Bruce McLaren, F1 driver

Monster Energy has partnered with McLaren on what is described as a “multi-year” contract, which will lead to the recognisable ‘M’ logo featuring on the helmets, race suits, caps and drinks bottles (branded in the past by Coca-Cola) of drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri from the 2024 season.While McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has used his vast experience in the commercial and marketing ...

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Lando Norris was threatening to nick pole position off Max Verstappen in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix season finale but on his final flying lap in Q3, he suffered a large slide through the final sector.This left Norris to rely on his earlier banker effort, which was only good enough for fifth place while rookie team-mate Oscar Piastri - who also battled big spikes of oversteer in practice - ran to ...

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McLaren announced on Friday that it would extend its current deal with Mercedes for five more seasons, from 2026 until 2030.It means McLaren is one of the last teams to commit to an engine manufacturer, with fellow Mercedes partner Williams now the only remaining team to sign up for 2026's rules shift and beyond.Stella explained that staying with Mercedes was an easy decision because of the ...

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The Woking-based team's current contract ran until the end of 2025 and it had been evaluating its options for the longer term.But ahead of the F1 season finale in Abu Dhabi, McLaren announced that a new five-year deal was in place.McLaren has been a partner of Mercedes since 2021, having previously enjoyed a period of world championship success with the company in the late 1990s. It remains the ...

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O'Ward will contest FP1 at this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix season finale in place of Lando Norris, with McLaren complying with FIA regulations by running a rookie driver in both of its cars.But that will be the only change McLaren has to field for a practice session this year since Oscar Piastri, completing his maiden F1 season, qualified as a rookie for the opening Bahrain and Saudi Arabian ...

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The Woking-based squad has made huge gains with its MCL60 this season to emerge as one of the most consistent challengers to Red Bull over the second half of the campaign. However, a more challenging time at last weekend's Las Vegas Grand Prix has highlighted that its rivals seem better prepared in low downforce configuration. And, with the calendar featuring a growing number of circuits where ...

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Aston was in front of the Woking outfit for most of the season until McLaren moved into fourth place in the constructors' world championship after the United States GP.Following fifth place for Lance Stroll and eighth place after a first-lap spin for Fernando Alonso in Las Vegas, Aston has narrowed the gap to 11 points, with just the season finale at Yas Island to come.Asked if the team will focus ...

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A disappointing qualifying for the Woking team saw the Australian start only 18th, but after avoiding the first-corner mayhem he made good progress up the order and even ran in third place for a while.However, the strategy of running the opening two stints on hard tyres after a clash with Lewis Hamilton triggered a premature first pit visit which obliged him to make a late pit stop for mediums ...

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On lap 3 of the race, Norris lost control of his McLaren through the flat-out left-hander of Turn 11 on a bump in the middle of the road.The Briton spun and went backwards into the outside wall, coming to a stop in the run-off area for Turn 12.After passing through the medical centre, Norris was sent to a nearby hospital for precautionary checks but was soon cleared and released.When asked what ...

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McLaren went into the inaugural race weekend around the streets of Vegas with muted expectations, but while similar pessimism proved unwarranted in Austin, Mexico or Brazil, it did turn out to be justified on the low-downforce street circuit.Lando Norris was knocked out by former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo by a mere 0.020s in Q1 to qualify 16th, while Oscar Piastri followed in 19th in what has ...

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Leclerc led all three segments of qualifying, which featured Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez not making the finale and both McLarens being knocked out in Q1.In the first two segments, the cars completed multiple runs on the same set of softs to build temperature and gain grip on the slippery, cool new Vegas track surface, but in Q3 the frontrunners completed typical single-lap efforts.After ...

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The Woking-based team has openly acknowledged that aero efficiency has been one of its core weaknesses this year – and this has often manifested itself in a lack of top speed. The squad has also been mindful that this is an area where Red Bull has been particularly strong, especially when its DRS is in use. But having understood where Red Bull's DRS advantage comes from – which relates to ...

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The Woking-based team has emerged as Red Bull’s most consistent challenger in recent races, with the squad having finished on the podium five times in the last six races.Having made impressive progress this year, it is aware that it still has more work to do before it can think about challenging the dominant Red Bull squad in pure pace terms. Speaking at the Brazilian Grand Prix, McLaren team ...

