on Instagram, confirming he would stay through to 2023. In August 2022, Riccardo's contract for 2023 was terminated by mutual agreement. Oscar Piastri replaced Ricciardo for the 2023 season after a contract dispute with Alpine F1 Team was resolved in McLaren's favour by the FIA Contract Recognition Board. McLaren finished the season in fifth place in the constructors' championship behind Alpine..jpg)
The 2023 season celebrated the 60th anniversary of the team's founding, with the season's car named the MCL60 in commemoration. The season started with a myriad of issues for the team, causing them to release a public statement after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, announcing certain organisational changes. After not scoring points in the first two races, Norris and Piastri finished the chaotic Australian Grand Prix in sixth and eighth place respectively, with Piastri scoring his first points in Formula One and for McLaren. During the midpoint of the season, McLaren's trajectory began to increase with upgrades being introduced at the Austrian and Singapore Grands Prix. The upgrades were an immediate success, and McLaren attained its first podium with Norris since the 2021 Italian Grand Prix. Piastri achieved his first career podium at the Japanese Grand Prix and won the Qatar Grand Prix sprint race, marking McLaren's first sprint race victory in Formula One; the main race saw a record be broken for the fastest pit stop in Formula One, setting a pit stop time of 1.80 seconds, 0.02 quicker than the previous record set by Red Bull Racing in the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix. During the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend, McLaren signed an extension to use Mercedes engines until 2030. After a disastrous start to the season, McLaren took fourth place in the Constructors' Championship, with Norris taking sixth and Piastri taking ninth in the drivers' championship.
The success of the MCL60 provided McLaren, who finished the 2023 season in fourth, allowing for more testing time, numerous opportunities to capitalise in performance for the season. Retaining Norris and Piastri, the team hired David Sanchez from Scuderia Ferrari to lead development alongside Peter Prodromou and Neil Houldey (after a restructuring, Rob Marshall would lead development) for the 2024 car, titled the MCL38. At the start of the season, the MCL38 proved to be the third-fastest car overall behind Ferrari's SF-24. The SF-24 had superior tyre management, but the MCL38 excelled in qualifying. McLaren revealed a substantial upgrade package that would be utilised for the . The upgrade's success would be confirmed after Norris took the lead from Verstappen and went on to win the race, marking his maiden Formula One career victory. McLaren expected the upgrades to improve the car's performance across all conditions; the upgrade was much more successful than expected, to the point the team needed to investigate it. By the , the MCL38 had been established as the fastest car. One of these successes included a 1-2 finish at the , McLaren's first since the 2021 Italian Grand Prix. A mid-season upgrade introduced for the further improved performance, with Norris winning by over 27 seconds ahead of second-placed Verstappen. Piastri's triumph at the moved McLaren up to first in the World Constructors' Championship. This was the first time since that McLaren had led the WCC. In Abu Dhabi, Norris finished in first to win McLaren's first World Constructors' Championship since 1998.
With McLaren winning the WCC the previous season, they were allocated less testing time in , and were deemed the favourites to defend the Constructors' Championship. The MCL39 was the first McLaren car to be fully overseen by Rob Marshall, and it exhibited numerous technical improvements over its predecessor. The MCL39 showed an immediate advantage over the rest of the field; McLaren won fourteen out of twenty-four races in 2025 season, with Norris and Piastri both scoring seven wins each - including seven 1-2 finishes - and scored podiums in all possible races, bar three: the Canadian, Azerbaijan, and Las Vegas Grands Prix. Despite an uptick in pace from Red Bull, McLaren was able to secure their tenth championship at the Singapore Grand Prix, becoming the most-successful Formula One independent constructor of all time to date. Amidst the team's dominance in winning the Constructors' Championship, a battle for the Drivers' Championship between Norris and Piastri began: Norris led the early stages of the championship before Piastri took the lead after capitalising on Norris' mistake in qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. As the season drew to a close, Piastri experienced a downturn in form, which also coincided with two crashes at the Azerbaijan and São Paulo Grands Prix. Norris and Red Bull's Max Verstappen took advantage of this, with the former in particular recovering from a gap as high as 34 points after the Dutch Grand Prix to eventually retake the lead of the Drivers' Championship by one point by winning the Mexico City Grand Prix. Norris and Piastri were both disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix due to a plank wear infringement, marking the first time both McLaren drivers were disqualified in one Grand Prix. At the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Piastri and Norris finished the race in second and third, respectively. The third place finish allowed Norris to win his first Drivers' Championship and McLaren's first Drivers' Championship since 2008. This also marked McLaren's first double championship winning season since 1998.
Racing history: Other series
Can-Am
McLaren's first racing car designed and built "from the rubber up" by Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was the M1. The car with a small block Oldsmobile had immediate success driven by Bruce McLaren. The car was raced in North America and Europe in 1964 in various A sports and United States Road Racing Championship events. In 1965 the team car was the M1A prototype from which the production Elva M1As were based. In late 1965, the M1B (also known as Mk2) was the team car for the North American races at the end of the year. For the Can-Am Series, which started in 1966, McLaren created the M3 which Bruce and Chris Amon drove – customer cars also appeared in several races in the 1966 season. With the M3, they led two races but scored no wins, and the inaugural title was taken by John Surtees in a Lola T70. The following year, Robin Herd purpose-designed the Chevrolet V8-powered M6A, delays with the Formula One programme allowing the team to spend extra resources on developing the Can-Am car which was the first to be painted in McLaren orange. With Denny Hulme now partnering Bruce, they won five of six races and Bruce won the championship, setting the pattern for the next four years. In the 1968 season, they used a new car, the M8, to win four races; non-works McLarens took the other two, but this time Hulme was victorious overall. In the 1969 season, McLaren domination became total as they won all 11 races with the M8B; Hulme won five, and Bruce won six and the Drivers' Championship. From 1969 onwards, McLaren M12 – the customer "variant" of the M8 – was driven by several entrants, including a version modified by Jim Hall of Chaparral fame. McLaren's success in Can-Am brought with it financial rewards, both prize money and money from selling cars to other teams, that helped to support the team and fund the nascent and relatively poor-paying Formula One programme.
When Bruce was killed testing the 1970 season's M8D, he was at first replaced by Dan Gurney, then later by Peter Gethin. They won two and one races, respectively, while Hulme won six on the way to the championship. Private teams competing in the 1970 Can-Am series included older M3Bs as well as the M12 – the customer version of the team's M8B. In the 1971 season, the team held off the challenge of 1969 world champion Jackie Stewart in the Lola T260, winning eight races, with Peter Revson taking the title. Hulme also won three Can-Am races in the 1972 season, but the McLaren M20 was defeated by the Porsche 917/10s of Mark Donohue and George Follmer. Faced by the greater resources of Porsche, McLaren decided to abandon Can-Am at the end of 1972 and focus solely on open-wheel racing. When the original Can-Am series ceased at the end of the 1974 season, McLaren was by far the most successful constructor with 43 wins.
