McLaren have handed an F1 lifeline to Italian racing star Leonardo Fornaroli off the back of his 2025 F2 championship victory. At last weekend's Qatar Grand Prix, F1 and its competitive feeder series F2 took to the track in Lusail with both championships still up for grabs.

When Gordon Murray started work on the McLaren F1 around 1989, he warned that he was creating a pure road car, one that would be forever compromised for motorsport. Of course, millionaire buyers were soon lobbying for a race version, initially for the ...

Gordon Murray knocked the Burberry socks off everyone at Pebble Beach this year when he debuted the S1 LM, a clear homage to the original McLaren F1. It makes sense that Gordon Murray would build such a machine, given that he designed the F1 himself and ...

At the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, McLaren displayed “Project: Endurance,” the prototype for a customer track-day version of its planned FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) challenger, in a new livery that should familiar to fans of the company ...

30 years ago, McLaren won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a GT1 car based on the iconic McLaren F1. The brand is still two years out from its next attempt to win the race overall, but in the meantime, the brand is celebrating its past triumphs with a special ...

The world of F1 is considered the pinnacle of automobile engineering. After all, milliseconds decide who gets to spray champagne on the podium, and every single aspect of the car must be tuned to extract the maximum performance out of it. And if that means ...

McLaren is called “papaya” because the team’s signature colour is a bright orange that resembles the fruit. The colour, originally called “McLaren Orange,” was first used by the team’s founder, Bruce McLaren,