2023 Formula 1 Season Car Reveals: McLaren MCL60Formula 1

[Famine]

McLaren Racing - McLaren celebrates landmark anniversary with new driver line-up for MCL60

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri kick-start new chapter as McLaren Racing celebrates 60 years

www.mclaren.com

 

[TumeK5]

🥱

 

[Dennisch]

Blegh.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Bare 👏 Carbon 👏Fibre 👏is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 livery

 

[Veinz]

Looks dated already.

 

[PaMu1337]

Not a fan. Too much black, I don't really like the way the blue lines flow through it, and all Google related sponsoring is still an eye sore

 

[AshenGraey]

Everyone seems to be following a similar design patterns to the RED BULL car from last year.

 

[GingerBredMan]

In general blue & orange make a good combo. But there’s something about that particular blue and orange that doesn’t look great. The Google logos make it worse

 

[MatskiMonk]

Bare 👏 Carbon 👏Fibre 👏is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 livery

Think the Mercedes is going this way too, from what I've heard.

 

[Fezzik]

Not a looker, and not fast from the sounds of it

Stella said: "Normally you need to be totally happy to achieve your targets. While we are happy with the development in most areas (of the car), there are some areas we realised some strong directions a little late so have not necessarily been able to capitalise in the short term.

"That's why I talk about 'after the start of the season'. It is more relative to ourselves and that's why I talk about realism."

The Italian, who joined McLaren from Ferrari in 2015, said the parts he was talking about should arrive "we hope a couple of months into the season, hopefully less - this may coincide with race four, we will see how early we can get the project to land."

I have 'patience' for McLaren rebuild - Norris

Lando Norris says he has the "patience" to wait for McLaren to rebuild themselves into a championship-winning team in Formula 1.

www.bbc.com

 

[jjsahagun]

In general blue & orange make a good combo. But there’s something about that particular blue and orange that doesn’t look great. The Google logos make it worse

Needs less black, more blue

 

[Bram Turismo]

Lando needs to look for other places, McLaren isn't going anywhere. When was McLaren's last truly competitive season... 2012?

 

[Simmpa]

Mclaren is becoming the new Williams, Lando needs to abandon the ship as soon as possible

 

[Sum1s2pid]

Kind of want a rule where there's no bare carbon bodywork. 😕

 

[MagpieRacer]

Kind of want a rule where there's no bare carbon bodywork. 😕

Be thankful they didn't go ahead with the proposed minimum weight decrease. The new tyres for this year are heavier, there are new spec electronic boxes in the cars that have added weight. Given some teams struggled to make weight last season and had to shed livery, they've now effectively got to find another 1.5kg to shave off again, hence they've lost more livery to make that weight.

They were meant to go down to 796kg, I think had they done that we would have been identifying cars from their sponsors rather than their colours.

 

[TiMcF1]

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[Edax 76]

I know this is going against the grain, but I actually like the livery.

 

[TiMcF1]

Don't ever expect much for open wheel liveries, even so, not got a problem with the carbon as it's accompanied buy a second and third layer of colour. Heck the carbon could be covered with a black or white gloss and it would relatively change very little.

Still a lot better than having one single colour with sponsors on it, or a single stripe running from one end to another. Not saying there is anything wrong with the latter, but I can see that some effort has been put into this and I've seen people go mad for much less.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I was so annoyed how the official F1 channels compared the revealed livery with the initial 2022 livery, because by the end of the season, the McLaren had already lost almost all of its orange



What they revealed in 2022

Here it is at the end of the season in Brazil and Mexico

And what was revealed for 2023

 

[MagpieRacer]

I was so annoyed how the official F1 channels compared the revealed livery with the initial 2022 livery, because by the end of the season, the McLaren had already lost almost all of its orange



What they revealed in 2022

Here it is at the end of the season in Brazil and Mexico

And what was revealed for 2023

They're just comparing launch liveries. Like they've done with every team.

 

[m355y]

On the livery, I thought 2019-2021 were a thing of loveliness and now they've pretty much ruined it. For an example of a really good livery, see the Aston Martin that was launched on the same day. If it ain't broke, don't faff around with it.

 

[captbradders]

Another messy livery with a bunch of logos vomited all over the car. Some in colour, some in monochrome. It’s a mess.

A far cry from the Marlboro/West/Vodafone days.

 

[Touring Mars]

I still hate those wheels, and the rest of the livery is too busy.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

Mclaren is becoming the new Williams, Lando needs to abandon the ship as soon as possible

Nah, they still need a some two decades of boneheaded decisions to get to a Williams level.

 

[Tyrone B]

Mclaren is becoming the new Williams, Lando needs to abandon the ship as soon as possible

That's pretty hyperbolic. Plus, where would Lando go?

 

[Fezzik]

That's pretty hyperbolic. Plus, where would Lando go?

Red Bull - he's negotiated with them before.

 

[Liquid]

An absolute munter.

 

[Tyrone B]

Red Bull - he's negotiated with them before.

Not sure how well he'd do against Verstappen though.

 

[Veinz]

This design really does no favours to the shape of the car, it looks like a fat ass or something. This is my expert analysis, I felt the same about last years livery.

 

[Fezzik]

Early impressions are that it drives like it has a fat arse as well. Not good.