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The McLaren MP4/1 (initially known as the MP4) was a Formula One racing car produced by the McLaren team. It was used during the 1981 , 1982 and 1983 seasons. It was the second Formula One car to use a monocoque chassis wholly manufactured from carbon fibre composite, after the Lotus 88 (which never raced), a concept which is now ubiquitous.
McLaren Automotive (/ m ə ˈ k l ær ə n / mə-KLARR-ən; formerly known as McLaren Cars) is a British luxury automotive manufacturer based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England. The main products of the company are sports cars , which are produced in-house in designated production facilities.
McLaren fitted circuit-specific beam and rear wings to suit the high downforce requirements of the Circuit de Monaco. [80] Piastri and Norris qualified second and fourth respectively, [81] and they finished in the same positions. [82] Norris moved up to third in the WDC. For the Canadian Grand Prix, Norris qualified third and Piastri fourth. [83]
The group was founded by Ron Dennis shortly after his acquisition of the McLaren Formula One team in 1981, as the TAG McLaren Group due to a partnership with Mansour Ojjeh's TAG Group. The Formula One team had been established by New Zealander Bruce McLaren in 1963. McLaren Group was renamed McLaren Technology Group in 2015. In June 2017 it was ...
The programme was founded in 1998 by McLaren and Mercedes as the McLaren-Mercedes Young Driver Support Programme. The programme notably signed Lewis Hamilton, Nick Heidfeld and Nicolas Minassian as some of its first drivers. From 2019 to 2021, no drivers were part of the program.
In Motorsport McLaren Applied is perhaps best known for manufacturing the Standard Electronic Control Unit (SECU) for all F1 teams. [4] McLaren Applied have supplied this electronic control unit since 2008, [5] and most recently secured a further extension of this contract to be F1's ECU provider from 2026 - 2030. [6]
The McLaren Technology Centre is the headquarters of the McLaren Group and its subsidiaries, located on a 500,000 m 2 (50 ha) site in Woking, Surrey, England. [1] The complex consists of two buildings: the original McLaren Technology Centre, which acts as the main headquarters for the group, and the newer McLaren Production Centre, primarily used for manufacturing McLaren Automotive cars.
The McLaren MP4-28 [7] is a Formula One racing car designed and built by the McLaren team for use in the 2013 Formula One season. The chassis was designed by Paddy Lowe , [ 8 ] Neil Oatley , Tim Goss , Mark Ingham and Marcin Budkowski and was powered by a customer Mercedes-Benz engine.