McLaren Is Milking Its Le Mans History Again. But We’re Here for It

Thirty years ago, McLaren won Le Mans on its debut, with JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas, and Masanori Sekiya piloting an F1 GTR to victory ahead of heavily favored protoypes. It helped seal the legend of the F1, and made McLaren the only constructor to win motorsport’s triple crown, with victories at Le Mans, Monaco, and Indy. To commemorate, McLaren has created the 750S Le Mans, which has all kinds of neat details that reference the F1 GTR.

McLaren will build 50 examples, each in one of two color options. The Le Mans Gray references the livery of the Uneo Clinic-sponsored car that won, while the McLaren Orange is painted in the company’s traditional racing color. The car features a new High-Downforce Kit (HDK), which consists of a much larger splitter and a carbon-fiber wing out back. You also get roof scoop, and amazing five-spoke “LM” wheels that nod to the OZ Racing wheels used on the first F1 GTR race cars. The wheel center caps are red on one side of the car, and blue on the other, which is another race-car detail.

If you opt for the track brake upgrade kit, you get calipers in an anodized gold, like the Brembos on the original race car. Inside you can get black or gray trim with two different bucket seat options. The five-point harnesses are also blue, again, just like the GTR’s, though we’ll likely get regular old three-point belts here in the US. There are also plenty of options, most notably, a range of gloss carbon-fiber exterior components. 

This is actually McLaren’s third Le Mans edition, with the company offering similar packages for the 650S and 720S. You could accuse McLaren of milking its history, but when the history is this good, why not? The F1 GTR is an icon among icons, and its victory in 1995 was the first for a debutant constructor in decades. It’s also a feat that hasn’t been repeated since.

McLaren currently has GT3 cars racing at Le Mans, but it’s making a comeback to the top class in 2027, with an LMDh prototype set to contest the World Endurance Championship. With any hope, that car could give McLaren another excuse to make a special edition.

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