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Mechanics push McLaren driver Lando Norris\u2019 car back into the team garage during the first free practice ahead of the British F1 Grand Prix, in Silverstone, England, Friday, July 3, 2026. (AP Photo\/Darko Bandic)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

SILVERSTONE, England \u2014 You might need to look twice to spot the McLarens at Silverstone.<\/p>

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Instead of their usual luminous \u201cpapaya\u201d orange, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri\u2019s cars are white with a green stripe in a throwback livery for this week\u2019s British Grand Prix<\/a> .<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a design copied from the first McLaren Formula 1<\/a> car, the M2B of 1966, in a year when the team marks its 1,000th race. However, the colors first belonged to a team which never actually existed.<\/p>\n

Almost 60 years before Brad Pitt suited up in black and gold for APX GP in the \u201cF1\u201d movie<\/a> , James Garner starred in 1966\u2019s \u201cGrand Prix\u201d as Pete Aron, a driver for the fictional Japanese team Yamura.<\/p>\n

In a pioneering crossover between F1 and Hollywood, the fledgling McLaren team painted its cars in Yamura\u2019s colors so that driver and team founder Bruce McLaren could be Garner\u2019s double.<\/p>\n

The movie was famed for its raw on-track action footage, with the McLaren prominently featured, and it won three Oscars for its cutting-edge editing and sound.<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s special because it\u2019s Bruce\u2019s first car. So it feels more like just an honor that we get to relive this, bring it back to life, and also showcase it, because not many people know that the first car Bruce had was the white, green and grey,\u201d Norris said Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just cool that I\u2019m one of the drivers that gets to relive that and throw it back to the beginning of the McLaren story, which is something very special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in 1966, a movie-inspired livery was ground-breaking. A sponsored livery wouldn\u2019t appear on a car in an F1 world championship race until the 1968 season.<\/p>\n

Most teams raced in designated national colors such as red for Italian teams like Ferrari, \u201cBritish Racing Green\u201d, or blue for France. Since Bruce McLaren was a New Zealander, his team might have been expected to use green, black and silver.<\/p>\n

F1\u2019s newest team has a special appearance this weekend, too. Cadillac has a red, white and blue look \u2014 with a matching American flag helmet for Valtteri Bottas \u2014 to mark July 4 and the 250th anniversary<\/a> of U.S. independence from Britain.<\/p>

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AP auto racing: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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