Melbourne’s Oscar Piastri has claimed his seventh victory of the 2025 season and his first-ever Grand Slam in Formula 1, capitalising on a late-race retirement from McLaren teammate Lando Norris to tighten his grip on the championship. Key Takeaways Key Background The win brings Piastri’s career total to nine Grand Prix victories, equalling the tally […]
The Melbourne-born McLaren star talks exclusively to Forbes Australia about preparing for the 2025 F1 season-opener in the city where his motorsport career began, and getting home for lunch with mum. In person, Oscar Piastri is just as cool, calm, and collected as he appears to be on television. The 23-year-old is poised and polite […]
McLaren has just unleashed all the details and images of its new ultimate supercar: the McLaren W1. With 1,258 horsepower, 988 pound-feet of torque, a 3,200-pound curb weight, and a 217 mph top speed, the W1 represents a new dimension in performance for both McLaren and the supercar segment. This level of McLaren supercar doesn’t happen […]
Set to arrive in 2024, the GTS is another rolling automotive sculpture from UK icon McLaren Automotive, which has coincidentally turned 60 years old and been scooped up by a concern in Bahrain. Now that the kids have left the compound, it’s probably time to upgrade your wheels from that Ferrari FF four-seat family truckster. […]
Barry Skolnick’s The Ikonick Collection is one of the most renowned car collections in the world, in case you didn’t know. With more than 125 supercars, hypercars and classic-grade vehicles, an Ikonick offering is bound to be something special. For the first time, two vehicles from the collection will be available to the public for […]
This year the brand is celebrating six decades of innovation and a new era of electrification. Sixty years ago, a relentless Kiwi engineer and race car driver had a dream: to start a Formula One racing team and build a Triple Crown-winning (Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500 and 24 Hours of Le Mans), race car […]
McLaren has unveiled its new supercar, the 750S. This latest mid-engine V8, rear-wheel-drive performance model replaces the exotic carmaker’s 720S, a benchmark-setting sports car in production from 2017 through the end of 2022. That’s a long run for any model in today’s highly-competitive supercar market, and as noted in our recent Farewell to the King story, the […]