2026 McLaren Mastercard F1 Team

[WardenOfTheNorth]

I don't like the helmets....

https://storage.ghost.io/c/dd/af/ddafbd ... _6100.jpeg

https://www.the-race.com/extra/norris-a ... t-designs/

It's a shame LEGO helmets are these one offs instead of regular ones. At least Lando's is halfway his normal one.

Absolutely agree. Was planning on collecting all of the F1 helmets, but really don't know whether I want these or not....

[WardenOfTheNorth]

Wait, is the car chrome??? Just watching F1Unchained upgrades video and he showed an image on the McLaren side pod and it looked chrome....

[Holm86]

Wait, is the car chrome??? Just watching F1Unchained upgrades video and he showed an image on the McLaren side pod and it looked chrome....

I think the orange is a very reflective orange, might look a bit like chrome in bright sun?

EDIT:
Right, the dark parts looks like a dark chrome

[WardenOfTheNorth]

Wait, is the car chrome??? Just watching F1Unchained upgrades video and he showed an image on the McLaren side pod and it looked chrome....

I think the orange is a very reflective orange, might look a bit like chrome in bright sun?

EDIT:
Right, the dark parts looks like a dark chrome
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ5pozzX0AA ... name=large

Yeah, that's the one.

Damn. Dark chrome and papaya chrome.... WHY OH WHY can't those be their standard colours???

[Holm86]

Wait, is the car chrome??? Just watching F1Unchained upgrades video and he showed an image on the McLaren side pod and it looked chrome....

I think the orange is a very reflective orange, might look a bit like chrome in bright sun?

EDIT:
Right, the dark parts looks like a dark chrome
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJ5pozzX0AA ... name=large

Yeah, that's the one.

Damn. Dark chrome and papaya chrome.... WHY OH WHY can't those be their standard colours???

Yeah, it's definitely better than the regular livery, much better. Don't know why their studio photos of it didn't do the colours proper justice

[FittingMechanics]

Rob Marshall in the McLaren Live app commented that they will test the Canada wing on one of the cars in FP1, at least one run, probably not beyond that as they want to develop it further.

[Slahinki]

The livery looks so much better in reality than on the renders. Why show off renders that don't actually show what the livery will look like...

[FittingMechanics]

The livery looks so much better in reality than on the renders. Why show off renders that don't actually show what the livery will look like...

Agreed.

I thought the car is flat black with orange when in reality it is "chrome black" with orange. I think it would look better if they had bigger blocs of each color instead of small ones.

[Macklaren]

agreed on the dark chrome. It looks much better than the plain black on the regular livery

[Darth-Piekus]

How's the team performing at FP1? I'm at work without any livefeed.

[FittingMechanics]

How's the team performing at FP1? I'm at work without any livefeed.

Currently NOR P5 and PIA P7, but about 1s off the Leclerc pace.

It doesn't seem that anyone is really pushing at the moment. Very hard to tell so far.

[FittingMechanics]

Now Norris was sliding, car nervous.

[Darth-Piekus]

Is the car struggling at the slow turns of Monaco or the team isn't still pushing and it's still early to claim pecking order?

[Macklaren]

Is the car struggling at the slow turns of Monaco or the team isn't still pushing and it's still early to claim pecking order?

combo of diff run plans for everyone and team not pushing. ANT put on new mediums and flew to the top of the times. NOR put on new mediums the same lap and was 4.5 s off the pace on his first lap, did multiple warm up laps, had a lurid slide on a push lap and then the red flag

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Norris brushed the wall on his last attempt, so was certainly pushing, despite being 1s off the pace