The Woking-based team unveiled its new MCL36 at its factory on Friday, and the new Mercedes-powered car features more fluorescent orange and blue colours than it had in 2021.
The team said that the decision to tweak its traditional papaya was made as it wanted to do something special for F1’s new era, and it saw how well its Gulf-branded car went down with fans at last year’s Monaco Grand Prix.
The tweaked orange is the same, so-called Fluro Papaya orange that was raced at Monte Carlo, alongside what is officially called New Blue.
Speaking about the livery change, McLaren CEO Zak Brown said: “We’ve been evolving our livery since we’ve got back to papaya.
“We wanted something that was very vibrant and change the shade of our papayas.
“I think the livery changes that we did last year, both in Monaco and in Abu Dhabi, we had a lot of great fan reaction, and they liked to see a lot of energy.
“I think it’s got some nice speed and elegance to it, that we thought would go on…
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