American open-wheel racing
USAC (1970–1979)
McLaren first contested the United States Auto Club's (USAC) Indianapolis 500 race in 1970, encouraged by their tyre supplier Goodyear, which wanted to break competitor Firestone's stranglehold on the event. With the M15 car, Bruce, Chris Amon, and Denny Hulme entered, but after Amon withdrew and Hulme was severely burned on the hands in an incident in practice, Peter Revson and Carl Williams took their places in the race to retire and finish seventh, respectively. The team also contested some of the more prestigious races in the USAC championship that year, as they would do in subsequent years. For 1971 they had a new car, the M16, which driver Mark Donohue said: "...obsoleted every other car on track..." At that year's Indianapolis 500, Revson qualified on pole and finished second, whilst in 1972, Donohue won in privateer Team Penske's M16B. The 1973 event had Johnny Rutherford join the team; he qualified on pole, but finished ninth, Revson crashed out. McLaren won their first Indianapolis 500 in 1974 with Rutherford. The McLaren and Rutherford combination was second in 1975 and won again in 1976. Developments of the M16 had been used throughout this period until the new M24 car was introduced in 1977. The team did not reproduce their recent success at Indianapolis in 1977, 1978, or 1979, and although they continued to win other USAC races, by the end of 1979, they decided to end their involvement in order to concentrate on their Formula One programme. 2017 Indianapolis 500.jpg)
IndyCar Series
2017 and 2019 Indianapolis 500
On 12 April 2017, McLaren revealed they would participate in the 2017 Indianapolis 500 with their current Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso at the wheel of a Honda-powered McLaren-branded Andretti Autosport IndyCar.
In qualifying, Alonso secured a second-row start from fifth. During the race Alonso led 27 laps in his first Indy 500 start. With 21 laps remaining Alonso was running seventh when his Honda engine failed. He was classified 24th. After his retirement he received a standing ovation from the grandstands. Alonso was praised for his strong debut.
On 10 November 2018, McLaren announced that they would participate in the 2019 Indianapolis 500 with Fernando Alonso and using Chevrolet engines. However, after mechanical difficulties and a severe crash in practice, the team failed to qualify for the race.
Full season (2020–)
| Team Name | Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team |
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| Owner Names | McLaren Racing Limited |
| Principals | Zak Brown (Chairman) Brian Barnhart (General Manager) Tony Kanaan (Team Principal) |
| Base | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
| Series | IndyCar Series |
| Drivers | 5. Pato O'Ward 6. Nolan Siegel 7. Christian Lundgaard |
| Sponsors | Arrow Electronics, Lucas Oil, Vuse and NTT Data |
| Manufacturer | Chevrolet |
| Debut | 2020 Genesys 300 |
| Wins | 6 |
| Poles | 9 |
In August 2019, it was announced McLaren would contest the championship full-time in 2020, collaborating with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports to form Arrow McLaren SP.
Zak Brown stated in an interview with Leigh Diffey that McLaren joining the IndyCar Series full time was spurred by two different objectives. The first was to market the McLaren brand and some of the McLaren Formula One team's prominent American based sponsors in a primarily North America centric racing series, as Formula One only had three races in North America in 2021 and only one of those races was in the United States. The second was to branch McLaren's engineering expertise into a racing series that the other Formula One teams were not involved in, as Brown thought McLaren would stand out more amongst its competitors in IndyCar than it would in other racing series. Brown also stated that McLaren chose to partner with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports because their previous efforts fielding their team with assistance from Andretti Autosport and Carlin exclusively for the Indianapolis 500 had not been successful and that the purchase of the IndyCar Series by Penske Entertainment gave McLaren more confidence in the long term viability and stability of the series compared to the previous ownership under Tony George.
In August 2021, it was announced that McLaren Racing will acquire a majority stake in the IndyCar Team. The transaction closed by the end of the year and saw McLaren Racing take a 75% share of the team. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
For the 2022 IndyCar Series, the team's first under McLaren ownership, both O'Ward and Rosenqvist would return to the team as full time entries. The No. 6 car would again return on a part-time basis for the GMR Grand Prix and the 2022 Indianapolis 500 driven by Juan Pablo Montoya. O'Ward and Rosenqvist would finish second and fourth in the Indianapolis 500 respectively, the team's best finish at Indianapolis to date. The team announced they had signed Alexander Rossi to drive a third full time car from 2023 and beyond.
For 2023, the team announced they had signed Alexander Rossi to drive a third full time car. Additionally, team president Taylor Kiel left the team. His duties were parsed and redistributed between Brian Barnhart, who joins the team with Rossi from Andretti Autosport as General Manager, and Gavin Ward. In conjunction with McLaren's 60th-anniversary celebration, the team raced a special livery for the 2023 Indianapolis 500 to celebrate McLaren's Triple Crown achievement. The liveries of the Nos. 7, 6 and 5 were painted as the McLaren M16C/D that won the 1974 Indianapolis 500, the McLaren MP4/2 that won the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix, and the McLaren F1 GTR that won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans respectively to honour the three winning McLaren cars that forms the Triple Crown.
For 2024, Rosenqvist moved to Meyer Shank Racing and was replaced by David Malukas who moved from Dale Coyne Racing. However, after injuring his left wrist early in the year and missing out the start of the season, Malukas was released from the team and has been replaced by Théo Pourchaire.
Electric racing
Neom was McLaren's title partner into their endeavour to electric motorsport as NEOM McLaren Electric Racing.
Extreme E (2022–2024)
In June 2021, McLaren announced it would enter Extreme E in the 2022 season using existing personnel from outside the Formula One program with Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmour (who becomes the first woman factory driver for McLaren) as drivers for the team. Entering as McLaren XE, the team was rebranded for their second race as NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team for sponsorship reasons. The team won its first podium by finishing second in the Energy X-Prix. In the process, Gilmour became the first woman podium winner for McLaren. The team finished in fifth place in the Team's Championship standings.
McLaren retained Foust and Gilmour for the 2023 season. The team won its second podium by finishing second in Round 4 at the Hydro X-Prix. In Round 7 at the Island X-Prix II, Gilmour suffered a fractured rib and a concussion following a crash during the first free practice session and was ruled out for the rest of the weekend. She was replaced by Extreme E's championship reserve driver Tamara Molinaro for Rounds 7 and 8. McLaren withdrew from Round 8 due to the spare car being too heavily damaged in Round 7's redemption race after Molinaro collided with JBXE's Hedda Hosås on the run down to the first jump at the start of the race and rolled the car. This is the first instance of a team withdrawing from a race in Extreme E. For the final two rounds of the season, McLaren announced that Gilmour was still recovering from her injuries and was replaced by Hosås. McLaren finished in eighth place in the Team's Championship standings. At the end of the season, McLaren announced that Foust and Gilmour will leave the team.
