McLaren has announced that the team’s 2025 Formula 1 car will be called the MCL39, upholding the naming tradition that has been in place under Zak Brown’s tenure.
The Woking-based squad’s F1 creations have all contained the MCL code since Brown’s appointment as McLaren Racing CEO in mid-2016, starting with the MCL32.
Despite the change in alphabetical nomenclature, McLaren elected to preserve the original numbering sequence that Ron Dennis had implemented during the 1980s.
There was a disruption to that arrangement in 2023 when McLaren’s car was titled the MCL60 to commemorate 60 years since the late Bruce McLaren founded the team.
McLaren proceeded to miss out the MCL37 when reverting to its original naming convention last season, unveiling the team’s 2024 challenger to the world as the MCL38.
The MCL38, sporting the papaya colour revived in 2017, would go on to be regarded as the benchmark package as McLaren clinched the Constructors’ Championship.
The success brought an end to McLaren’s extensive title drought since 2008 and was the first time since 1998 that the side were heralded F1 Constructors’ Champions.
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, now both multiple-time race winners, will again represent the team in 2025 as McLaren bids to achieve a coveted championship double.
McLaren will be present alongside the other nine teams to unveil the livery that it will run this season at the F1 75 season launch event at the O2 in London on February 18.
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