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McLaren has emerged as Red Bull's closest challenger since the summer after bringing a raft of highly effective upgrades to its MCL60 since Austria.Norris has taken five podiums across the past six races, with two for rookie team-mate Oscar Piastri, as McLaren is reaping the rewards of a technical restructure under team boss Andrea Stella.The consistency of its resurgence, which has set it apart ...

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McLaren's Norris took pole for the Brazilian Grand Prix's sprint and finished second behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen, and that result repeated itself in Sunday's grand prix after Norris jumped from sixth on the grid to second in Turn 1.But as rival teams faded and finished over 30 seconds behind the dominant Verstappen, who took a record 17th win of the campaign, Norris was the only driver able ...

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Although the Woking-based team had come off second best to Max Verstappen in the Brazil sprint race, it felt that it had a much better chance in the main grand prix.And following Norris' brilliant start in the original getaway on used softs, as he jumped from sixth on the grid to second by the first corner, McLaren says its mindset totally changed when the red flag came out as the result of the ...

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After taking pole in Saturday's shootout, Norris had a worse drive off the grid than fellow front-row starter Verstappen, who drew along the inside of Turn 1.Norris moved to the middle of the track but ultimately left the door ajar for Verstappen to swoop past and take the lead.Verstappen then comfortably controlled a 24-lap race dictated by tyre wear on Pirelli's softs, as Norris initially stayed ...

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The Briton had looked strong heading into the final Q3 shootout for the top grid spots, after leading the way in the Q2 segment of qualifying for Sunday's race.But drivers endured a tricky time in setting their laps in Q3 as a major storm blew over the Interlagos track, and Norris failed to repeat his earlier form and ended up seventh on the grid.Afterwards, Norris could not hide his ...

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For two seasons Ricciardo and McLaren tirelessly worked to make the Australian comfortable in the Woking squad's machinery.McLaren's current lineage of cars has a notorious low-speed weakness, which the team still hasn't been able to address, and its drivers have been forced to compromise their braking and cornering style more than they would like.And while Lando Norris, and now Oscar Piastri ...

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McLaren was braced for a difficult triple-header with races in Texas, Mexico and Brazil on three circuits that it feared would expose its slow-speed weakness and not cater to its high-downforce prowess.But the team's genuine pessimism proved unfounded as it scored another podium with Lando Norris at the US Grand Prix, and the Briton produced a stellar drive to move up from 17th to fifth in Mexico ...

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Norris says he felt like he let down the hundreds of people in his McLaren team who were relying on him to get the job done.Without a banker lap Norris had one shot at a time in Q1 in Mexico, but he ran wide and had to abort, leaving him in 17th on the final grid.The mishap came just a couple of races after Norris had a fraught time at the Qatar sprint weekend, when he made costly mistakes ...

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The McLaren driver had looked to be a strong contender to challenge for pole position in Mexico City, after showing some impressive form in Friday practice.But it all went wrong at the start of qualifying when his first banker run on medium tyres was aborted following an instruction from the pitwall.That left him with everything to do on his final effort when there would be no margin for error ...

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Lando Norris jumped polesitter Charles Leclerc into Turn 1 of the United States Grand Prix last weekend before race winner Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton demoted the Briton down to third - although the lead Mercedes was then disqualified for running with an excessively worn rear plank.Given that the remaining rounds in Mexico, Brazil, Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi represent a move away from ...

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Norris jumped Ferrari's Charles Leclerc at the start to lead the first half of Sunday's United States Grand Prix. But he was powerless to keep Red Bull's Max Verstappen from a 15th season win and also had to let Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes past in the closing stages.Afterwards, Norris was promoted back to second when Hamilton was disqualified for excessive plank wear, meaning the Briton has now ...

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Major update pushes from Red Bull’s rivals have appeared to lift teams like McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes ever closer to F1’s benchmark squad.This seemed especially true in the sprint shootout qualifying at the United States Grand Prix where the top four teams were covered by just more than one tenth of a second.But with world champion Max Verstappen converting his pole position advantage of ...

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