2023 McLaren Formula 1 Car (MCL60)

The MCL60 was the McLaren F1 team's 2023 challenger — its name marking 60 years since Bruce McLaren founded the team in 1963. It was launched in February 2023 in Woking and immediately became the slowest McLaren in years: at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, neither car finished in the points, and team principal Andrea Stella publicly called the start of the season 'a regression'. LEGO® 76919 models the late-season version of this car — see Brickset 76919 for the bricks-level livery match.

McLaren's recovery began at the Austrian Grand Prix in July with what the team called its 'first major upgrade package': new sidepods derived from the Red Bull RB19 concept, redesigned floor edges, a new front-wing endplate, and a revised diffuser. From that race forward Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri scored regularly in the top six; Norris took eight podiums in the second half of the season. The team finished the year fourth in the constructors' championship — a 144-point swing from where the early-season pace would have predicted.

The MCL60 also marked Oscar Piastri's debut F1 season, after his contractual battle with Alpine in late 2022 was resolved in his favour by the Contract Recognition Board. Piastri scored a sprint win at the Qatar Grand Prix and finished ninth in the drivers' championship. The MCL60's Mercedes-AMG F1 M14 power unit, like every Mercedes-customer engine of the regulation era, was carried through unchanged from 2022.