Iconic red and white livery
The liveries of McLaren
Think of an iconic McLaren and you’ll invariably think of a racing car painted red and white. Or silver. Or orange – our ‘traditional’ livery.
Except that our first F1 car was painted white. And green. Confused? Don’t be? Once the team found its feet, it adopted the famous papaya orange livery to make the cars distinctive on early black and white TVs. The eye-ball-searing Rocket Red, which first appeared in 1975, was another method of maximising TV coverage, and its remained to this day, even when the cars switched to silver (1997), reflective (2006) and, finally, ‘anthracite grey’, in 2015.
The MP4/4
The 1988 MP4/4 won 15 of 16 races and scored 199 points in the constructors’ championship, almost three times as much as runners-up Ferrari.
The 1988 Monaco Grand Prix
Ayrton Senna's iconic qualifying lap in the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix will be forever remembered as one of the greatest laps in Formula 1 history.
The pranks of Gerhard Berger
Frogs, passport photos and helicopter jokes
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