How restoring old F1 cars helps McLaren manage its modern cost cap and staff burnout

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Alex Kalinauckas

Aug 22, 2023, 8:52 AM

With dozens of historic cars, design drawings and kit, McLaren’s Heritage department is a window into the iconic brand's long history of success. But it also serves a useful purpose when it comes to certain decisions around operating the current Formula 1 team - including navigating the cost cap

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The motorsport Triple Crown. It’s primarily a driver achievement, famously with Graham Hill the only one to have achieved it (in both Monaco Grand Prix or Formula 1 world championship format, for that matter). But, in 2023, McLaren has made it a team accolade too.

As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, the Woking squad adopted a special ‘Triple Crown’ livery for the Monaco and Spanish races. It split the colour scheme in three – each nodding towards the McLaren cars that have won the Monaco GP, Le Mans 24 Hours and the Indianapolis 500.

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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.