McLaren Racing Limited is a British motor racing group based at the McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey, England. McLaren is best referred to as a Formula One builder and likewise has a history of competing in American open wheel racing as both an entrant and a chassis builder, and has actually won the Canadian-American Difficulty Cup (Can-Am) cars racing champion. The team is the 2nd oldest active, and 2nd most effective Solution One group after Ferrari, having won 182 races, Chauffeurs' Champions and 8 Manufacturers' Championships. The group is an entirely owned subsidiary of the McLaren Group. Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix, however their greatest preliminary success was in Can-Am, which they dominated from 1967 to 1971. Additional American accomplishment followed, with Indianapolis 500 wins in McLaren cars for Mark Donohue in 1972 and Johnny Rutherford in 1974 and 1976. After Bruce McLaren passed away in a testing mishap in 1970, Teddy Mayer took control of and led the group to their first Solution One Constructors' Championship in 1974, with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt winning the Drivers' Championship in 1974 and 1976 respectively. The year 1974 also marked the start of a long-standing sponsorship by Phillip Morris' Marlboro cigarette brand.In 1981, McLaren combined with Ron Dennis' Project Four Racing; Dennis took control of as team principal and quickly after organised a buyout of the original McLaren investors to take full control of the group. This began the team's most effective era: with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, and Ayrton Senna took in between them seven Chauffeurs' Champions and the group took 6 Constructors' Championships. The combination of Prost and Senna was especially dominant-- together they won all but one race in 1988-- however later on their competition soured and Prost left for Ferrari. Fellow English group Williams provided the most constant challenge throughout this duration, the two winning every constructors' title between 1984 and 1994. However, by the mid-1990s, Honda had actually withdrawn from Formula One, Senna had transferred to Williams, and the group went 3 seasons without a win. With Mercedes-Benz engines, West sponsorship, and previous Williams designer Adrian Newey, more championships can be found in 1998 and 1999 with motorist Mika Häkkinen, and during the 2000s the group corresponded front-runners, motorist Lewis Hamilton taking their latest title in 2008. Ron Dennis retired as McLaren team principal in 2009, turning over to long period of time McLaren employee Martin Whitmarsh. However, at the end of 2013, after the team's worst season given that 2004, Whitmarsh was ousted. McLaren revealed in 2013 that they would be utilizing Honda engines from 2015 onwards, replacing Mercedes-Benz.
The team road legal race car raced as McLaren Honda for the very first time given that 1992 at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix. In September 2017, McLaren revealed they had actually agreed on an engine supply with Renault from 2018 to 2020. McLaren will return to utilize Mercedes-Benz engines from the 2021 season till a minimum of 2024. After initially returning to the Indianapolis 500 in 2017 as a partner to Andretti Autosport to run Fernando Alonso, McLaren announced in August 2019 that they would run in combination with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports beginning in 2020 to run the complete IndyCar Series, the combined entry being named Arrow McLaren SP. Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren. Bruce was a works driver for the British Solution One group Cooper with whom he had actually won 3 Grands Prix and come 2nd in the 1960 World Champion. Wanting to contend in the Australasian Tasman Series, Bruce approached his employers, but when group owner Charles Cooper demanded using 1.5-litre Formula One-specification engines instead of the 2.5-litre motors permitted by the Tasman rules, Bruce decided to establish his own group to run him and his potential Solution One colleague Timmy Mayer with customized Cooper cars.