McLaren F1 Team stats & info

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Name McLaren
Country United Kingdom United Kingdom
Season Entries 58
Total Drivers 62
First Race 1966 Monaco F1 GP
Last Race 2023 Japanese F1 GP
First Pole 1972 Canadian F1 GP
Last Pole 2021 Russian F1 GP
First Win 1968 Belgian F1 GP
Last Win 2021 Italian F1 GP
First Podium 1968 Spanish F1 GP
Last Podium 2023 Japanese F1 GP

Amount of staff: 750 people (2018)
Engines used by McLaren:
Ford (1966), (1968-1983, 1993),
Serenissima (1966),
BRM (1967-1968),
Alfa Romeo (1970),
Cosworth (1971),
TAG (1983-1987),
Honda (1988-1992, 2015-2017),
Peugeot (1994),
Mercedes (1995-2014, 2021-2023),
Renault (2018-2020)

McLaren F1 Stats

Constructors' Titles 8
Drivers' Titles 12
Race Entries 943
Race Starts 940
Race Wins 183 (19,4%)
Podiums 499 (52,9%)
One-Two Finishes 48 (5,1%)
Pole Positions 156 (16,5%)
Front row Starts 63 (6,7%)
Fastest Laps 162 (17,2%)
Total Points 6251.5
Total Laps 99508
Retirements 647 (68,6%)

Drivers

 

McLaren 2023 F1 Drivers


Lando Norris F1 Stats

Race Entries 98
Race Starts 98
Race Wins 0
Pole Positions 1 (1,0%)
Fastest Laps 5 (5,1%)
Podiums 10 (10,2%)
Points Finishes 73 (74,5%)
Retirements 9 (9,2%)
Front Row Starts 4
Total Points 543
Total Laps 5.552

Oscar Piastri F1 Stats

Race Entries 16
Race Starts 16
Race Wins 0
Pole Positions 0
Fastest Laps 1 (6,3%)
Podiums 1 (6,3%)
Points Finishes 8 (50,0%)
Retirements 2 (12,5%)
Front Row Starts 1
Total Points 57
Total Laps 870

