McLaren Archives - Daily Car Blog | The World's Best Original Carblog https://dailycarblog.com/tag/mclaren/ Car News | Car Reviews | New Cars | Car Culture Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:01:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dailycarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-DCB-BOX-LOGO-INSTAGRAM-32x32.jpg McLaren Archives - Daily Car Blog | The World's Best Original Carblog https://dailycarblog.com/tag/mclaren/ 32 32 Unlocking The Secrets of Formula One Brake Systems https://dailycarblog.com/2025/07/unlocking-the-secrets-of-formula-one-brake-systems/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:01:57 +0000 https://dailycarblog.com/?p=52166 Formula One–focused YouTube channel Driver61 explores the secrets behind F1 braking systems—and, as you’d expect from a high-performance sport, a single braking system can cost up to £100,000. Did you know that under heavy braking, an F1 brake can reach temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius—the same as molten lava? This video offers a fascinating look […]

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]]> Red Bull Racing F1 Accuses McLaren of Running Illegal Brake System https://dailycarblog.com/2024/07/red-bull-racing-f1-accuses-mclaren-of-running-illegal-brakes/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:19:57 +0000 https://dailycarblog.com/?p=49011 With nowhere to turn and nowhere to hide, their quest for a fourth consecutive championship looking increasingly uncertain as the competition finally begins to challenge them, Red Bull Racing F1 has resorted to bending the rule book rather than focusing solely on engineering solutions in an attempt to stall McLaren’s progress. The current World Championship […]

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]]> Heavily Upgraded McLaren 750S is The Marvel Anti Hero of Ultracars https://dailycarblog.com/2023/04/mclaren-750s-antihero-ultracar/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:17:08 +0000 https://dailycarblog.com/?p=44637 Short of introducing a completely new generation, the McLaren 750S is a heavily upgraded and revised successor to the 720S. New 750S becomes the lightest and most powerful series-production McLaren to date, it has a segment-leading power-to-weight ratio of 587PS-per-tonne (coupe, at lightest dry weight). Around 30% of components are new or changed, making 750S […]

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]]> Daniel Ricciardo is In A Drive To Survive His McLaren Contract https://dailycarblog.com/2022/05/daniel-ricciardos-drive-to-survive-mclaren-contract/ Tue, 31 May 2022 09:54:17 +0000 https://dailycarblog.com/?p=39727 Daniel Ricciardo’s time at McLaren is coming to an end, just as the former Red Bull driver enters his second season with the Surrey-based squad. Ricciardo struggled to adapt to the McLaren MCL35 despite winning the 2021 Italian Grand Prix, McLaren’s first win since 2012. Lando Norris marginally outperformed his venerated teammate last season and […]

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]]> This is The McLaren Elva Shield Special Edition https://dailycarblog.com/2021/05/the-mclaren-elva-shield-special-edition/ https://dailycarblog.com/2021/05/the-mclaren-elva-shield-special-edition/#respond Thu, 27 May 2021 15:14:25 +0000 https://staging.dailycarblog.com/?p=33624 The screenless Elva is McLaren Automotive’s lightest-ever road car and the target for the windscreen version is around 20kg heavier, even with the inclusion of electronically synchronised rain-sensing wipers, washer jets and sun visors, as well of course as the heated glass windscreen within a carbon fibre surround. The Active Air Management System (AAMS) is […]

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]]> https://dailycarblog.com/2021/05/the-mclaren-elva-shield-special-edition/feed/ 0 Vehicle Virgins is Selling His McLaren 600LT for A 765LT https://dailycarblog.com/2021/05/vehicle-virgins-is-selling-his-mclaren-600lt/ https://dailycarblog.com/2021/05/vehicle-virgins-is-selling-his-mclaren-600lt/#respond Thu, 06 May 2021 14:16:27 +0000 https://staging.dailycarblog.com/?p=33229 We didn’t even know there was a McLaren 765LT... what the wah? Anyway, now that we do know the world seems like a clearer place. It wasn’t so clear for Parker Nirenstrein, AKA vehicle Virgins who took some time off from YouTubing to concentrate on personal well-being. He alluded to some past issues, without going […]

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]]> https://dailycarblog.com/2021/05/vehicle-virgins-is-selling-his-mclaren-600lt/feed/ 0 McLaren Automotive Just Created The World’s Most Important Plastic Bucket https://dailycarblog.com/2020/08/mclaren-automotive-just-created-the-most-important-plastic-bucket/ https://dailycarblog.com/2020/08/mclaren-automotive-just-created-the-most-important-plastic-bucket/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:13:32 +0000 https://staging.dailycarblog.com/?p=29562 The term “plastic Bucket” used in the banner headlines above is a deliberate misnomer. It’s a slow news day folks. Anyway. The plastic bucket we are referring to is indeed made out of carbon fibre and represents a fundamental shift in McLaren’s all-new, light-weight vehicle architecture which will underpin the company’s next generation of electrified/hybrid […]

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]]> https://dailycarblog.com/2020/08/mclaren-automotive-just-created-the-most-important-plastic-bucket/feed/ 0 This McLaren 570S Derivative Will Cost £250,000 https://dailycarblog.com/2019/12/mclaren-620r-570s-derivative-revealed/ https://dailycarblog.com/2019/12/mclaren-620r-570s-derivative-revealed/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:45:16 +0000 https://staging.dailycarblog.com/?p=26255 McLaren is taking a leaf out the Porsche 911 handbook of how to extract as many model derivatives from one single model. Give the said model derivative a fixed-wing, new bumpers, diffusers and crucially a new name and ker-blamo, you have an “all-new” model. The McLaren 620R uses this ascribed formula for it is a […]

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]]> https://dailycarblog.com/2019/12/mclaren-620r-570s-derivative-revealed/feed/ 0 Is McLaren Profiting off Its History Rather Than Current Performances? https://dailycarblog.com/2019/10/petrobras-ends-sponsorship-of-mclaren/ https://dailycarblog.com/2019/10/petrobras-ends-sponsorship-of-mclaren/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:32:32 +0000 https://staging.dailycarblog.com/?p=25531 Yes, absolutely McLaren is using its race-winning pedigree and history to twist the arm of sponsors by convincing them to pay a premium. Yes, McLaren can justify a premium, but their winning ways is a long distant memory. The Brazilian state energy company, Petrobras, recently declared an early termination of their “unjustifiable” sponsorship deal with […]

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