On May 28, the Indy 500 will start for the 107th time at Indianapolis Oval Speedway and the Arrow McLaren team will field four cars, three of which will be painted differently.
Yesterday, ahead of the Long Beach IndyCar Series race, the team revealed cars from Pato O’Ward (#5), Felix Rosenquist (#6) and Alex Rossi (#7), inspired by three historic McLaren wins over the years back and forth in various race series. Three glorious achievements – victory in the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indy 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans – form the symbolic Triple Crown, which all racers and many teams dream of winning, but few succeed.
Car #5 is painted to commemorate the 1995 victory at the Sarte circuit by Yannick Dalmas, Mizanori Sekiya and Jay-Jay Lehto, who won the legendary overall marathon in a McLaren F1 GTR sports car powered by a 6-litre 12-litre cylinder BMW engine.
The design of car number 6 is reminiscent of what Alain Prosta’s MP4/2 looked like in 1984, in which the French racer won in Monaco. And the No. 7 Dallara-Chevrolet orange is painted in honor of Johnny Rutherford’s May 1974 Indianapolis victory in a McLaren M16C/D.
Zack Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing, was present at the presentation of the design of these three cars and said: “I am proud to present three commemorative colors in celebration of McLaren’s 60th anniversary and the historic achievement of the Triple Crown. The cars look incredibly cool and I can’t wait to see our guys take them to the track.”
For the first time in a week, because on April 20 and 21, on the eve of the Indy 500, open tests and training will start on the “old brick house”. By the way, after the first two stages of the season in the series, it is Arrow McLaren driver Pato O’Ward who leads the series.
Source: F1 News
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