McLaren F1 Drivers List

Driver GP 1st 2nd 3rd Pod Pole Laps FL PTS
United Kingdom David Coulthard 150 12 21 18 51 7 7755 14 412
United Kingdom Jenson Button 136 8 10 8 26 1 7455 6 908
Finland Mika Häkkinen 131 20 14 17 51 26 6277 25 407
United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton 110 21 16 12 49 26 6065 12 913
France Alain Prost 107 30 21 12 63 10 5832 24 458.5
United Kingdom Lando Norris 98 0 5 5 10 1 5552 5 543
Brazil Ayrton Senna 96 35 12 8 55 46 5157 12 451
Spain Fernando Alonso 94 4 4 4 12 2 4725 5 241
Finland Kimi Räikkönen 87 9 15 12 36 11 4253 19 337
New Zealand Denny Hulme 86 6 5 10 21 1 4862 5 174
United Kingdom John Watson 73 4 4 5 13 0 3717 3 109
Austria Niki Lauda 58 8 5 2 15 0 2783 8 128
Germany Jochen Mass 49 1 1 6 8 0 2361 2 64
United Kingdom James Hunt 49 9 2 3 14 14 2241 5 117
Austria Gerhard Berger 48 3 7 8 18 4 2323 7 135
Australia Daniel Ricciardo 44 1 0 0 1 0 2463 1 152
Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne 41 0 0 0 0 0 2216 0 26
Spain Carlos Sainz 37 0 1 1 2 0 2015 1 201
New Zealand Bruce McLaren 35 1 4 2 7 0 1828 0 60
Finland Heikki Kovalainen 35 1 1 1 3 1 1799 2 75
France Patrick Tambay 28 0 0 0 0 0 1232 0 8
Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi 28 5 6 2 13 2 1567 1 100
Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya 26 3 2 2 7 2 1268 1 86
United Kingdom Peter Revson 23 2 2 4 8 1 1402 0 61
Mexico Sergio Pérez 19 0 0 0 0 0 1115 1 49
Denmark Kevin Magnussen 19 0 1 0 1 0 1112 0 55
United States Brett Lunger 17 0 0 0 0 0 826 0 0
United Kingdom Martin Brundle 16 0 1 1 2 0 672 0 16
Finland Keke Rosberg 16 0 1 0 1 1 697 0 22
Sweden Stefan Johansson 16 0 2 3 5 0 771 0 30
Australia Oscar Piastri 16 0 0 1 1 0 870 1 57
United Kingdom Mark Blundell 15 0 0 0 0 0 798 0 13
United Kingdom Peter Gethin 14 0 0 0 0 0 629 0 1
Italy Andrea de Cesaris 14 0 0 0 0 0 448 0 1
United States Michael Andretti 13 0 0 1 1 0 427 0 7
United Kingdom Mike Hailwood 11 0 0 1 1 0 566 0 12
Sweden Jo Bonnier 11 0 0 0 0 0 375 0 1
Spain Pedro de la Rosa 9 0 1 0 1 0 456 1 23
Italy Bruno Giacomelli 6 0 0 0 0 0 309 0 0
United States Dan Gurney 6 0 0 0 0 0 264 0 4
South Africa Jody Scheckter 6 0 0 0 0 0 247 0 0
Italy Andrea de Adamich 5 0 0 0 0 0 216 0 0
United Kingdom John Surtees 4 0 0 0 0 0 229 1 1
United Kingdom Vic Elford 4 0 0 0 0 0 203 0 3
Brazil Nelson Piquet 3 0 0 0 0 0 60 0 0
United Kingdom Jackie Oliver 3 0 0 0 0 0 108 0 0
United Kingdom David Hobbs 3 0 0 0 0 0 162 0 0
United Kingdom Brian Redman 3 0 0 0 0 0 129 0 4
United Kingdom Nigel Mansell 2 0 0 0 0 0 79 0 0
Spain Emilio de Villota 2 0 0 0 0 0 120 0 0
South Africa Dave Charlton 2 0 0 0 0 0 147 0 0
Belgium Jacky Ickx 1 0 0 1 1 0 14 0 4
France Philippe Alliot 1 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0
United Kingdom Derek Bell 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
Denmark Jan Magnussen 1 0 0 0 0 0 81 0 0
Canada Gilles Villeneuve 1 0 0 0 0 0 66 0 0
South Africa Basil van Rooyen 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0
Austria Alexander Wurz 1 0 0 1 1 0 62 0 6
United States Mark Donohue 1 0 0 1 1 0 64 0 4

Cars

 

McLaren F1 Cars


Management

 

McLaren F1 Team Key Members


History

 

McLaren F1 Team History


Alain Prost wins 1984 Monaco F1 GP in McLaren MP4-2

Alain Prost wins 1984 Monaco F1 GP in McLaren MP4-2

McLaren are one of the oldest and most successful teams in Formula 1, and are the great rivals of the illustrious Ferrari team.

Since their debut back in 1966, the team has gone on to win eight Constructors Championships and 12 Drivers' titles.

They have also seen some of the sport’s greatest names at the wheel of their cars. Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda, Mika Hakkinen and Lewis Hamilton, to name a few.

Founded by New Zealand driver Bruce McLaren back in 1963, the team had to wait a further three years for its debut, at Monte-Carlo.

Julian Jakobi 2020 Beyond the Grid interview

Teammates Senna & Prost worst moment in Japan 1989

After two years of little success as the team’s only driver, Bruce was joined by fellow Kiwi Denny Hulme in 1968. They won three races that season, with Bruce claiming their maiden victory at Spa.

