Particle.news
Download on the App Store

McLaren Unveils Google Gemini Heritage Livery for British Grand Prix

The one-off chrome design links the team’s 1966 M2B roots to live AI tools that McLaren says are already being used at the track.

Overview

  • McLaren unveiled the one-off Google Gemini livery on Tuesday and will run it on Lando Norris’s and Oscar Piastri’s MCL40 cars at the British Grand Prix this weekend, 3–5 July.
  • The design draws directly from the team’s first F1 car, the 1966 M2B, and uses a predominantly chrome colour scheme intended as a heritage tribute that departs from McLaren’s usual papaya livery.
  • McLaren says Gemini Enterprise is embedded in current operations to build trackside tools that let engineers search and compare sporting regulations during a race.
  • The team is developing a natural-language interface to pull data from multiple systems at once for faster trackside answers, and Google says Gemini can turn complex datasets into real-time track intelligence.
  • McLaren and Google will show the livery to fans at a joint activation at the Truman Brewery in East London and the partnership, running since 2022, signals a push to blend fan marketing with AI-driven race support.