{"id":708055,"date":"2026-06-01T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708055\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:30:10","slug":"mclaren-to-join-ferrari-as-only-formula-1-teams-to-make-1000-grand-prix-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708055\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren to join Ferrari as only Formula 1 teams to make 1,000 grand prix starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce McLaren, in a \u20601964 eulogy for late friend and fellow driver Timmy Mayer, \u2060said \u201clife is measured in achievement, not in years alone\u201d and more than 60 years later, his team are still living by the maxim.<\/p>\n

Founded by the late New Zealander with barely a handful of employees, McLaren celebrate their 1,000th Formula 1 start in Monaco this weekend as only the second outfit after Ferrari to reach such a mighty milestone.<\/p>\n

They stand alone in getting there as champions.<\/p>\n

In terms of achievement, McLaren are the second most successful \u200cFormula 1 team of all time with 203 grand prix victories since the first in 1968.<\/p>\n

They have won 10 constructors\u2019 championships and 13 drivers\u2019 titles since Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi took the first in 1974, with Britain\u2019s Lando Norris the latest in 2025.<\/p>\n

\"LandoLando Norris won the drivers\u2019 title last year after finishing third in Abu Dhabi. Photo: dpa<\/p>\n

Ferrari, competing since the start of the championship in 1950, reached the 1,000-race milestone at their home Mugello circuit in 2020 and have 16 constructors\u2019 titles and 15 drivers\u2019 crowns with 247 wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce McLaren, in a \u20601964 eulogy for late friend and fellow driver Timmy Mayer, \u2060said \u201clife is measured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[40760,13273,64,63,40761,282777,49718,826,837,109455,1737,823,913,46753,927,806,805,803,804,2103,85,9657],"class_list":["post-708055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alain-prost","tag-andrea-stella","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ayrton-senna","tag-bruce-mclaren","tag-emerson-fittipaldi","tag-ferrari","tag-fia","tag-james-hunt","tag-lando-norris","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mclaren","tag-mika-hakkinen","tag-monaco","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-ron-dennis","tag-sports","tag-zak-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708055","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=708055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}