For the 2024 season, McLaren announced a new driver pairing of Cristina Gutiérrez and Mattias Ekström, who moved from X44 and Sainz XE Team respectively. The team won its first podium of the season by finishing second in Round 1 at the Desert X-Prix. On 6 September, a week before the scheduled Island X-Prix, Extreme E announced that the rounds in Sardinia and Phoenix were cancelled as the series transition to Extreme H for 2025.
Formula E (2023–2025)
| Name | NEOM McLaren Formula E Team |
| Logo |  |
| Base | McLaren Technology Centre Bicester Motion |
| Races | 43 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Podiums | 8 |
| Poles | 4 |
| Points | 216 |
| First Entry | 2023 Mexico City ePrix |
| Last Entry | 2025 London ePrix |
| First Win | 2024 São Paulo ePrix (March) |
| Last Win | 2024 São Paulo ePrix (March) |
| Website | https://www.mclaren.com/racing/formula-e/ |
| Drivers | René Rast Jake Hughes Sam Bird Taylor Barnard |
| Former Series | Formula E |
In December 2020, Zak Brown announced McLaren's interest in entering Formula E once the company's battery supplier contract has expired. In January the following year, McLaren signed an option to enter the championship for 2022.
In May 2022, McLaren announced the acquisition of the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team and debuted in the 2022–23 season as NEOM McLaren Formula E Team using Nissan's EV powertrain. René Rast, who last raced in the 2020–21 season with Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler, and Jake Hughes were signed as drivers for the team. McLaren made its ePrix debut at the 2023 Mexico City ePrix. Hughes qualified in third and finished the race in fifth place whereas Rast qualified in fifteenth but retired from the race on lap 40 after colliding with Mahindra's Oliver Rowland. McLaren achieved several milestones at the Diriyah ePrix. In the first round, Hughes qualified at second place (missing out on pole position by 0.060s) but finished in eighth whereas Rast qualified and finished in fifth place while scoring McLaren's first fastest lap in Formula E. In the second round, Hughes secured McLaren's maiden pole position in Formula E and Rast qualified in third place. Hughes finished the race in fifth and Rast finished in third place, giving McLaren their maiden podium finish in Formula E. Hughes qualified in second at the Monaco ePrix but was later promoted to pole position after Nissan's Sacha Fenestraz was stripped of his pole position for exceeding his power limit in his final run. Hughes finished the race in fifth place whereas Rast finished in seventeenth after suffering from multiple collisions. McLaren finished the season in eighth in the Teams' Championship.
In August 2023, McLaren announced that Hughes had re-signed with the team whereas Rast will leave the team and was replaced by Sam Bird for the 2023–24 season. Bird won McLaren's maiden electric race victory at the São Paulo ePrix. At the Monaco ePrix, Bird suffered a hand injury during the first free practice session and was replaced by reserve and development driver Taylor Barnard. Barnard qualified in 22nd and finished his debut race in 14th while becoming the youngest driver and the first teenager to start an ePrix at 19 years and 331 days. Barnard continued to deputise for Bird at the Berlin ePrix, where he finished Race 1 in tenth to become youngest point scorer. At the end of the season, Hughes left McLaren to join Maserati MSG Racing and was replaced by Barnard, who was promoted to compete full-time in the 2024–25 season.
At the season opening São Paulo ePrix, Barnard won his maiden podium by finishing in third while also becoming the youngest podium finisher at the age of 20 years and 189 days whereas Bird finished in fourth. Barnard followed up with another podium finish by coming in third at Race 1 of the Jeddah ePrix. At Race 2, he scored his first pole position, becoming the youngest polesitter at the age of 20 years 259 days but failed to convert it to a win, finishing the race in second. In April 2025, McLaren announced that they will exit Formula E at the end of the 2024–25 season to focus on development for the World Endurance Championship. It was later reported that the team will be closed down after McLaren failed to find a buyer and the team entry will be returned to Formula E. McLaren finished their final Formula E race at Race 2 of the London ePrix with a double DNF. McLaren ended the season in sixth in the Teams' Championship whereas Barnard ended his debut season in fourth in the Drivers' Championship, the highest for a McLaren driver.
Endurance racing
In 2021, McLaren reviewed the LMH/LMDh and GTP regulations for a possible entry into the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Hypercar and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP classes respectively in the future. On 19 June 2024, CEO Zak Brown announced that McLaren is planning a Hypercar class entry with the LMDh regulations by the 2027 season. On 10 April 2025, McLaren announced that they will enter WEC in the Hypercar class utilizing the LMDh formula regulations starting from the 2027 season onwards. McLaren will collaborate with Brown's United Autosports and enter the season as McLaren United AS with James Barclay as team principal. McLaren United will also partner with Dallara as the chassis partner.
Customer racing
Besides the cars raced by the works team, a variety of McLaren racing cars have also been used by customer teams. In their formative years, McLaren built Formula Two, hillclimbing, Formula 5000 and sports racing cars that were sold to customers. Lacking the capacity to build the desired numbers, Trojan was subcontracted to construct some of them. In Can-Am, Trojan built customer versions of the M6 and M8 cars and ex-works cars were sold to privateers when new models arrived; half of the field was McLarens at some races. Author Mark Hughes says, "over 220" McLarens were built by Trojan. In USAC competition and Formula One, too, many teams used McLarens during the late 1960s and 1970s. A 1972 M8F was rebuilt as the C8 for use in Group C racing in 1982, but had little success.
In the mid-1990s, McLaren Racing's sister company, McLaren Cars (now McLaren Automotive) built a racing version of their F1 road car, the F1 GTR which won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 1995 and 1996 BPR Global GT Series. In 2011, a GT3 version of the MP4-12C road car was developed in partnership with CRS Racing, making its competitive debut at the VLN and ADAC GT Masters in 2012. The MP4-12C was succeeded by the McLaren 650S and then the McLaren 720S for GT3 racing, while a GT4 version of the McLaren 570S was also developed as well.
In 2022, McLaren Automotive announced a new GT4 model based on the McLaren Artura, along with an unrestricted version named the Artura Trophy, which is to be used in McLaren's planned one-make series.
In October 2023, McLaren Automotive announced its intent to participate in the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans under the new LMGT3 category through CEO Zak Brown's United Autosports as its customer team. McLaren Automotive also announced that it will enter the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship under the GT Daytona Pro (GTD Pro) category through Pfaff Motorsports as its customer team. Both United Autosports and Pfaff Motorsports will be using the McLaren 720S GT3 Evo. In the following month, McLaren Automotive confirmed its participation in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship season in the LMGT3 category in collaboration with United Autosports.