After the founder’s death in 1970, their progress was halted but after four years of rebuilding, they finally claimed their first world championship, courtesy of Emerson Fittipaldi in the McLaren M23

They backed that up in 1976 when Britain’s James Hunt won one of the tightest championship seasons ever in 1976, holding off Lauda's Ferrari.

However, a run of uncompetitive years left McLaren scrapping for points lower down the grid. But seven championships in eight years through the mid-80s to early 90s was arguably as dominant as any team has ever been in possibly F1’s greatest era.

Brown: Selling McLaren factory a'good decision'

Aerial view of the McLaren Technology Centre (left) and McLaren factory

Lauda held off team-mate Prost to claim the 1984 F1 championship by half a point before the meticulous Prost went on the win in both 1985 and 1986.

After Lauda moved on, Prost was joined by the up-and-coming Ayrton Senna, the team was so dominant that the pair won 15 of 16 races in 1988. Senna won a very tight maiden championship as the MP4/4 won 15 of the 16 races in 1988.

In 1989, the relationship between Prost and Senna started to crumble and soured further when the pair clashed in Japan, with Prost controversially winning the title in another year of McLaren dominance.

After the Professor left to join Ferrari, Senna had a free reign and won back-to-back titles in 1990 and 1991.

There has been further success for Hakkinen (1998 and 1999) and Lewis Hamilton (2008) but despite remaining competitive, three championships in 24 years are not what McLaren expected since their dominant decade.

Mika Hakkinen (McLaren MP4-15 Mercedes) 2nd position. Suzuka, Japan. 6-8 October 2000

Mika Hakkinen (McLaren MP4-15 Mercedes) 2nd position. Suzuka, Japan. 6-8 October 2000

They remain a big team but with the financial backing of other teams, their task to return to the front is harder than ever.

The Honda engine adventure (2015-2017) turned out to a big disaster. The team had a dramatic 2015 F1 season, in which McLaren had to settle for ninth position in the constructors' championship. Even though the team had a tremendous lineup of drivers with two world champions, Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button, the Honda power unit wasn't great at the time, and the rest of the car also had many issues.

Every start of a new season the hopes get up high, but 2016 turned out bad for McLaren and Ron Dennis, who achieved a lot of success in the earlier Honda years with Senna and Prost, left the team

For the 2017 F1 season the team came up with a new livery (orange/black) but the 2017 season turned out to be one of the worst in the history of the team. The Honda engine still was not powerful and reliable enough to be competitive. The team ended up in ninth place in the constructors' championship again. Stoffel Vandoorne, the team's new driver back then, also had difficulty adapting to the high downforce F1 cars.

For 2018 the team had managed to swap engines with Red Bull Racing. They got the Renault engine and the car now became completely orange (Papaya) like in the old days. Red Bull was very interested to pick up the Honda project, as their cooperation with Renault had deteriorated quickly after many reliability problems and  Renault had bought away Daniel Ricciardo from Red Bull. The McLaren team had to put a lot of effort into adapting to the Renault engine.

Results 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Brazil

Lewis Hamilton F1 Champion 2008

Vandoorne and Alonso were still driving for McLaren and the team did a bit better by going up three places to end up as sixth in the WCC. But the 2018 F1 season still wasn't one to quickly forget with no podium finishes and a fifth-place as the best result in the very first race. It was time to change the drivers now, as Alonso took a sabbatical and Vandoorne left the team.

In 2019, McLaren gave another rookie a chance to shine. Zak Brown who was the new CEO of McLaren was enthusiastic about a young 19-year-old British driver called Lando Norris. He was paired with Carlos Sainz, who came from Renault after the team went all-in on Daniel Ricciardo in the drivers' market.

In 2019, McLaren showed lots of promise and finished fourth in the World Constructors' Championship after consistent and reliable performances from their drivers, especially Sainz, who finished sixth in the WDC. With 145 points in 2019, McLaren had their best year since 2014.

