{"id":343189,"date":"2019-01-24T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=343189"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:47:30","slug":"mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Things Could Get Weird<\/h2>\n<p>Looking like a mashup of TRON and every futuristic racing video game you can imagine, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mclaren.com\/appliedtechnologies\/lab\/future-grand-prix\/\">McLaren Applied Technologies<\/a>&nbsp;has a vision for F1 racing in 2050.<\/strong> It is nothing if not exciting. <strong>The company talked with fans, racecar drivers, engineers, and others intimately involved in Formula 1 racing to create a vision of the future for the sport.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McLaren chose 2050 as the year to focus on. <strong>It chose that because 2050 marks 100 years for F1 racing.<\/strong> The car that the company came up with is called the MCLExtreme. The car has an <strong>open-wheel design and includes a driver, but uses futuristic technology.<\/strong> That tech includes shapeshifting active aerodynamics, an onboard advanced AI co-pilot, all-electric powertrain with&nbsp;500 km\/h inductive charging, autonomous and mixed reality technology and a whole lot more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? You&#8217;re missing out<\/h2>\n<p class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content\">Any Text Here<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a07online-global-marketing-prompt\" href=\"https:\/\/supercars.memberful.com\/checkout?plan=86696\">Get Started<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-signin\">\n<h4 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-signin\">Already a Member? <a href=\"https:\/\/supercars.memberful.com\/account\">Sign in to your account here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things Could Get Weird Looking like a mashup of TRON and every futuristic racing video game you can imagine, McLaren Applied Technologies&nbsp;has a vision for F1 racing in 2050. It is nothing if not exciting. The company talked with fans, racecar drivers, engineers, and others intimately involved in Formula 1 racing to create a vision of the future for the sport.&nbsp; McLaren chose 2050 as the year to focus on. It chose that because 2050 marks 100 years for F1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":343192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,11272,18207],"tags":[429,76,20123,20276,22929,604],"class_list":["post-343189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mclaren","category-members-only","category-special-feature","tag-news","tag-mclaren","tag-mclaren-featured","tag-mclaren-race-cars-featured","tag-race-cars-featured","tag-f1"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The British company McLaren Applied Technologies did a unique study of F1 racing so it could come up with a vision of the sport for 2050.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The British company McLaren Applied Technologies did a unique study of F1 racing so it could come up with a vision of the sport for 2050.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-24T16:18:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-06T00:47:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1238\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"617\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wade Thiel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/WadeThiel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Wade Thiel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Wade Thiel\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/26c635a311f3d6113d1b9510c4ac25d5\"},\"headline\":\"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-24T16:18:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-06T00:47:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":475,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Car News\",\"McLaren\",\"McLaren (Featured)\",\"McLaren Race Cars (Featured)\",\"Race Cars (Featured)\",\"Series (Formula 1)\"],\"articleSection\":[\"McLaren\",\"Members Only\",\"Special Feature\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/\",\"name\":\"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-24T16:18:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-06T00:47:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/26c635a311f3d6113d1b9510c4ac25d5\"},\"description\":\"The British company McLaren Applied Technologies did a unique study of F1 racing so it could come up with a vision of the sport for 2050.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg\",\"width\":1238,\"height\":617,\"caption\":\"Image from McLaren Applied Technologies\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Supercars.net\",\"description\":\"Exotic and Supercar news, information, pictures and videos\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/26c635a311f3d6113d1b9510c4ac25d5\",\"name\":\"Wade Thiel\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/wadethiel-100x100.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/wadethiel-100x100.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/wadethiel-100x100.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Wade Thiel\"},\"description\":\"Wade Thiel divides his time between motorcycles, cars, and the outdoors. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and can be found tinkering in his shed when he isn't writing.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.wadethiel.com\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/WadeThiel\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/wade\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050","description":"The British company McLaren Applied Technologies did a unique study of F1 racing so it could come up with a vision of the sport for 2050.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050","og_description":"The British company McLaren Applied Technologies did a unique study of F1 racing so it could come up with a vision of the sport for 2050.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/","og_site_name":"Supercars.net","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/","article_published_time":"2019-01-24T16:18:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-06T00:47:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1238,"height":617,"url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Wade Thiel","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/WadeThiel","twitter_site":"@supercars_net","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Wade Thiel","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/"},"author":{"name":"Wade Thiel","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/26c635a311f3d6113d1b9510c4ac25d5"},"headline":"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050","datePublished":"2019-01-24T16:18:33+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-06T00:47:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/"},"wordCount":475,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg","keywords":["Car News","McLaren","McLaren (Featured)","McLaren Race Cars (Featured)","Race Cars (Featured)","Series (Formula 1)"],"articleSection":["McLaren","Members Only","Special Feature"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/","name":"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg","datePublished":"2019-01-24T16:18:33+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-06T00:47:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/26c635a311f3d6113d1b9510c4ac25d5"},"description":"The British company McLaren Applied Technologies did a unique study of F1 racing so it could come up with a vision of the sport for 2050.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mclaren-future-CAR-02.jpg","width":1238,"height":617,"caption":"Image from McLaren Applied Technologies"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-applied-technologies-envisions-the-future-of-f1-in-2050\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"McLaren Applied Technologies Envisions the Future of F1 in 2050"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/","name":"Supercars.net","description":"Exotic and Supercar news, information, pictures and videos","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/26c635a311f3d6113d1b9510c4ac25d5","name":"Wade Thiel","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wadethiel-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wadethiel-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wadethiel-100x100.jpg","caption":"Wade Thiel"},"description":"Wade Thiel divides his time between motorcycles, cars, and the outdoors. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and can be found tinkering in his shed when he isn't writing.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.wadethiel.com\/","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/WadeThiel"],"url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/author\/wade\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}