Characteristics
McLaren Racing is majority owned by the McLaren Group, having sold 15% of the team to American investors MSP Sports Capital in 2020, rising to a 33% stake in 2022. The team had previously been wholly owned by the Group since its inception.
Ownership and management
After Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in 1970, Teddy Mayer took over the team. In 1981, McLaren merged with Ron Dennis' Project Four Racing; Dennis took over as team principal and shortly after organised a buyout of the original McLaren shareholders to take full control of the team. Dennis offered Mansour Ojjeh the chance to purchase 50% of the team in 1983, with McLaren becoming a joint venture with Ojjeh's TAG Group. In 2000, after supplying engines to the team through its Mercedes subsidiary for 5 years, DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler AG) exercised an option to buy 40% of the TAG McLaren Group. Dennis and Ojjeh each retained a 30% share, and each sold half of their stake to the Mumtalakat Holding Company (the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain) in 2007. Although Daimler were reportedly considering acquiring the remaining 60% from Dennis and Ojjeh, they instead bought Brawn GP (renaming it Mercedes GP) in November 2009; their McLaren shares were sold back to Mumtalakat, Dennis, and Ojjeh in 2010.
Dennis stepped down as both CEO and team principal of McLaren in 2009, handing both roles over to Martin Whitmarsh. However, following the uncompetitive 2013 season, Dennis retook the role in January 2014; Whitmarsh formally left the team later that year. Dennis sought to take a controlling interest in the company, but his relationship with Ojjeh had deteriorated, perhaps as early as 2013. In 2016, Dennis was forced out of his role as CEO by Ojjeh. He sold his remaining shares in the company the next year.
After Dennis' 2014 return, he had abolished the position of team principal at McLaren, saying it was an 'outdated' position. Éric Boullier was instead named racing director in January 2014, becoming responsible for the F1 team. After Dennis' exit, Zak Brown was chosen for the post of Group executive director, with the positions of Group CEO and Racing CEO both being left vacant. While his position was formally within the wider McLaren Group, it was understood that his role would focus only on the F1 team. The increasing awareness of the mediocrity of the car prompted a reshuffle in 2018: Brown was appointed McLaren Racing CEO in April, and when Boullier resigned in July, his position was divided between Gil de Ferran as sporting director and Andrea Stella as performance director. In May 2019, Andreas Seidl was appointed as the new team principal. In December 2022, Seidl left McLaren to join Sauber as CEO with Stella promoted to team principal.
Since 2004 the team has been based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England. Facilities there include a wind tunnel and a driving simulator which is said to be the most sophisticated in the sport. The team also created the McLaren Driver Development Programme.
Politics
McLaren has had an uneasy relationship with Formula One's governing body, the FIA, and its predecessor FISA, as well as with the commercial rights holders of the sport. McLaren was involved, along with the other teams of the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA), in a dispute with FISA and Alfa Romeo, Renault, and Ferrari over control of the sport in the early 1980s. During this dispute, known as the FISA-FOCA war, a breakaway series was threatened, FISA refused to sanction one race, and FOCA boycotted another. It was eventually resolved by a revenue-sharing deal called the Concorde Agreement.
Subsequent Concorde Agreements were signed in 1987 and 1992, but in 1996, McLaren was again one of the teams which disputed the terms of a new agreement, this time with former FOCA president Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Promotions and Administration organisation; a new 10-year agreement was eventually signed in 1998. Similar arguments restarted in the mid-2000s, with McLaren and their part-owner Mercedes again threatening to start a rival series, before another Concorde Agreement was signed in 2009. In 2007, McLaren were involved in an espionage controversy after their chief designer Mike Coughlan obtained confidential technical information from Ferrari. McLaren was excluded from the Constructors' Championship for one year, and the team was fined US$100 million. Although the terms of the most recent agreements, in 2013 and 2021, have been extensively negotiated on, McLaren have not taken as openly hostile a stance as in the past.
Sponsorship, livery and naming
Title sponsors
In , the Royal Automobile Club and the FIA relaxed the rules regarding commercial sponsorship of Formula One cars. In , Yardley London, a cosmetics company, became McLaren's first title sponsor and the team raced as Yardley Team McLaren. As a result, the livery was changed to a predominantly white one to reflect the sponsor's colours. In , Philip Morris was signed as title sponsor through their Marlboro cigarette brand although one car continued to run-ostensibly by a separate team-with Yardley livery for the year. Marlboro's red-and-white branding lasted until , during which time the team went by the many variants of the Marlboro McLaren name. This partnership was the then longest-running Formula One sponsorship which has since been surpassed by Hugo Boss' sponsorship of the team, which ran from to . The McLaren–Marlboro title sponsorship deal is still the longest-running in Formula One.
In , Philip Morris moved its Marlboro sponsorship to Ferrari and was replaced by Reemtsma's West cigarette brand, with the team racing as West McLaren Mercedes. As a result, McLaren adopted a silver and black livery. By mid-2005, a European Union directive banned tobacco advertising in sport, which forced McLaren to end its association with West. In , the team competed without a title sponsor, entering under the name Team McLaren Mercedes. McLaren altered their livery to introduce red into the design, and changed the silver to chrome. In , McLaren signed a seven-year contract with telecommunications company Vodafone and competed as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. The arrangement was due to last until , although the team announced at the 2013 Australian Grand Prix that their partnership would conclude at the end of the 2013 season. Despite explaining the decision to conclude the sponsorship as being a result of Vodafone's desire to reconsider its commercial opportunities, it was later reported that the decision to run the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix despite an ongoing civil uprising and protests against the race, and Vodafone's inability to remove their logos from the McLaren cars during the race as being a key factor in the decision to terminate the sponsorship. Diageo-owned whisky brand Johnnie Walker, an associate sponsor since 2005, offered to take over as title sponsor at the end of 2013, but their offer of £43 million was turned down by Ron Dennis, who believed it to be "too small."
In 2015, McLaren was still without a title sponsor and was set to lose a further £20 million in sponsorship in 2016. Between and , the team competed as McLaren Honda due to their engine partnership with Honda. After splitting with Honda, the team competed as McLaren Formula 1 Team from onwards. CEO Zak Brown has said that he will not sell the name of the team to a title sponsor to keep the team's name intact and will be looking for major sponsors instead, which will give brands increased branding position on the car and to not rely on a single sponsor. The major sponsors signed since include British American Tobacco through its A Better Tomorrow campaign (later extended to the IndyCar and Formula E teams); former long time sponsor Gulf Oil International (also includes Gulf Oil being the preferred lubricant supplier to McLaren Automotive); Google (also extended to the Extreme E team); OKX (later extended to the McLaren Shadow esports team); and Mastercard. Brown's title sponsor position later shifted and in August 2025, McLaren announced a deal with Mastercard and will compete as McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team from onwards. The sponsorship is reportedly worth $100 million per season and will run to the mid-2030s. Brown added that the livery will "stay recognisable" despite the title sponsorship.
