McLaren’s expanded eSports program includes mobile racing games

McLaren is enamored with eSports — so much so that it’s expanding the scope of its program. The 2018 edition of the Shadow Project promises to be more “open and inclusive” than you might expect, letting you compete for virtual motorsports glory not just with die-hard PC racing simulators like iRacing and rFactor 2, but […]

Watch McLaren’s stumble into the 2017 F1 season in new Amazon show

Enlarge / McLaren testing in Barcelona in the run up to the 2017 F1 season. The test did not go well… (credit: Sam Bloxham/LAT Images) Amazon Prime has returned to things four-wheeled with its latest original production. It’s not another Jeremy Clarkson spinoff, though; it’s a rare look at the inner workings of a Formula […]

McLaren’s Street-Legal GT4-Style 570S Is Awesome, and It’s Already Sold Out

– McLaren Special Operations, the customization division for McLaren’s road-car department, has just revealed another new product. This time, it’s a special-edition, GT4-inspired 570S created specifically for customers of McLaren Newport Beach, the company’s largest U.S. retailer. – The McLaren MSO X was commissioned as a bespoke project to emulate the look and feel of the […]

See the First Teaser Image for McLaren’s “Hyper GT,” But Forget about Buying One

– With the McLaren 720S now officially unveiled, the British supercar concern now can begin whetting the public’s appetite for what is presumably the next new model on the docket, the BP23. To that end, we have our first teaser image for the “hyper GT” (McLaren’s term) that will arrive in 2019 to finally replace […]

WADA admits McLaren’s ‘doping’ evidence against Russian athletes insufficient

WADA has admitted that Richard McLaren’s 2016 report on the alleged use of doping by Russian athletes is “not sufficient to bring successful cases,” the International Olympic Committee said. “At the recent meeting (21 February) held by WADA in Lausanne to ‘provide assistance to IFs [International Federations] regarding how to analyse and interpret the evidence,’ […]

McLaren’s next-gen Super Series will run the quarter mile in 10.3 seconds

The second-generation McLaren Super Series will depart from its predecessor in one major way. Since McLaren began producing cars in volume, every model it’s made has used some variation of the same 3.8-liter, twin-turbocharged V8. This engine has powered every modern McLaren, from the “entry-level” Sports Series models to the P1 hybrid hypercar. But it […]