John Watson winds back the clock at Silverstone to drive the MP4/1 – but what does the car mean to McLaren?
With the aluminium tub of the M29 [McLaren’s 1979/80 car], it felt slightly wider
The complex aerodynamic structure of the McLaren MP4-23 would help Lewis Hamilton bring home the 2008 World Driver’s Championship.
installed in a chassis that represented a familiar mix of McLaren moulded carbon fibre/aluminium
The iconic McLaren M7A scored the team its first Formula One win at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix, helping to place McLaren second in the constructors’ championship.
the top in the fashion of the Lotus 25, and was skinned mainly in 22-gauge L72 aluminium
In partnership with Gemini, we’re celebrating the first McLaren F1 car, the M2B, with a full livery takeover at the British Grand Prix
feature the rear wing, and had a construction featuring notably less Mallite and more aluminium
The 1966 Monaco Grand Prix marked McLaren’s Formula 1 debut, with Bruce McLaren at the wheel of an M2B. Find out more about the iconic race here.
oil union had come loose in part because of the different expansion rates of the aluminium
A year in the making, followed by 60 years of memories: How Bruce McLaren started his own team
aerospace background, it featured a highly unusual chassis made out of Mallite, an aluminium