The team returned to the Formula 1 podium after more than five years, with Sainz finishing third in the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix.

The 2020 campaign was consistent for McLaren, again, and the team was able to finish third in the WCC with 202 points, its best tally since the 2012 F1 season.

McLaren MP4-29 F1 car launch pictures

AUTODROMO NAZIONALE MONZA, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 12: Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren MCL35M, leads Lando Norris, McLaren MCL35M during the Italian GP at Autodromo Nazionale Monza on Sunday September 12, 2021 in Monza, Italy. (Photo by Mark Sutton / LAT Images)

Norris finished the first race of the 2020 F1 season on the podium with a third-place, while Sainz scored another podium for the Woking-based team, coming close to winning the 2020 Italian Grand Prix, but ultimately finishing second.

A return to victory for McLaren came in 2021 when Daniel Ricciardo led a McLaren 1-2 at Monza to win the 2021 Italian Grand Prix. As championship contenders Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) and Max Verstappen (Red Bull) crashed out of the race, it'd be easy for many to think that that was the reason behind McLaren's win at Monza in 2021.

However, Ricciardo had started the race in second place and got off the line brilliantly to lead into the first corner, ahead of Verstappen. Then, he led comfortably, winning the race after leading all but five laps of the 53-lap race. It was McLaren's first win since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix and the first 1-2 finish since the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix.

Ultimately, McLaren finished the season in fourth place in the WCC, as the team's form dipped a bit after the win at Monza.

The team managed to be fifth in the 2022 World Constructors' Championship under F1's new era. Although the team, consisting of Norris and Ricciardo again, scored its lowest tally of points since 2019 (159), McLaren was the only team outside of the Top 3 to score a podium.Alpine in no hurry to rule out 2022 Latifi-Piastri swap

Norris finished third for McLaren in the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, which was the team's best result of the year.

On 24 August 2022, the team and Ricciardo announced that the partnership would end after the 2022 season, although he still had a year remaining in his contract. Ricciardo scored 37 points, which looked unsuccessful alongside Norris' 122 for the season.

On 2 September 2022, McLaren announced Australian Oscar Piastri as their driver for 2023. The Australian, who won the 2021 F2 championship, and McLaren had to go through a contract dispute with Alpine which was settled by Formula 1's Contract Recognition Board (CRB).

Another change for 2023 included Andreas Seidl's departure, as McLaren's former Team Principal went to Alfa Romeo. Moreover, Andrea Stella took the Team Principal job for McLaren.

McLaren MP4-29 F1 car launch pictures

MELBOURNE GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 31: Lando Norris, McLaren MCL60 during the Australian GP at Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit on Friday March 31, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Lionel Ng / LAT Images)

Struggles at the start but solid performance in the 2023 F1 season

McLaren started the 2023 campaign clearly on the back foot, with two scoreless outings in the first two Grands Prix of the year in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

The team managed to take advantage of others' mistakes and favorable circumstances in the 2023 Australian Grand Prix and jumped from being scoreless to fifth in the World Constructors' Championship after Norris and the rookie Piastri finished sixth and eighth in the event.

Despite looking like the sixth-strongest car, the ninth race of the 2023 F1 season saw McLaren performing at a high level, with Norris finishing fourth in that race.

Moreover, the 10th race of the year, the 2023 British Grand Prix, was special for the team. McLaren painted its cars with the iconic chrome silver, which was present when the team won its most recent title in 2008.

In that race, Norris and Piastri qualified second and third and Norris finished the event in second place, achieving his seventh F1 podium and McLaren's 495th in its history. On his side, the rookie Piastri finished fourth, his best result in Formula 1 so far.