Liveries
In the team's debut race in 1966, it ran white-and-green coloured cars, which came about as a result of a deal with the makers of the film Grand Prix. Between and , the team used an orange design, dubbed the papaya orange, which was also applied to cars competing in the Indianapolis 500 and Can-Am series, and was used as an interim testing livery in later years. Between 1972 to 2013, McLaren's livery colours reflected the colours of the title sponsors. Since 2017, McLaren returned to its traditional papaya orange colours, which was also used on their cars entered in other racing series such as Extreme E and Formula E.
McLaren have a team tradition where they would run the same design the season after a championship win. This was seen with the MCL39 in , which saw minimal changes from the previous year's car that won McLaren's first Constructors' Championship in 26 years. The team also would not change the livery substantially during a period of sustained success.
In , as part of McLaren's Gulf Oil sponsorship, the team rolled out a special one-off "heritage" Gulf livery for the Monaco Grand Prix, which then began a trend of one-off special liveries in Formula One. Vuse also partnered with McLaren to race bespoke liveries designed by emerging artists for the 2021 to 2023 Abu Dhabi Grands Prix. McLaren's other sponsors such as OKX, Google Chrome and Jack Daniel's later partnered with the team to race special liveries.
As part of McLaren's 60th-anniversary celebration during the season, the team revealed a special livery for the Monaco and Spanish Grands Prix to celebrate their Triple Crown achievement. The Triple Crown livery is the amalgamation of the liveries of the three winning McLaren cars that forms the Triple Crown – the papaya of the M16C/D that won the 1974 Indianapolis 500 at the rear, the white of the MP4/2 that won the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix at the middle, and the black of the F1 GTR that won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans at the front of the MCL60. McLaren's IndyCar Series sister team also raced their version of the Triple Crown livery for the Indianapolis 500, with the liveries of the Nos. 7, 6 and 5 painted as the M16C/D, MP4/2, and F1 GTR respectively.
Car naming nomenclature
McLaren's cars were originally named with the letter M followed by a number, sometimes also followed by a letter denoting the model. After the 1981 merger with Project Four, the cars were called "MP4/x", or since 2001 "MP4-x", where x is the generation of the chassis (e.g. MP4/1, MP4-22). "MP4" stood initially for "Marlboro Project 4", so that the full title of the cars (McLaren MP4/x) reflected not only the historical name of the team, but also the names of the team's major sponsor and its new component part. Since the change of title sponsor in 1997, "MP4" was said to stand for "McLaren Project 4". From 2017, following Ron Dennis' departure from the team, the naming scheme of the cars changed to "MCL" followed by a number. The only deviation to the numbering scheme was 2023's MCL60, which was named for the team's 60th anniversary.
Race cars
As a constructor, McLaren has entered numerous race cars designed in-house into racing events, most prominently Formula One. As of 2025, the only exceptions to this are the Arrow McLaren IndyCar team, who run Dallara-built chassis (initially the IR-12, which was supplemented by the IR-18), McLaren's Extreme E team, who ran the Spark Odyssey 21, and their Formula E operation, who ran Formula E Gen3 with Nissan's powertrain.
Currently, McLaren builds only Formula One cars; the most successful McLaren Formula One car is the McLaren MP4/4 of , also one of the most successful Formula One cars of all time. The MP4/4, driven by teammates Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, took victories and pole positions in all but one race.
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Racing results
Formula One results
- Constructors' Championships winning percentage:
- Drivers' Championships winning percentage:
- Winning percentage:
| Formula One results | Year | Name | Car | Engine | Tyres | No. | Drivers | Points | WCC | McLaren Formula 1 Team | MCL39 | Mercedes M16 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | 4. 81. | Lando Norris Oscar Piastri | 833 | 1st | Source: |
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| (italics indicates non-works entries; bold indicates championships won) | ||||||||
| Bruce McLaren Motor Racing | M2B | Ford 406 3.0 V8 Serenissima M166 3.0 V8 | Bruce McLaren | 2 1 | 9th 12th | |||
| Bruce McLaren Motor Racing | M4B M5A | BRM P56 2.0 V8 BRM P142 3.0 V12 | Bruce McLaren | 3 | 10th | |||
| Bruce McLaren Motor Racing | M5A M7A | BRM P142 3.0 V12 Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | Denny Hulme Bruce McLaren | 3 49 | 10th 2nd | |||
| Bruce McLaren Motor Racing | M7A M7B M7C M9A | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | Bruce McLaren Denny Hulme Derek Bell | 38 (40) | 5th | |||
| Bruce McLaren Motor Racing | M7D M14A M14D | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 Alfa Romeo T33 3.0 V8 | Bruce McLaren Denny Hulme Peter Gethin Dan Gurney Andrea de Adamich Nanni Galli | 35 0 | 5th NC | |||
| Bruce McLaren Motor Racing | M14A M19A | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | Denny Hulme Peter Gethin Jackie Oliver | 10 | 6th | |||
| Yardley Team McLaren | M19A M19C | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | Denny Hulme Peter Revson Brian Redman Jody Scheckter | 47 (49) | 3rd | |||
