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INSIGHT: Why McLaren's all-in on electric racing

Roll back the clock to the late-1960s and early ’70s and on any given weekend you’d see a McLaren on-track, whether that was in Formula 1, IndyCar, sports car racing, or somewhere else. Fast-forward to the present day and the story is very much the same — but at the same time, hugely different. McLaren remains part of the furniture in F1. The brand is also back in IndyCar, but its racing activities have diversified substantially beyond that. A key component of that diversification is the founding of McLaren Electric Racing, an all-new company that encompasses McLaren’s second-year Extreme E effort, as well as its new Formula E program. The company can trace it’s roots back to...
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