McLaren has revealed a chrome livery for this week’s British Grand Prix, with portions of the car that were previously pale blue changed to reflect the silver livery that was run between 2006 and 2014.
After changing the badge on its social media profile to chrome ahead of the launch, excitement quickly built over a return to the former look. But rather than go ‘all in’, the team elected to combine both past and present.
Asked why the team had elected against a fully changed look – considering how McLaren’s retro liveries were widely praised at the Indianapolis 500 – Brown said: “We want to keep our papaya identity.
“It’s very important to us that we do a nod to the past but also very much look to the future. There is also so many times you can change the livery to extremes – so, what we did in Monaco a couple of ye …