| Yardley Team McLaren | M19A M19C M23 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | Denny Hulme Peter Revson Jody Scheckter Jacky Ickx | 58 | 3rd | |||
| Yardley Team McLaren Marlboro Team Texaco | M23 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 5. 6. 33. 33. 33. | Emerson Fittipaldi Denny Hulme Mike Hailwood David Hobbs Jochen Mass | 73 (75) | 1st | ||
| Marlboro Team Texaco | M23 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 1. 2. | Emerson Fittipaldi Jochen Mass | 53 | 3rd | ||
| Marlboro Team McLaren | M23 M26 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 11. 12. | James Hunt Jochen Mass | 74 (75) | 2nd | ||
| Marlboro Team McLaren | M23 M26 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 1. 2. 14. 40. | James Hunt Jochen Mass Bruno Giacomelli Gilles Villeneuve | 60 | 3rd | ||
| Marlboro Team McLaren | M26 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 7. 8. 33. | James Hunt Patrick Tambay Bruno Giacomelli | 15 | 8th | ||
| Marlboro Team McLaren Löwenbräu Team McLaren | M26 M28 M28B M28C M29 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 7. 8. | John Watson Patrick Tambay | 15 | 7th | ||
| Marlboro Team McLaren | M29B M29C M30 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 7. 8. 8. | John Watson Alain Prost Stephen South | 11 | 9th | ||
| Marlboro McLaren International | M29C M29F MP4 | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 7. 8. | John Watson Andrea de Cesaris | 28 | 6th | ||
| Marlboro McLaren International | MP4B | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 7. 8. | John Watson Niki Lauda | 69 | 2nd | ||
| Marlboro McLaren International | MP4/1C MP4/1E | Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 TAG-Porsche 1.5 V6 t | 7. 8. | John Watson Niki Lauda | 34 0 | 5th NC | ||
| Marlboro McLaren International | MP4/2 | TAG-Porsche 1.5 V6 t | 7. 8. | Niki Lauda Alain Prost | 143.5 | 1st | ||
| Marlboro McLaren International | MP4/2B | TAG-Porsche 1.5 V6 t | 1. 1. 2. | Niki Lauda John Watson Alain Prost | 90 | 1st | ||
| Marlboro McLaren International | MP4/2C | TAG-Porsche 1.5 V6 t | 1. 2. | Alain Prost Keke Rosberg | 96 | 2nd | ||
| Marlboro McLaren International | MP4/3 | TAG-Porsche 1.5 V6 t | 1. 2. | Alain Prost Stefan Johansson | 76 | 2nd | ||
| Honda Marlboro McLaren | MP4/4 | Honda RA168E 1.5 V6 t | 11. 12. | Alain Prost Ayrton Senna | 199 | 1st | ||
| Honda Marlboro McLaren | MP4/5 | Honda RA109E 3.5 V10 | 1. 2. | Ayrton Senna Alain Prost | 141 | 1st | ||
| Honda Marlboro McLaren | MP4/5B | Honda RA100E 3.5 V10 | 27. 28. | Ayrton Senna Gerhard Berger | 121 | 1st | ||
| Honda Marlboro McLaren | MP4/6 | Honda RA121E 3.5 V12 | 1. 2. | Ayrton Senna Gerhard Berger | 139 | 1st | ||
| Honda Marlboro McLaren | MP4/6B MP4/7A | Honda RA122E 3.5 V12 Honda RA122E/B 3.5 V12 | 1. 2. | Ayrton Senna Gerhard Berger | 99 | 2nd | ||
| Marlboro McLaren | MP4/8 | Ford HBE7 3.5 V8 | 7. 7. 8. | Michael Andretti Mika Häkkinen Ayrton Senna | 84 | 2nd | ||
| Marlboro McLaren Peugeot | MP4/9 | Peugeot A6 3.5 V10 | 7. 7. 8. | Mika Häkkinen Philippe Alliot Martin Brundle | 42 | 4th | ||
| Marlboro McLaren Mercedes | MP4/10 MP4/10B MP4/10C | Mercedes FO 110 3.0 V10 | 7. 7. 8. 8. | Mark Blundell Nigel Mansell Mika Häkkinen Jan Magnussen | 30 | 4th | ||
| Marlboro McLaren Mercedes | MP4/11 | Mercedes FO 110 3.0 V10 | 7. 8. | Mika Häkkinen David Coulthard | 49 | 4th | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes | MP4/12 | Mercedes FO 110E 3.0 V10 Mercedes FO 110F 3.0 V10 | 9. 10. | Mika Häkkinen David Coulthard | 63 | 4th | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes | MP4/13 | Mercedes FO 110G 3.0 V10 | 7. 8. | David Coulthard Mika Häkkinen | 156 | 1st | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes | MP4/14 | Mercedes FO 110H 3.0 V10 | 1. 2. | Mika Häkkinen David Coulthard | 124 | 2nd | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes | MP4/15 | Mercedes FO 110J 3.0 V10 | 1. 2. | Mika Häkkinen David Coulthard | 152 | 2nd | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes | MP4-16 | Mercedes FO 110K 3.0 V10 | 3. 4. | Mika Häkkinen David Coulthard | 102 | 2nd | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes | MP4-17 | Mercedes FO 110M 3.0 V10 | 3. 4. | David Coulthard Kimi Räikkönen | 65 | 3rd | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes | MP4-17D | Mercedes FO 110M 3.0 V10 Mercedes FO 110P 3.0 V10 | 5. 6. | David Coulthard Kimi Räikkönen | 142 | 3rd | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes | MP4-19 MP4-19B | Mercedes FO 110Q 3.0 V10 | 5. 6. | David Coulthard Kimi Räikkönen | 69 | 5th | ||
| West McLaren Mercedes Team McLaren Mercedes | MP4-20 | Mercedes FO 110R 3.0 V10 | 9. 10. 10. 10. | Kimi Räikkönen Juan Pablo Montoya Pedro de la Rosa Alexander Wurz | 182 | 2nd | ||
| Team McLaren Mercedes | MP4-21 | Mercedes FO 108S 2.4 V8 | 3. 4. 4. | Kimi Räikkönen Juan Pablo Montoya Pedro de la Rosa | 110 | 3rd | ||
| Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | MP4-22 | Mercedes FO 108T 2.4 V8 | 1. 2. | Fernando Alonso Lewis Hamilton | 0 (203) | EX | ||
| Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | MP4-23 | Mercedes FO 108T 2.4 V8 | 22. 23. | Lewis Hamilton Heikki Kovalainen | 151 | 2nd | ||
| Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | MP4-24 | Mercedes FO 108W 2.4 V8 | 1. 2. | Lewis Hamilton Heikki Kovalainen | 71 | 3rd | ||
| Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | MP4-25 | Mercedes FO 108X 2.4 V8 | 1. 2. | Jenson Button Lewis Hamilton | 454 | 2nd | ||
| Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | MP4-26 | Mercedes FO 108Y 2.4 V8 | 3. 4. | Lewis Hamilton Jenson Button | 497 | 2nd | ||
| Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | MP4-27 | Mercedes FO 108Z 2.4 V8 | 3. 4. | Jenson Button Lewis Hamilton | 378 | 3rd | ||
| Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | MP4-28 | Mercedes FO 108F 2.4 V8 | 5. 6. | Jenson Button Sergio Pérez | 122 | 5th | ||
| McLaren Mercedes | MP4-29 | Mercedes PU106A Hybrid 1.6 V6 t | 20. 22. | Kevin Magnussen Jenson Button | 181 | 5th | ||
| McLaren Honda | MP4-30 | Honda RA615H 1.6 V6 t | 14. 20. 22. | Fernando Alonso Kevin Magnussen Jenson Button | 27 | 9th | ||
| McLaren Honda | MP4-31 | Honda RA616H 1.6 V6 t | 14. 22. 47. | Fernando Alonso Jenson Button Stoffel Vandoorne | 76 | 6th | ||
| McLaren Honda | MCL32 | Honda RA617H 1.6 V6 t | 2. 14. 22. | Stoffel Vandoorne Fernando Alonso Jenson Button | 30 | 9th | ||
| McLaren F1 Team | MCL33 | Renault R.E.18 1.6 V6 t | 2. 14. | Stoffel Vandoorne Fernando Alonso | 62 | 6th | ||
| McLaren F1 Team | MCL34 | Renault E-Tech 19 1.6 V6 t | 4. 55. | Lando Norris Carlos Sainz Jr. | 145 | 4th | ||
| McLaren F1 Team | MCL35 | Renault E-Tech 20 1.6 V6 t | 4. 55. | Lando Norris Carlos Sainz Jr. | 202 | 3rd | ||
| McLaren F1 Team | MCL35M | Mercedes M12 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | 3. 4. | Daniel Ricciardo Lando Norris | 275 | 4th | ||
| McLaren F1 Team | MCL36 | Mercedes M13 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | 3. 4. | Daniel Ricciardo Lando Norris | 159 | 5th | ||
| McLaren Formula 1 Team | MCL60 | Mercedes M14 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | 4. 81. | Lando Norris Oscar Piastri | 302 | 4th | ||
| McLaren Formula 1 Team | MCL38 | Mercedes M15 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | 4. 81. | Lando Norris Oscar Piastri | 666 | 1st | ||
Drivers' champions
Eight drivers have won a total of thirteen Drivers' Championships with McLaren:
- Emerson Fittipaldi ()
- James Hunt ()
- Niki Lauda ()
- Alain Prost (, , )
- Ayrton Senna (, , )
- Mika Häkkinen (, )
- Lewis Hamilton ()
- Lando Norris ()
Esports
| Year | Name | No. | Drivers | Points | WCC | Source: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | McLaren Shadow | 20. 12. 32. | Bono Huis Enzo Bonito Olli Pahkala | 101 | 4th |
| 2019 | McLaren Shadow | 20. 12. 23. | Bono Huis Enzo Bonito Allert van der Wal | 105 | 6th |
| 2020 | McLaren Shadow | 25. 28. N.A. | Dani Moreno James Baldwin Matthias Collogon | 80 | 6th |
| 2021 | McLaren Shadow | 20. 12. 32. | Bari Broumand Daniel Berezmay Josh Idowu | 108 | 6th |
| 2022 | McLaren Shadow | 88. 7. 13. | Lucas Blakeley Bari Broumand Wilson Hughes | 330 | 1st |
| 2023-24 | McLaren Shadow | 12. 88. 26. | Jarno Wilson Hughes Lucas Blakeley Dani Moreno | 83 | 6th |
| 2025 | McLaren Shadow | 12. 88. 41. | Jarno Wilson Hughes Lucas Blakeley Alfie Butcher | 107 | 7th |
* Season still in progress
Esports Drivers' Champions
Formula One Esports Series
The following drivers won the Formula One Esports Drivers' Championship for McLaren Shadows:
- Lucas Blakeley (2022).
Complete F1 Esports Series results
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Points | WCC | 2018 | AUS | CHN | AZE | FRA | GBR | BEL | GER | SIN | USA | ABU | 101 | 4th | 2019 | BHR | CHN | AZE | CAN | RBR | GBR | GER | BEL | ITA | JPN | USA | BRA | 105 | 6th | 2020 | BHR | VIE | CHN | NED | CAN | RBR | GBR | BEL | ITA | JPN | MEX | BRA | 80 | 6th | 2021 | BHR | CHN | RBR | GBR | ITA | BEL | POR | NED | USA | EMI | MEX | BRA | 108 | 6th | 2022 | BHR | EMI | GBR | RBR | BEL | NED | ITA | MEX | USA | JPN | BRA | UAE | 330 | 1st | 2023–24 | BHR | JED | RBR | GBR | BEL | NED | USA | MEX | BRA | LVG | QAT | UAE | 83 | 6th | 2025 | AUS | CHN | BHR | SAU | GBR | BEL | NED | USA | MXC | SAP | QAT | ABU | 107 | 7th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bono Huis | 10 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| Enzo Bonito | 16 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 18 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 4 | |||
| Olli Pahkala | 16 | 11 | 9 | |||||||||
| Bono Huis | 10 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 19 |
| Enzo Bonito | 6 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 17 |
| Allert van der Wal | ||||||||||||
| Dani Moreno | 8 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| James Baldwin | 13 | 20 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 8 | |
| Matthias Cologon | 15 | |||||||||||
| Bari Broumand | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 17 |
| Daniel Bereznay | 14 | 12 | 11 | Ret | 14 | 15 | ||||||
| Josh Idowu | 12 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 14 | 5 | ||||||
| Lucas Blakeley | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Bari Broumand | 3 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
| Wilson Hughes | ||||||||||||
| Wilson Hughes | 19 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 12 | ||||
| Lucas Blakeley | 17 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 16 |
| Dani Moreno | 13 | 15 | 13 | 9 | ||||||||
| Wilson Hughes | ||||||||||||
| Lucas Blakeley | 19 | 11 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 12 |
| Alfie Butcher | 15 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 20 | 8 | 16 | 13 | 2 |
* Season still in progress
American open-wheel racing results
(key)
- In conjunction with Andretti Autosport.
- In conjunction with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.
