Bruce McLaren

Sainz has signed a two-year McLaren deal after losing his Renault drive to Daniel Ricciardo.<br>The Spaniard contested the final four races of 2017 with Renault before completing the entire 2018 season with the French manufacturer.<br>"Moving to Renault has been a great experience for me and going to a team like McLaren with similar resources is going to help me," said Sainz.<br>"This year of ...

read on

The British team is the second most successful in F1's history but has not won since the 2012 season finale or stood on the podium since the 2014 season opener.<br>It expected to challenge for podiums following its switch to Renault engines last year, after three years of pain with Honda, but the performance of its MCL33 was disappointing.<br>Since racing chief Eric Boullier left at the start of ...

read on

The Mexican driver was one of several on McLaren's shortlist as a replacement for Stoffel Vandoorne for the 2019 season, the seat eventually going to Lando Norris.<br>"We think Sergio is an excellent driver and deserves to be on that list," said McLaren boss Zak Brown last year.<br>Perez drove for McLaren in 2013, but was replaced after a difficult season, the Mexican joining Force India - now ...

read on

The two British teams are two of F1's most successful, claiming 17 constructors' titles and 296 victories between them, but neither has won a race since 2012.<br>Williams has not won a title since Jacques Villeneuve's 1997 success and, having enjoyed a return to prominence at the start of the V6 turbo-hybrid engine era in 2014, slumped to last in the constructors' championship in 2018.<br>McLaren ...

read on

Alonso elected to step away from F1 for 2019 in the wake of a disappointing campaign last year where McLaren did not make the progress he had hoped for.<br>With McLaren having signed youngster Carlos Sainz and rookie Lando Norris, it is aware that neither of its drivers has enjoyed the kind of success its previous team leader had.<br>But McLaren CEO Zak Brown has faith that the duo are capable of ...

read on

After all, as McLaren CEO Zak Brown said at the end of last year: “When you have CEOs and team principals in and out, and racing directors in and out, it is hard to get a path forward.”<br>But as the dust settled on a tumultuous 2018 campaign that had witnessed the departure of racing director Eric Boullier, tech chief Tim Goss and engineering director Matt Morris, it was clear that the team ...

read on

In a move which McLaren says is the next step in their "recovery plan and restructure", former boss of the Porsche World Endurance Championship outfit Andreas Seidl will join the team during 2019. <br><br>Continuing their efforts to revise the team's structure after a disappointing 2018 season, Seidl joins the team as the new managing director of the McLaren F1 team, with the team saying that he ...

read on

Following a major shake-up at the Woking-based outfit last season following a disappointing start to the campaign, CEO Zak Brown has managed to lure Seidl away from Porsche.<br>Seidl arrives at McLaren after a successful spell overseeing Porsche's WEC championship and Le Mans success from 2015 to 2017, prior to the German car manufacturer's withdrawal from the category.<br>The team said Seidl will ...

read on

Despite the two British outfits being amongst the most successful in F1 history, a raft of issues left them battling near the bottom of the grid in 2018 as their rivals stepped up their game.<br>Brawn, who is F1's managing director of motorsports, reckons that while a title-winning team like Mercedes has benefited from huge stability, staffing reshuffles at McLaren and Williams over recent years ...

read on

McLaren has won 182 races and sits only behind Ferrari (235 victories) in the all-time list, but has suffered six winless seasons and not scored a podium since the 2014 opener in Australia.<br>Its 2018 season was blighted by an inherent aerodynamic problem the team claims to have understood for a fresh start in 2019, when Sainz joins alongside Formula 2 graduate Lando Norris.<br>"I want to see ...

read on

Norris steps up to a race drive with McLaren after two seasons with the British team as a young driver in 2017 and F1 reserve alongside his Formula 2 commitments last year.<br>McLaren is bidding to get back to better form after almost five full seasons without a podium finish, and has made several changes behind-the-scenes to facilitate its progress.<br>Asked how confident he is for a turnaround ...

read on

As previously reported, Toro Rosso's 2019 car will use as many Red Bull-designed parts as possible, a move partly inspired by the shared use of Honda engines.<br>Red Bull motorsport advisor Dr Helmut Marko has revealed that the closer ties will mean Toro Rosso does not hire a replacement for Key, who is set to join McLaren in 2019.<br>"We can't have almost the same technical team in Faenza [Toro ...

