McLaren becomes first F1 team to reveal 2025 car design, with enforced camouflage livery

McLaren has revealed its MCL39 Formulation 1 automobile at a Silverstone season launch occasion – changing into the primary staff to indicate off a 2025 design, albeit with momentary restrictions on its livery.

As all 10 teams are committed to only fully revealing their 2025 liveries at the F1 75 Live event at London’s O2 arena on Tuesday, McLaren can at this stage solely showcase the MCL39 in a particular one-off camouflage color scheme.

This makes use of the staff’s conventional papaya orange company color organized in a geometrical print design together with black swathes.

Williams is holding its 2025 season launch on the similar venue on Friday and also will be certain by the momentary livery restrictions when it reveals the FW47.

McLaren, the 2024 F1 constructors’ champion squad, is holding a filming day at Silverstone on Thursday, with drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in attendance.

Photographs revealed by the Woking-based staff present the MCL39 retains a few of the key parts pursued throughout McLaren’s earlier designs, and continues with the pull-rod entrance suspension format.

Different key variations to the MCL38 appear to have an effect on the bodywork across the engine cowl, with a visible distinction in its extra ovoid air consumption.

McLaren Racing CEO, Zak Brown, mentioned Thursday’s occasion “is an enormous milestone in our journey within the battle for the 2025 title”.

He added: “It’s nice to get our championship challenger, the MCL39, on monitor for the primary time and to launch the end result of the staff’s exhausting work.

“We have to be lifelike that each staff may have made progress over the winter. Final 12 months highlighted simply how a lot the grid has closed up, which is an excellent factor for the game.

“We imagine we’ve got made additional steps ahead because the championship-winning MCL38 however we gained’t know the place we sit within the standings till we get into qualifying in Australia [2025’s first race].”

McLaren staff principal Andrea Stella commented: “While we completed final 12 months as champions, 2024 highlighted how extremely aggressive the grid is, which is one thing that can carry by to this 12 months’s championship. 

McLaren MCL39

Photograph by: McLaren

“We subsequently should preserve centered to compete on the entrance on this tight area. It’s going to be an thrilling however extremely difficult 12 months forward.

“The staff have labored extraordinarily exhausting to arrange as finest as potential for the beginning of the season.

“We discovered loads from our battles final 12 months, so we take this and use it to push our purpose for the 12 months.”

Norris feels the camo livery “is a enjoyable one and it’s nice to have the ability to showcase one thing completely different forward of our full livery reveal on the official F1 75 launch”, whereas Piastri mentioned, “it’s nice to get behind the wheel of the MCL39 for the primary time forward of us placing it by its paces in Bahrain”.

McLaren, the 2024 F1 constructors’ champion squad, is holding a filming day at Silverstone on Thursday, with drivers Norris and Piastri in attendance.

Each drivers will pattern the MCL39 on Thursday, with Norris driving first.

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL39

Photograph by: McLaren

Stella, Norris and Piastri are additionally set to face the media throughout Thursday’s promotional occasion.

Whereas McLaren clinched its first constructors’ championship in 26 years final season, its look forward to a primary drivers’ crown since 2008 continues as Norris misplaced a long-shot battle with Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen in 2024.

In what is predicted to be a multi-team scrap for each titles in 2025, McLaren has an opportunity to seal its first championship double since Mika Hakkinen led it to each accolades in 1998.