<span class="mclaren">McLAREN</span> Racing-Sustainability

Welcome to McLaren Racing’s sustainability hub.

At McLaren Racing, we believe that high performance and sustainability go hand in hand. Racing is about innovation, agility, and resilience - qualities that are just as crucial in our response to the global climate and social challenges we face today.

Our approach to sustainability is led by data and science - understanding our impacts across the themes of People and Planet - and using our unique capabilities and assets to make an impact within our business, within motorsport and beyond. Delivering more sustainable outcomes is a collective effort, and we are working with regulators, partners, series organisers and teams across our sport to drive systemic change.

We’re committed to driving a sustainable future for our sport.

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Sustainability

Themes

  • Our focus on Planet allows us to show the synergy between circular economy and decarbonisation, define how we manage our impacts on nature, and integrate our Climate Contribution Programme with our other goals.

    Circular economy

    Working towards a circular economy means minimising the resources we consume and the waste we produce, keeping resources in circulation for as long as possible. It also builds resilience into our supply chain and maximises the value of our materials and resources. In short, it’s doing more with less.

    Climate action

    Pace and performance are critical to combatting the climate crisis, now more than ever. We must act to both reduce global emissions to net-zero, accelerate climate solutions and build climate resilience into our ecosystem. We are keenly aware of the challenge and the opportunity ahead of us, and of the part that we must play.

    Nature

    At McLaren Racing, we are inspired by the precision, design and performance that comes from the natural world. Nature enhances the health and wellbeing of our people, it provides high quality materials that inspire innovation, and supports the communities we work and race in.

  •  Our People focus helped us clarify our ambitions for diversity, equity and inclusion, how this ties in with health and wellbeing to drive performance, and how we implement this internally whilst driving it forward in the broader motorsport industry with the support of our partners partners.

    Team diversity & inclusion

    Our target is for 40% of the team to come from underrepresented groups by 2030. For us, this includes women, people of different races and ethnicities, persons with disabilities, neurodivergence, the LGBTQ+ community, and those from various socio-economic backgrounds. In the US, we also include military veterans.

    Diverse motorsport

    As a leading voice for innovation and change, we influence the industry to promote and raise awareness of inclusion throughout the motorsport ecosystem. 

    We recognise that we cannot act alone. To drive long-term change in our business, we must address systemic barriers in motorsport. That’s why, in 2024, we worked with our partners to improve access to our sport.

    Wellbeing & employee experience

    Behind every victory are those in the garage and on the pit wall, those who design, produce, and build our cars, the teams who support our partnerships, our Finance team driving efficient spending of the cost cap, our People team who cultivate our culture, and many more.

The Great Barrier Reef Foundation
Partnership with McLAREN Racing

As part of our Climate Contribution Programme, McLaren Racing has partnered with The Great Barrier Reef Foundation: an Australian non-profit focused on scaling solutions that restore and enhance the resilience of coral reefs and ocean habitats.

In early 2024, Oscar and other key members of the Sustainability Team met with The Great Barrier Reef Foundation to see the work they are doing first hand.

Find out more about McLaren Racing's Climate Contribution Programme here.

Snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef with Oscar
Snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef with Oscar

“Sustainability needs to be at the heart of everything we do. Now more than ever”

Zak Brown
Zak Brown

CEO, McLaren Racing

Recent videos Sustainability

Sustainability documents

Sustainability Report 2024

The fourth annual sustainability report presents our achievements in 2024 and plans for 2025, while also being transparent about McLaren's economic, environmental and social impact.

Gender Pay Gap Report 2023/24

The gender pay gap is a measure of the difference between the average hourly earnings of men and women.