read on

The team announced the date with a Valentine's Day theme, featuring two orange crash helmets inside a heart-shape, with the words "Some cars are red, others are blue. On Valentine's Day, we'll reveal ours to you".<br> <br>The MCL34 will mark the beginning of a new era for the team, which embarks on life without Fernando Alonso as one of its race drivers following his decision to step away from F1 ...

read on

Did he quit or was he pushed out? That was the question is everyone's mind since Fernando Alonso announced his retirement from F1 at the end of the 2018 season.<br>Following 17 seasons in grand prix racing, the two-time world champion decided to put an end - for now at least - to his F1 career after year another season that failed to deliver what he had hoped for since rejoining McLaren for the ...

read on

This deal came together extremely late in the car’s development cycle, so much so that it compromised the overall design decisions and weakened its challenge. The MCL33 was an evolution of its predecessors, cars that the team had often ‘talked up’ as being one of the best on the grid, save for the lack of performance and reliability from the Honda power unit.<br>However, the truncated ...

read on

Alonso has decided to leave F1 after another season spent fighting for scraps, ending his four-year reunion with McLaren without a single podium finish.<br>McLaren has endured one of the worst years of its F1 history because of an inherent aerodynamic problem with its MCL33 that resulted in too much drag but a failure to maintain downforce levels through corners.<br>Alonso said that the reasons ...

read on

The Japanese company returned to F1 in 2015 as sole engine supplier to McLaren, but a troubled and acrimonious tenure led to the pair parting ways at the end of '17.<br>Honda joined forces with Toro Rosso for this season and the new partnership ended the campaign eighth in the constructors' table with 33 points, three more than Honda managed with McLaren the previous season.<br>"The biggest change ...

read on

Although Alonso has now left F1 and will continue his World Endurance Championship commitments, as well as return to the Indianapolis 500, he is expected to retain close links to the McLaren F1 team.<br>There had been speculation that Alonso could test McLaren's 2019 car, and both Carlos Sainz Jr and Lando Norris have said they would welcome the two-time F1 champion's input.<br>But McLaren is keen ...

read on

While the French car manufacturer failed to do enough last year to convince Red Bull to remain with it, the early indications are that it has made some decent steps with work on the next generation of engine that will power its works team and McLaren.<br>Speaking to selected media on Wednesday, McLaren CEO Zak Brown revealed that there was a mood of optimism coming out of Renault about its ...

read on

When McLaren signed a deal to switch to Renault from Honda for the start of the 2018 campaign, many expected that the Woking-based team would be fighting for podiums and even wins.<br>However, a fundamental aero problem with the team's MCL33 left the outfit struggling for performance and its form fell away over the course of the season.<br>That left the way open for Haas to emerge as one of the ...

read on

Following three difficult years with the Japanese manufacturer, McLaren elected to make the switch to become Renault customers for 2018.<br>The decision is believed to have cost McLaren as much as a net $100 million - thanks to losing Honda's free engines and financial backing, plus having to pay for Renault's power units.<br>The move also exposed weaknesses within the McLaren organisation as the ...

read on

Two-time F1 world champion has departed grand prix racing at the conclusion of the 2018 season, albeit leaving the door open to a future comeback.<br>His decision to compete elsewhere in 2019, coupled with teammate Stoffel Vandoorne being let go by McLaren, means that the Woking-based team heads into next year with an all-new driver line-up.<br>CEO Zak Brown left the door open to Alonso trying out ...

read on

Through its McLaren Applied Technologies (MAT) company, the McLaren Group will become a 50 percent partner in the outfit and wants to turn it into a winner on the world stage. MAT has previously collaborated with Californian bicycle manufacturer Specialized, as well helping Team GB ahead of the 2012 London Olympics. But the Bahrain Merida tie-up is a much more longer term involvement that will ...

read on

Rather than this being a simple branding exercise – with just a pretty logo and a few photo opportunities with drivers – the new special edition OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition has delivered something that is of genuine interest to those who follow the sport closely. Under the spotlights at McLaren’s Woking factory on Tuesday, the official launch of the handset revealed how the new generation ...

read on

After a difficult 2018 campaign that was hindered by a fundamental aero problem on the MCL33, McLaren has undertaken a restructuring to help ensure it does not repeat its mistakes in the future. And although the squad was unable to show its progress in understanding the problems on track, Sainz says that the message he has had from McLaren team members is that it knows what steps it needs to ...

read on