McLaren confirms names of 2027 FIA Hypercar entrant and exclusive Project: Endurance track car
- The McLaren MCL-HY will be entered by the McLaren Hypercar Team in the 2027 World Endurance Championship (WEC), also marking McLaren’s return to the top class of racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans
- The MCL-HY GTR variant will enable clients to own and experience the pure exhilaration of a McLaren Racing FIA Hypercar and access a unique insight into the operations and adrenaline of a world class endurance racing programme
- Reveal of McLaren’s new Hypercar challenger will take place on May 4
McLaren Racing has revealed the name of the FIA Hypercar that will return the iconic motorsport team to the pinnacle of endurance racing. The McLaren MCL-HY will compete for overall honours in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 2027 in one of the most exciting eras of endurance racing.
Alongside its WEC and Le Mans programme, McLaren has also announced a track car variant and supporting track day programme that also provides exclusive access to the team’s return to sports car racing’s top class through the hyper-exclusive Project: Endurance.
The MCL-HY adopts McLaren Racing’s established Formula 1 naming convention, combining the ‘MCL’ prefix with the Hypercar designation ‘HY’ reinforcing the brand’s unified motorsport identity across the highest categories of motorsport and signalling its commitment to the highly successful WEC category.
For the MCL-HY GTR track car variant, McLaren Automotive has chosen a storied name for this unique proposition.
“The MCL‑HY GTR proudly continues a lineage that began with the McLaren F1 GTR’s outright Le Mans victory in 1995 and then continued with the McLaren P1 GTR™ and McLaren Senna GTR track cars. This badge stands for moments that define McLaren. With the MCL‑HY GTR, we are writing the next chapter for our most focused, authentic, and uncompromising track cars.”
Henrik Wilhelmsmeyer, Chief Commercial Officer, McLaren Automotive
This announcement precedes the full reveal on May 4 of both the 2027 race car and its track car counterpart, which have been developed through close collaboration between McLaren Racing and McLaren Automotive.
“Taking the McLaren name back to the pinnacle of sportscar racing is a huge milestone and it’s a proud time for everyone within McLaren Racing and McLaren Automotive to share the name of our new Hypercar that follows in the footsteps of an incredible lineage of McLaren racing cars. We are in a golden era of sportscar racing and the Hypercar category continues to be extremely successful, and our new car name shows respect to that. Our development MCL-HY will be revealed in its incredibly cool test livery ahead of our first rollout.”
James Barclay, Executive Director of McLaren Endurance Racing
