McLaren MCL38 - Monaco Grand Prix 2024

McLaren Racing’s competitor for the 2024 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, the McLaren MCL38 seeks to build on the platform of its predecessor, the multiple podium-achieving MCL60. In the hands of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, in their sixth and second seasons with the team respectively, the MCL38 is set to surpass the total number of podiums and points achieved in 2023, having already won the Miami Grand Prix with Lando Norris at the wheel.

Following the extraordinary turnaround in fortunes during the 2023 season, after the team introduced a number of upgrades to the car, early development work on the MCL38 focused on improving aerodynamic efficiency, mechanical grip, and tyre performance. In the car's early races, it exhibited strong performance in medium- and high-speed corners and proved a significant improvement over the early-season MCL60. However, it also displayed a less competitive top speed, a more inefficient drag reduction system, and poorer performance in longer corners than its competitors at Red Bull and Ferrari. A raft of major upgrades was introduced in Miami to address these concerns which immediately worked wonders, allowing Lando Norris to take his maiden Formula 1 victory, and McLaren’s first success since Daniel Ricciardo three years prior.

Since that recent victory, Norris and Oscar Piastri have been consistently fighting for race victories and podiums, generating growing anticipation among Formula 1 fans that McLaren may be poised to challenge for their first championship title in 16 years.

These fine 1:8 scale models are of the McLaren MCL38 as raced by Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris to second and fourth positions in the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco at Circuit de Monaco on the 26th of May 2024. Both Norris’s #4 and Oscar Piastri’s #81 cars were adorned in a special Senna Tribute livery, commemorating the life of legendary Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, who raced for McLaren between 1988 to 1993, winning three Formula 1 World Championships and five Monaco Grand Prix. The vibrant colour scheme on the MCL38 was inspired by Ayrton Senna’s iconic race helmet, and was unveiled alongside the evocative Senna Sempre-livered McLaren Senna as part of an initiative commemorating Ayrton Senna’s racing brilliance, 30 years after his passing in 1994.

Piastri qualified second in the tight, twisting streets of Monaco, only losing out to home favourite Charles Leclerc by just 0.154 seconds. Norris qualified fourth, behind the other Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, just a further 0.118 seconds adrift. On an eventful first lap, contact between Piastri and Sainz saw the Spaniard go straight on in Sainte Devote due to a puncture. However, it was a heavy crash between the Red Bull of Sergio Pérez and the two Haas cars of Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg that saw the red flag waved, as debris was strewn across the circuit and the barriers required repairs. The race resumed with the original race order, giving Sainz a reprieve and pushing Norris back down to fourth. All the teams made their mandatory tyre swap during the red flag period, meaning it was race to the finish. The second getaway was much cleaner, and whilst the front four remained tight through the race, none of the top ten drivers were able to overtake each other for the first time in Formula 1 history. Piastri came home second to tie his career-best Grand Prix finish from Qatar 202, and for McLaren’s best result in Monaco since Lewis Hamilton won here in 2008. Norris earned some more valuable points, earning fourth position.

The McLaren MCL38 Monaco Grand Prix is limited to just 99 pieces per driver.

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This model is a part of the McLaren MCL38 Collection.

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