McLaren’s Greatest Hits Are Coming To Los Angeles

The display is named “The Color of Success: McLaren’s Papaya Livery,” focusing primarily on the periods when McLaren employed its famous orange paint. The exhibition will include some of the rarest early race cars from Can-Am, Formula 1, USAC, Formula 2, and Formula 5000.

Examples include the 1967 McLaren M6A, the first car to use the papaya livery. It was also developed in just 11 weeks and was the first car to start dominating the McLaren-era of Can-AM racing. On the modern side, there’s the 2018 MCL33 Formula 1 racer; the last car Fernando Alonso drove before retiring at the end of the 2018 season. As we now know, he would eventually return to the sport years later.

As a tribute to Alonso’s first exit from the sport, McLaren used a unique blue, yellow, and red livery in recognition of Alonso’s home region of Asturias, Spain.