The Australian comes to McLaren with an impressive CV, having won both the Formula 3 and Formula 2 championships. I’m very excited to welcome our rookie Oscar Piastri to our F1 team. Our 2023 campaign is already well underway in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, while our NTT INDYCAR SERIES season starts on the same weekend we’re competing in the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix. Emma Gilmour became our first female driver, and it was great to see her achieve a podium. Last year, we established NEOM McLaren Electric Racing and entered Extreme E. Six decades on, McLaren has grown beyond recognition and in recent years, strategic investment - aligned with our commitment to sustainability and social responsibility - has taken this company into new racing spheres. Employee number three, Howden Ganley, and employee number eight, Ray ‘Tex’ Rowe, shared their memories of Bruce and revealed the passion of those early days that continues to exist in the many hundreds of personnel that work for us now. When we unveiled our latest challenger, the MCL60, to the world at the McLaren Technology Centre last month, we were honoured to have in attendance two of the original members of Bruce’s company. In addition, we’ll be demonstrating many of the greatest cars to have been built at McLaren over the past 60 years.

Throughout the course of this season, look out for a number of exciting moments to mark our historic anniversary as we pay tribute to the men and women, the drivers, engineers, and mechanics who helped guide our success. In 2023, as we celebrate 60 years of this great organisation, we plan to reflect on the amazing achievements along the way: 12 Drivers’ and eight Constructors’ World Championships in Formula 1, 183 Grand Prix wins, three victories at the Indianapolis 500 and winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans at our first attempt - not forgetting our incredible automotive heritage, creating the most pioneering road cars in the world.

Today, our aim is to continue the legacy that Bruce started and strive for future success on the race track. Under his inspirational guidance, McLaren quickly established this team as a leading light in motor racing with our iconic, papaya-liveried machines thrilling fans as they powered to victory in various categories around the world. From humble beginnings, the company, founded by the legendary Bruce McLaren in 1963, has grown to be one of the biggest and most successful outfits in the history of the sport. When the first McLaren racing car, the M1A, rolled out of our original Feltham workshop in west London, it set into motion an incredible journey that has spanned the past six decades of competition.

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