{"id":469191,"date":"2026-02-09T21:13:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469191\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:13:48","slug":"mclaren-reveals-its-livery-for-f1-title-defence-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469191\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren reveals its livery for F1 title defence in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

McLaren has become the penultimate team to reveal its 2026 Formula 1 livery, ahead of the two Bahrain pre-season tests.<\/p>\n

The reigning world champion team first showcased renders of its 2026 car in a test livery on the Monday of the five-day Barcelona test, before its real car debuted on track two days later.<\/p>\n

Now McLaren has unveiled its actual 2026 livery during an event in Bahrain, where two three-day pre-season tests will take place – the first later this week – ahead of the Melbourne season opener in early March.<\/p>\n

The livery was presented in a garage at the Bahrain International Circuit.<\/p>\n

That design is broadly the same as what McLaren has run in recent years, albeit with what appears to be a greater amount of papaya and a slightly revised black pattern on the engine cover.<\/p>\n

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McLaren had a steady start to 2026, with only Audi, Cadillac and Aston Martin completing fewer laps of the 10 teams at Barcelona.<\/p>\n

It completed 287 laps compared to the 500 laps achieved by engine supplier Mercedes, which has “raised the bar”, according to McLaren team principal Andrea Stella.<\/p>\n

McLaren’s fastest lap at Barcelona was within two and a half tenths of Lewis Hamilton’s test benchmark, but the upcoming Bahrain test is expected to give a more accurate indication of the 2026 pecking order.<\/p>\n

Monday’s MCL40 livery reveal means Aston Martin is the only team that is yet to show its 2026 design.<\/p>\n

The livery of the striking, Adrian Newey-designed AMR26 that broke cover during the Barcelona test is due to be unveiled on Monday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren has become the penultimate team to reveal its 2026 Formula 1 livery, ahead of the two Bahrain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-469191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}