Dan Walmsley, Motorsport Director, McLaren Automotive.
The new McLaren Customer Racing social media feeds are the dedicated home for information and insight into McLaren Customer Racing teams campaigning in GT3 and GT4 championships around the world, at the same time building and increasing engagement with the global community of McLaren endurance racing fans. Followers of the channels will gain exclusive access to feature interviews with drivers; event previews; image galleries; circuit guides; insight on the cars and the teams and live on-event race content.
Deliveries of the new McLaren 720S GT3 to customer teams around the world are now well underway, following an intensive test programme throughout the 2018 season that saw the McLaren Customer Racing development team covering thousands of test kilometres in a variety of conditions at locations throughout Europe and the Middle East. The rigorous testing and preparation undertaken ahead of customers receiving the cars was captured on film and outlines some of the steps involved in McLaren Customer Racing designing, developing and delivering a truly competitive car for the GT3 grids around the world. The film can be viewed at https://youtu.be/mgLmwyPD6TU.
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About McLaren Automotive:
McLaren Automotive is a creator of luxury, high-performance sportscars and supercars.
Every vehicle is hand-assembled at the McLaren Production Centre (MPC) in Woking, Surrey, England.
Launched in 2010, the company is now the largest part of the McLaren Group.
The company has defined product families: Sports Series, Super Series, Ultimate Series and Motorsport which are retailed through over 80 retailers in more than 30 markets around the world.
McLaren is a pioneer that continuously pushes the boundaries. In 1981, it introduced lightweight and strong carbon fibre chassis into Formula 1 with the McLaren MP4/1. Then in 1993 it designed and built the McLaren F1 road car - the company has not built a car without a carbon fibre chassis since. As part of the Ultimate Series, McLaren was the first to deliver a hybrid hypercar, the McLaren P1™.
Announced at Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2018, the company’s Track25 business plan will see it invest £1.2billion in research and development to deliver 18 new cars or derivatives by the end of 2025.
In 2018, the company launched the 600LT and the first two cars of Track25, the McLaren Speedtail, the next Ultimate Series, and McLaren’s first ever Hyper-GT, and 720S Spider. It also opened a new £50m McLaren Composites Technology Centre in the Sheffield region in the North of England that will see it produce the next generation of lightweight carbon fibre ‘tubs’ that are at the heart of all McLaren cars.
2019 saw McLaren launch the 600LT Spider confirmed as the third car of Track25, with a new GT car announced and the previously-confirmed track-only Senna GTR unveiled.
To support the development, engineering and manufacture of its range of innovative sportscars and supercars, McLaren Automotive partners with world leading companies to provide specialist expertise, technology and solutions. These include Richard Mille, Pirelli, Dell Technologies, Ashurst, AkzoNobel and OnePlus.
McLaren Group:
The McLaren Group is a global leader in luxury automotive and technology and comprises three businesses: Automotive, Racing and Applied Technologies.
Further information:
Roger Ormisher
Head of Global and North American Communications | McLaren North America
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Paul Chadderton
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Hunter Skipworth
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