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Achievements

 

McLaren F1 Achievements


McLaren F1 Classifications

1th183 Times
2th164 Times
3th152 Times
4th127 Times
5th130 Times
6th109 Times
7th103 Times
8th71 Times
9th71 Times
10th49 Times
11th53 Times
12th49 Times
13th31 Times
14th31 Times
15th18 Times
16th18 Times
17th11 Times
18th9 Times
19th4 Times
20th2 Times
DNF527 Times
DSQ12 Times
NC8 Times
DNPQ2 Times
DNQ25 Times
DNS15 Times

McLaren F1 Team Championship Positions

19661967196819691970197119721973
8th9th2th4th5th6th3th3th
19741975197619771978197919801981
1th3th2th3th8th7th9th6th
19821983198419851986198719881989
2th5th1th1th2th2th1th1th
19901991199219931994199519961997
1th1th2th2th4th4th4th4th
19981999200020012002200320042005
1th2th2th2th3th3th5th2th
20062007200820092010201120122013
3th11th2th3th2th2th3th5th
20142015201620172018201920202021
5th9th6th9th6th4th3th4th
20222023      
5th5th      

News

 

Latest McLaren News


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Ricciardo's Redemption: From McLaren Exit to a Return to F1 Glory

Oct.3 - Daniel Ricciardo is not hiding that he is eyeing the cockpit alongside Max Verstappen. The Australian, currently recovering from a broken hand, dropped out of Formula 1..

October 3, 2023 with 1 Comment

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Top secret access to Mission Control during F1 Qualifying

Over 9,000km away… but still an integral part of our team. Go into Mission Control at the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) with the strategy team during qualifying for the..

September 29, 2023 with 0 Comments

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Piastri's Formula 1 Triumphs Spark Red Bull's Interest in Young Talent

Sep.27 - As Oscar Piastri soared to his first front-row qualifying effort and podium at Suzuka, the superlatives are now flowing. "It wasn't my best race ever," the new McLaren..

September 27, 2023 with 4 Comments

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Ferrari and Mercedes Express Concern Over McLaren's Rapid Rise in F1

Sep.26 - Two of F1's absolute top teams - Ferrari and Mercedes - admit to being "worried" about being left behind by the rapidly-improving McLaren outfit. Red Bull is utterly..

September 26, 2023 with 3 Comments

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Toyota's Grand Return: Japanese Giant Set to Rejoin F1 in 2024

Sep.24 - Wild new rumours at Suzuka suggest Toyota could be on the way back into Formula 1. McLaren stunned the Japanese GP paddock this weekend by announcing out of the blue that..

September 24, 2023 with 5 Comments

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Red Bull Eyes Lando Norris while McLaren Secures Piastri for the Long Haul

Sep.21 - McLaren CEO Zak Brown has pulled itself off the Formula 1 driver market for now. The Woking based team announced ahead of the Japanese GP that its newest recruit,..

September 21, 2023 with 2 Comments

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Tension Ignites: Lando Norris vs. Oscar Piastri - Is McLaren's Harmony at Risk?

Sep.6 - Relations between McLaren's two young drivers could get "a little more restless" in the coming months. That is the prediction of former F1 driver Timo Glock, after McLaren..

September 6, 2023 with 1 Comment

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Alex Palou: From F1 Hopeful to Indycar Champion – What's Next?

Sep.6 - Alex Palou admits he might never get the chance to switch to Formula 1. Now with his second Indycar title in his pocket, the 26-year-old Spaniard had appeared destined for..

September 6, 2023 with 0 Comments

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Marko Regrets: Norris Locked Out by F1 Contract as Perez Struggles Beside Verstappen

Sep.5 - Dr Helmut Marko admits it's 'unfortunate' that Lando Norris' McLaren contract has ruled him out of contention for a Red Bull seat for now. Marko, fellow Red Bull chief..

September 5, 2023 with 8 Comments

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Verstappen's Vision: Could Lando Norris Shift Gears to Join Red Bull?

Sep.2 - Momentum is continuing to build behind the idea that Lando Norris could become Max Verstappen's next teammate at Red Bull. The duo are friends, and world champion..

September 2, 2023 with 4 Comments

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