In 2021, McLaren will rekindle its relationship with Mercedes after a six-year intermission, following three disastrous years with Honda before an upturn in fortunes with Renault - which resulted in fourth in last year's constructors' championship.
But the team's decision to cast away from Renault next year will bring it into a second stint of the famous McLaren-Mercedes partnership - one which lasted 20 seasons in Formula 1 and yielded its most recent taste of championship-winning success back in 2008.
A quarter of a century ago, McLaren had endured a couple of lean years having ruled the late 1980s and the first part of the '90s with an iron fist. But its grip on the championship was prised apart by the technological prowess of Williams, while Honda departed from F1 at the end of 1992 after McLaren had failed to win a title for the first time since 1987.