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McLaren
McLaren Racing Limited ( ) is a British auto racing, motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England. The team is a subsidiary of the McLaren Group, which owns a majority of the team. McLaren is best known as a Formula One chassis List of Formula One constructors, constructor, the second-oldest active team and the second-most successful Formula One team after Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari, having won races, 12 Formula One Drivers' Championship, Drivers' Championships, and nine Formula One constructors' championship, Constructors' Championships. McLaren also has a history in American open wheel racing as both an entrant and a chassis constructor, and has won the Can-Am, Canadian-American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) sports car racing championship. McLaren is one of only three constructors, and the only team, to complete the Triple Crown of Motorsport#Teams and manufacturers, Triple Crown of Motorsport (wins at the Indianapolis 500, 24 Hours of Le Mans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce McLaren
Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand racing driver, automotive designer, engineer and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from to . McLaren was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in with Cooper Car Company, Cooper, and won four Formula One Grands Prix, Grands Prix across 13 seasons. In endurance racing (motorsport), endurance racing, McLaren won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in with Ford Performance, Ford. He founded McLaren in 1963, who have since won nine Formula One World Constructors' Championship titles and remain the only team to have completed the Triple Crown of Motorsport. Born and raised in Auckland, McLaren initially studied engineering at the University of Auckland before dropping out to focus on his motor racing career. Having entered his first hillclimbing event aged 14, he progressed to Formula Two in 1957, winning the New Zealand Championship the following year. His performance at the New Zealan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lando Norris
Lando Norris (; born 13 November 1999) is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Norris was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in with McLaren, and has won Formula One Grands Prix, Grands Prix across seven seasons. Born in Bristol and raised in Glastonbury to an English father and Belgian mother, Norris began competitive kart racing aged seven. After a successful karting career—culminating in his victory at the KF1, direct-drive Karting World Championship in 2014—Norris graduated to junior formulae. He won his first title at the 2015 MSA Formula Championship with Carlin Motorsport, Carlin. He then won the 2016 Toyota Racing Series, Toyota Racing Series, 2016 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Formula Renault Eurocup and 2016 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Formula Renault NEC in 2016, receiving the Autosport BRDC Award that year. Norris won the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in , and finished runner-up to George Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McLaren Group
McLaren Group Limited ( ) is a British holding company based in Woking, England, which is involved in Formula One and other motorsport and the manufacture of sports cars. 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 announced that Dennis had sold his 25% shareholding in the company to the other shareholders, in addition to his shares in McLaren Automotive. The group then merged with McLaren Automotive to form a new company using the previous McLaren Group name. History Bruce McLaren started Bruce McLaren Motor Racing in 1963 and the team first entered Formula One in 1966. Teddy Mayer took over direction of the group following McLaren's death while testing a Can-am series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pato O'Ward
Patricio "Pato" O'Ward Junco (born 6 May 1999) is a Mexican professional auto racing driver who competes full-time in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Arrow McLaren. He is the 2018 Indy Lights champion. He is signed to the McLaren Driver Development Programme and is currently McLaren's reserve driver for their McLaren, Formula One team. Early life and career O'Ward was born in Monterrey, Mexico to Patricio O'Ward and Elba Junco. He attended high school in San Antonio, Texas, US. He explained on an episode of ''The Marshall Pruett Podcast'' that his surname comes from his Irish great-grandfather, adding that he considers himself "full-blown Mexicans, Mexican". O'Ward began his racing career in karting at the end of 2005 and remained in karting until 2012. During 2013, he competed in open-wheel racing, in LATAM Challenge Series, Latam Fórmula 2000, Formula Renault, Formula Renault 1.6 NEC and Pacific F2000. In 2014, O'Ward competed in French F4 Championship. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Piastri
Oscar Jack Piastri ( ; born 6 April 2001) is an Australian racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Piastri has won Formula One Grands Prix across three seasons. Born and raised in Melbourne, Piastri began his career in radio-controlled car, radio-controlled racing before moving into karting aged nine. Graduating to junior formulae in 2016, Piastri won his first championship at the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup with R-ace GP. He then won both the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship, 2020 FIA Formula 3 and 2021 Formula 2 Championship, 2021 FIA Formula 2 Championships back-to-back with Prema Racing, Prema, becoming the sixth driver in history to win the GP2 Series, GP2/FIA Formula 2 Championship, Formula 2 title in their rookie season. Piastri is the only driver in history to win Formula Renault, Formula Three, and Formula Two—or equivalent—championships in successive seasons. A member of the Alpine Academy from 2020 to 2022, Piastri signed with McLaren in to partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McLaren MCL39