- In conjunction with Hendrick Motorsports
Race wins
| # | Season | Date | Sanction | Track / Race | No. | Winning driver | Chassis | Engine | Tire | Grid | Laps Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1973 | 26 August | USAC | Ontario 500 Qualification Heat 2 (O) | 7 | Johnny Rutherford | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | Pole | 21 |
| 2 | 16 September | USAC | Michigan Speedway Twin 125s #2 (O) | 7 | Johnny Rutherford (2) | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | 2 | 49 | |
| 3 | 1974 | 3 March | USAC | Ontario 500 Qualification Heat 2 (O) | 3 | Johnny Rutherford (3) | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | Pole | 4 |
| 4 | 26 May | USAC | Indianapolis 500 (O) | 3 | Johnny Rutherford (4) | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | 25 | 122 | |
| 5 | 9 June | USAC | Milwaukee Mile (O) | 3 | Johnny Rutherford (5) | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | 2 | 58 | |
| 6 | 30 June | USAC | Pocono 500 (O) | 3 | Johnny Rutherford (6) | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | 25 | 122 | |
| 7 | 1975 | 16 March | USAC | Phoenix International Raceway (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford (7) | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | 2 | 97 |
| NC | 27 April | USAC | Trenton International Speedway (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | 2 | 69 | |
| 8 | 1976 | 2 May | USAC | Trenton International Speedway (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford (8) | McLaren M16C | Offenhauser | Goodyear | 2 | 60 |
| 9 | 30 May | USAC | Indianapolis 500 (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford (9) | McLaren M16E | Offenhauser | Goodyear | Pole | 48 | |
| 10 | 31 October | USAC | Texas World Speedway (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford (10) | McLaren M16E | Offenhauser | Goodyear | 6 | 9 | |
| 11 | 1977 | 27 March | USAC | Phoenix International Raceway (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford (11) | McLaren M24 | Cosworth DFX V8 t | Goodyear | Pole | 51 |
| 12 | 12 June | USAC | Milwaukee Mile (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford (12) | McLaren M24 | Cosworth DFX V8t | Goodyear | 2 | 103 | |
| 13 | 31 July | USAC | Texas World Speedway (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford (13) | McLaren M24 | Cosworth DFX V8t | Goodyear | 2 | 81 | |
| 14 | 21 August | USAC | Milwaukee Mile (O) | 2 | Johnny Rutherford (14) | McLaren M24 | Cosworth DFX V8t | Goodyear | 3 | 29 | |
| 15 | 1978 | 16 July | USAC | Michigan International Speedway (O) | 4 | Johnny Rutherford (15) | McLaren M24B | Cosworth DFX V8t | Goodyear | 2 | 53 |
| 16 | 28 October | USAC | Phoenix International Raceway (O) | 4 | Johnny Rutherford (16) | McLaren M24B | Cosworth DFX V8t | Goodyear | 3 | 67 | |
| 17 | 1979 | 22 April | CART | Atlanta Motor Speedway Race 1 (O) | 4 | Johnny Rutherford (17) | McLaren M24B | Cosworth DFX V8t | Goodyear | Pole | 30 |
| 18 | 22 April | CART | Atlanta Motor Speedway Race 2 (O) | 4 | Johnny Rutherford (18) | McLaren M24B | Cosworth DFX V8t | Goodyear | Pole | 61 | |
| 19 | 2021 | 2 May | IndyCar | Texas Motor Speedway (O) | 5 | Patricio O'Ward | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6 t | Firestone | 4 | 25 |
| 20 | 13 June | IndyCar | Belle Isle Street Circuit Race 2 | 5 | Patricio O'Ward (2) | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6t | Firestone | 16 | 3 | |
| 21 | 2022 | 1 May | IndyCar | Indy Grand Prix of Alabama | 5 | Patricio O'Ward (3) | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6t | Firestone | 2 | 27 |
| 22 | 24 July | IndyCar | Iowa Speedway race 2 (O) | 5 | Patricio O'Ward (4) | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6t | Firestone | 7 | 66 | |
| 23 | 2024 | 10 March | IndyCar | Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | 5 | Patricio O'Ward (5) | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6t | Firestone | 3 | align=center |
| 24 | 7 July | IndyCar | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course | 5 | Patricio O'Ward (6) | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6t | Firestone | 2 | 24 | |
| 25 | 31 August | IndyCar | Milwaukee Mile race 1 (O) | 5 | Patricio O'Ward (7) | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6t | Firestone | 6 | 133 | |
| 26 | 2025 | 12 July | IndyCar | Iowa Speedway race 1 (O) | 5 | Patricio O'Ward (8) | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6t | Firestone | 5 | 33 |
| 27 | 20 July | IndyCar | Exhibition Place | 5 | Patricio O'Ward (9) | Dallara UAK18 | Chevrolet IndyCar V6t | Firestone | 10 | 30 |
Extreme E results
Racing overview
| Year | Name | Car | Tyres | No. | Drivers | Rounds | Pts. | Pos. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | McLaren XE / NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team | Spark Odyssey 21 | 58. | M | Tanner Foust | (1–5) | 52 | 5th | |
| F | Emma Gilmour | (1–5) | |||||||
| 2023 | NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team | Spark Odyssey 21 | 58. | M | Tanner Foust | (1–10) | 68 | 8th | |
| F | Emma Gilmour | (1–7) | |||||||
| Tamara Molinaro | (7–8) | ||||||||
| Hedda Hosås | (9–10) | ||||||||
| 2024 | NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team | Spark Odyssey 21 | 58. | M | Mattias Ekström | (1–4) | 46 | 5th | |
| F | Cristina Gutiérrez | (1–4) |
Racing summary
| Year | Series | Races | Wins | Pod. | Pts. | Pos. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Extreme E | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 5th |
| 2023 | Extreme E | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 8th |
| 2024 | Extreme E | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 5th |
| Total | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 166 | – | |
Complete Extreme E results
(Races in bold indicate best qualifiers; races in italics indicate fastest super sector)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Pts. | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | McLaren XE / NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team | DES 5 | ISL1 10 | ISL2 6 | COP 5 | ENE 2 | 52 | 5th | |||||
| 2023 | NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team | DES1 6 | DES2 7 | HYD1 8 | HYD2 2 | ISL-I1 7 | ISL-I2 9 | ISL-II1 10 | ISL-II2 DNS | COP1 4 | COP2 5 | 68 | 8th |
| 2024 | NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team | DES1 2 | DES2 5 | HYD1 8 | HYD2 5 | 46 | 5th |
Formula E results
| Year | Chassis | Powertrain | Tyres | No. | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Points | NEOM McLaren Formula E Team | 2022–23 | Formula E Gen3 | Nissan e-4ORCE 04 | MEX | DRH | HYD | CAP | SAP | BER | MCO | JKT | POR | RME | LDN | 88 | 8th | 2023–24 | Formula E Gen3 | Nissan e-4ORCE 04 | MEX | DRH | SAP | TKO | ITA | MCO | BER | SHA | POR | LDN | 101 | 7th | 2024–25 | Formula E Gen3 Evo | Nissan e-4ORCE 04 | SAP | MEX | JED | MIA | MCO | TKO | SHA | JAK | BER | LDN | 143 | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | Ret | 10 | 8 | Ret | 18 | 5 | 10 | Ret | 18 | DNS | 11 | 10 | 19 | |
| 58 | René Rast | Ret | 5 | 3 | Ret | 4 | 9 | 17 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 14 | Ret | 13 | 14 | 12 |
| 5 | Jake Hughes | 7 | 11 | 4 | Ret | 14 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 21 | Ret | Ret | 10 |
| 8 | Sam Bird | 14 | 4 | Ret | 1 | 19 | Ret | 10 | WD | 17 | Ret | 7 | Ret | 8 | Ret | ||
| Taylor Barnard | 14 | 10 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Taylor Barnard | 3 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 3 | Ret | 3 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 13 | Ret |
| 8 | Sam Bird | 4 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 11 | Ret | NC | Ret |
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