McLaren
McLaren Racing Limited is a Formula 1 racing team. McLaren was started by Bruce McLaren in 1963. McLaren's current drivers are Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.
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Full name | McLaren F1 Team |
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Base | Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom 51°20′45″N 0°32′52″W / 51.34583°N 0.54778°WCoordinates: 51°20′45″N 0°32′52″W / 51.34583°N 0.54778°W |
Team principal(s) | Andrea Stella |
2021 Formula One season | |
Race drivers | 2023, NOT 2021 4. Lando Norris 81. Oscar Piastri |
Test drivers | Álex Palou 47. Mick Schumacher Felipe Drugovich Stoffel Vandoorne |
Formula One World Championship Career | |
Debut | 1966 Monaco Grand Prix |
Latest race | 2023 British Grand Prix |
Races competed | 938 |
Constructors' Championships | 8 (1974, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998) |
Drivers' Championships | 12 (1974, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2008) |
Race victories | 183 |
Pole positions | 156 |
Fastest laps | 161 [1] |
2022 position | 5th (159 points) |
McLaren also makes road cars at its Woking factory.
Formula One World Championship results
McLaren Media
The McLaren Racing team's founder Bruce McLaren
The McLaren M2B, the team's first Formula One car
Emerson Fittipaldi won the 1974 Drivers' Championship with McLaren.
Alain Prost, pictured here at the 1985 German Grand Prix, won three Drivers' Championships with McLaren.
Equipped with Honda engines and the driving strength of Prost and Ayrton Senna for 1988, McLaren dominated the season, winning all but one race. Senna won his first world championship after a season-long battle with Prost.
Mika Häkkinen won the 1998 and 1999 Drivers' Championships with McLaren. He is shown here at the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix, an event which he won.
Mechanics push Kimi Räikkönen's MP4-19 into the garage during qualifying for the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2004.
Jenson Button driving at the 2014 Chinese Grand Prix
References
- ↑ Includes John Surtees' fastest lap in the 1970 South African Grand Prix in a non-works McLaren.