McLaren has turn into the third staff to verify it is going to run a particular livery for this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix.
The staff mentioned its ‘Legend Reborn’ livery apes the look of its automobiles from 1981 to 1996. The staff ran within the colors of its main sponsor, tobacco model Marlboro, throughout that point.
The interval lined the primary 15 years after Ron Dennis’ takeover of the staff and the introduction of the primary in its sequence of MP4-designated automobiles. These have been extremely profitable, delivering constructors’ championships for the staff and drivers’ titles for Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. The names of 13 of the staff’s drivers from the period function within the automobile’s cockpit.
McLaren’s automobiles additionally appeared in the identical colors for a few years earlier than 1981, together with when Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt received the world championship for them.
For this weekend the livery has been rendered with McLaren’s heritage papaya color instead of crimson. The staff ran the same tribute livery on Felix Rosenqvist’s IndyCar on the Indianapolis 500 final 12 months. The F1 design has been created in affiliation with its sponsor OKX.
The staff will maintain a proper presentation of its livery in Singapore at this time with drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and staff principal Zak Brown.
That is McLaren’s third change of livery this 12 months. They beforehand ran particular designs on the Japanese and Monaco grands prix, the latter a tribute to Senna.
Mercedes and RB have additionally revealed modifications to their liveries for this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix. Purple Bull, nonetheless, shelved plans to run a design created as a part of a contest for followers, after realising it will add an excessive amount of weight to their RB20.
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