Everyone knew it. It just needed to wait for confirmation. And it arrived this Thursday, April 10. McLaren announced that the brand will be returning to the top category of endurance racing, the Hypercar. The Woking team will arrive in 2027 with its car.<\/p>\n
\u00ab We are back \u00bb,” simply stated Zak Brown, McLaren’s director. \u00ab We are back in the World Endurance Championship. We will race to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We will join the Hypercar category. We are excited. Thirty years ago, we won on our Le Mans debut in a car we weren’t supposed to race. \u00bb<\/p>\n
The American is referring here to the McLaren F1 GTR, which prevailed in Le Mans, even over the prototypes, taking advantage of the adverse weather conditions to stand out.<\/p>\n
With a victory at the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix, McLaren is among the few teams to have claimed the triple crown, this fictitious trophy highlights the victory of the same entity in these three legendary races. This statistic has also inspired Zak Brown, who hopes to achieve it again with three successes in the same year.<\/p>\n
\nExcited that McLaren Racing will return to one of the world’s most challenging global racing series, the @FIAWEC<\/a> from 2027 onwards. <\/p>\n
Le Mans 1995 is where we secured a legendary win at the first attempt, and I can’t wait for the team to make history once again. <\/p>\n
We’re back!\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/4ehmsvlDbu<\/a><\/p>\n