McLaren’s return to the team’s traditional colour of papaya orange for the 2018 F1 season comes appropriately on the 50th anniversary of its original introduction.
Returning to our iconic papaya orange and blue, the MCL33 will contest the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship, and marks the first time in McLaren’s 52-year history that it has run a car powered by Renault engines.
After last year’s wide-ranging raft of aerodynamic rule-changes (wider tyres, dorsal fins, sloped-back front and rear-wings), the biggest addition to the 2018 technical regulations is the adoption of the halo safety device. Its introduction has been somewhat controversial.