{"id":671634,"date":"2026-05-15T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:39:10","slug":"mclaren-announces-major-intel-partnership-as-tech-giant-returns-to-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671634\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren announces major Intel partnership as tech giant returns to F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computing giant Intel is returning to Formula 1 after nearly 20 years with a new partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mclaren\/10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:McLaren;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;McLaren&quot;}\" class=\"link \">McLaren<\/a> Racing.<\/p>\n<p>The Woking outfit announced the new multi-year agreement this week with Intel joining as the official compute partner, providing Intel Xeon\u00a0and Intel Core Ultra processors to support McLaren&#8217;s workload.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In addition to returning to F1, Intel&#8217;s logos will feature on one Arrow\u00a0McLaren IndyCar entry during the 2026 Freedom 250 in Washington DC, before expanding to the legendary Indianapolis 500 from the 2027 season onwards.<\/p>\n<p>The tech firm will also become an official partner of the\u00a0McLaren F1 Sim Racing Team, with its branding placed on the on-stage simulator rigs for the F1 Sim Racing World Championship this month and a full virtual livery planned for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Performance in IndyCar and Formula 1 racing is driven by technology, and partnering with Intel strengthens our ability to innovate at scale,&#8221; McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Intel has already been an important part of our technology ecosystem, and their leadership in computing will play a critical role in how we design, build, and race our cars. We\u2019re excited to deepen this relationship even further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zak Brown, McLaren<img alt=\"Zak Brown, McLaren\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2c1c958d18f3472bbb718a54bbb231ec.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Zak Brown, McLaren<\/p>\n<p>Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan added: &#8220;Formula 1 racing and IndyCar are some of the ultimate proving grounds for high-performance computing. Intel is proud to be McLaren Racing\u2019s compute partner, and to be part of a team that thrives on precision, speed, and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together, Intel and McLaren will push the boundaries of what\u2019s possible, transforming data into competitive advantage at every turn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new partnership means that the\u00a0technology giant will return to F1 after nearly 20 years out of the championship, having previously been a partner of the BMW Sauber F1 team in the 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>To read more Motorsport.com articles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:visit our website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;visit our website&quot;}\" class=\"link \">visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Computing giant Intel is returning to Formula 1 after nearly 20 years with a new partnership with McLaren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,73296,577,1193,21631,247305,590,236016,82,9836],"class_list":["post-671634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-1-racing","tag-formula1","tag-indycar","tag-intel","tag-intel-xeon","tag-mclaren","tag-mclaren-f1","tag-sports","tag-zak-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}