The McLaren MCL39 is a Formula One car constructed by McLaren and designed under the direction of Rob Marshall (motorsport), Rob Marshall to compete in the 2025 Formula One World Championship. It is being driven by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, in their seventh and third seasons with the team respectively. The MCL39 follows the World Constructors' Championship-winning McLaren MCL38, MCL38. Favoured by commentators to defend McLaren's title, the MCL39 has won Formula One Grands Prix, Grands Prix, Piastri having won and Norris . The car has also scored pole positions, set fastest laps, and finished on the podium a total of times. Background Development context The MCL39 follows the McLaren MCL38, MCL38, McLaren's first championship-winning Formula One car since 1998. Having won the Constructors' Championship in 2024, McLaren will be allowed only 70% the allocation of wind tunnel testing time baseline. Team principal Andrea Stella (engineer), Andrea Stella said he beli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McLaren Technology Centre
The McLaren Technology Centre is the headquarters of the McLaren Group and its subsidiaries, located on a site in Woking, Surrey, England. 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 main building is a large, roughly semi-circular, glass-walled building, designed by architect Norman Foster and his company, Foster + Partners. The building was short-listed for the 2005 Stirling Prize, which was won by the Scottish Parliament building. By 2015, approximately 1,500 people worked at the Technology Centre. The Technology Centre also serves as the home to McLaren Racing, McLaren Automotive, and other companies of the McLaren Group. It was also the main setting of McLaren's cartoon, ''Tooned''. In 2011, the size of the centre was doubled after a second building, the McLaren Production Centre, was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honda In Formula One
The Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda has participated in Formula One, as an engine manufacturer and team owner, for various periods since 1964. They have been active as engine manufacturers since , producing the Honda V6 hybrid Formula One power unit, RA Series Hybrid power units which power Red Bull Racing and its sister team Racing Bulls. Honda's involvement in Formula One began as a full team and engine entry in the season, and in 1965 they achieved their first victory at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix, Mexican Grand Prix. After further success with John Surtees, Honda withdrew at the end of the season due to difficulties selling road cars in the United States and Honda driver Jo Schlesser's fatal accident. Honda returned in as an engine manufacturer, which started a very successful period for the company. After winning races in and , Honda won the Constructors' Championship every year between and with Williams Grand Prix Engineering, Williams and McLaren, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zak Brown
Zakary Challen Brown (born November 7, 1971) is an American motorsports executive, currently serving as the chief executive officer of McLaren Racing. Born and raised in California, Brown raced professionally around the world for ten years before focusing on motorsport's business and commercial worlds. Brown co-founded and co-owns United Autosports, a professional team competing in international sportscar racing and various historic racing events around the world. Through United, he co-owns Supercars Championship team Walkinshaw Andretti United alongside Michael Andretti and Ryan Walkinshaw, as well as Extreme E's Andretti Autosport, Andretti United XE and McLaren XE. He was the non-executive chairman of Motorsport Network, a global market-leading motorsport and automotive digital platform, between 2016 and 2019. Brown has been recognised by a range of industry bodies and publications, including the ''Paddock Magazine'' F1 Power List and his induction into the ''Sports Business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Techniques D'Avant Garde
TAG Group (Holdings) S.A. is a private holding company based in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. The name 'TAG' is an acronym of Techniques d'Avant Garde. The company generates revenue through its various subsidiaries that offer products and services in the business aviation, motorsports, hospitality, consumer products and real estate industries. History TAG was formed in 1977 by Syrian businessman Akram Ojjeh and was, until his death, led by Chief Executive Officer Mansour Ojjeh, the son of the founder. One of the first contracts obtained by TAG (Al Mansour, Ets. Akkram Ojjeh, dept. Housing TAG) came from the Saudi Government (presumably for the Royal Saudi Air Force) for works on airports in Riyadh, Tabuk and Khamis Musheit (Abha) (IATA: RUH, TUU and ABH) starting in 1977. A lot of works were subcontracted to the Belgian company CFE S.A., located in Brussels, who leased a Boeing 707 from Sabena Airlines (callsign OO-SJH, mixed cargo/pax) to transport personnel and materials to/from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
