What is "mclaren"

McLaren Racing Limited, competing as McLaren Honda, is a British Formula One team based at the McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey, England. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in and won the Indianapolis 500 and the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (Can-Am). The team is the second oldest active team after Ferrari. They are one of the most successful teams in Formula One history, having won 182 races, 12 drivers' championships and eight constructors' championships. The team is a wholly owned subsidiary of McLaren Technology Group.

Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix, but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, where they dominated from 1967 to 1971. Further American triumph followed, with Indianapolis 500 wins in McLaren cars for Mark Donohue in 1972 and Johnny Rutherford in 1974 and 1976. After Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in 1970, Teddy Mayer took over and led the team to their first Formula One constructors' championship in 1974, with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt winning the drivers' championship in 1974 and 1976, respectively; 1974 also marked the start of a long-standing sponsorship by Phillip Morris' Marlboro cigarette brand.

In 1981, McLaren merged with Ron Dennis' Project Four Racing; Dennis took over as team principal and shortly after organised a buyout of the original McLaren shareholders to take full control of the team. This began the team's most successful era: with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, and Ayrton Senna took between them seven drivers' championships and McLaren six constructors' championships. The combination of Prost and Senna was particularly dominant—together they won all but one race in 1988—but later their rivalry soured and Prost left for Ferrari. Fellow English team Williams offered the most consistent challenge during this period, the two winning every constructors' title between 1984 and 1994. However, by the mid-1990s, Honda had withdrawn from Formula One, Senna had moved to Williams, and the team went three seasons without a win. With Mercedes-Benz AMG engines, West sponsorship, and former Williams designer Adrian Newey, further championships came in 1998 and 1999 with driver Mika Häkkinen and during the 2000s the team were consistent front-runners, driver Lewis Hamilton taking their latest title in 2008.

Ron Dennis retired as McLaren team principal in 2009, handing the former role to longtime McLaren employee Martin Whitmarsh. At the end of 2013, after the team's worst season since 2004, Whitmarsh was ousted. McLaren announced in 2013 that they would be using Honda engines from 2015 onwards, replacing Mercedes-Benz AMG. The team raced as McLaren-Honda for the first time since 1992 at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix.

McLaren is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan McLaren (born 1971), Scottish footballer
• Andy McLaren (footballer, born 1922) (1922–1996), Scottish football player
• Andy McLaren (born 1973), Scottish football player
• Angus McLaren (born 1988), Australian actor
• Anne McLaren (1987–2007), British zoologist
• Bill McLaren (1923–2010), Scottish sports broadcaster
• Billy McLaren (born 1948), Scottish football player
• Brandon Jay McLaren (born 1980), Canadian actor
• Brian McLaren (born 1956), American Christian minister
• Bruce McLaren (1937–1970), New Zealand racing driver
• Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren (1950–1934), Scottish jurist and politician
• Charles Melville McLaren (1913–2003), British industrialist and horticulturalist
• Colin McLaren, Australian writer
• David McLaren (politician) (1872–1939), New Zealand politician
• Digby McLaren (1919–2004), Canadian geologist and palaeontologist
• Duncan McLaren (1800–1886), Scottish politician
• Dylan McLaren (born 1982), Australian football player
• Francis McLaren (1886–1917), British politician
• Frederick McLaren (1874–1952), English cricketer
• Geoff McLaren (1921–1992), Australian politician
• Gregory Paul McLaren ("Lucky Diamond Rich"; born 1971), Guinness World Record holder as "the world's most tattooed person"
• Henry Charles McLaren (born 1948), British peer
• Henry Duncan McLaren (1879–1953), British politician, horticulturalist and industrialist
• Hollis McLaren, Canadian actress
• James McLaren (born 1972), Scottish rugby player
• Jim McLaren (1897–1975), Scottish football player
• Jock McLaren ("Jock"; 1902–1956), Australian military officer
• John McLaren (disambiguation)
  • John McLaren, Lord McLaren (1831–1910), Scottish politician and judge
  • John McLaren (baseball) (born 1951), American baseball coach and manager
  • John McLaren (cricketer) (1886–1921), Australian cricketer
  • John McLaren (horticulturist) (1846–1943), American horticulturist
  • John McLaren (public servant) (1871–1958), Australian public servant
  • John F. McLaren, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh
  • John Francis McLaren (1919–1953), British military pilot
  • John Inglis McLaren, Canadian politician
• Kenneth McLaren (1860–1924), British military commander
• Kyle McLaren (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
• Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway (1854–1933), British women's rights activist
• Leah McLaren (born 1975), Canadian writer and columnist
• Malcolm McLaren (1946–2010), British music manager
• Martin McLaren (1914–1979), British military commander and politician
• Mick McLaren (born 1930), Rhodesian military commander
• Norman McLaren (1913–1987), Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director
• Paul McLaren (born 1976), English football player
• Peter McLaren (born 1948), Canadian educationist
• Robin McLaren (1934–2010), British diplomat
• Lady Rose McLaren (1919–2005), British aristocrat
• Ross McLaren (filmmaker) (born 1953), Canadian film director
• Ryan McLaren (born 1983), South African cricketer
• Samuel McLaren (1876–1916), Australian mathematician
• Scott McLaren (born 1968), Australian football referee
• Steve McLaren (born 1975), Canadian ice hockey player
• Stuart McLaren (born 1975), Scottish/Australian football player and coach
• Stuart McLaren (rugby union) (fl. 1902), Australian rugby union player
• Timothy McLaren (born 1956), Australian rower
• Tommy McLaren (1949–1978), Scottish football player
• Walter McLaren (1853–1912), British politician
• Wayne McLaren (1940–1992), American stuntman, model, actor, and rodeo performer
• William McLaren (disambiguation)
  • William McLaren (illustrator) (1923–1987), Scottish illustrator
  • William McLaren (footballer), Scottish football player
• Willie McLaren (born 1984), Scottish football player

McLaren is a Formula One racing team, part of the McLaren Group.

McLaren or MacLaren may also refer to:

• McLaren (surname)
• MacLaren (surname)
• Clan MacLaren, a Scottish clan