Google’s McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car

Google's McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car
Google's McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car

Season five of Formula 1: Drive to Survive could potentially include scenes of McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown smashing a Chromebook or Android tablet, Tom Brady-style, thanks to a new arrangement between the team and Google.

In 2020, McLaren exited its deal with OnePlus that produced several powerfully-specced black and orange Android phones, but there’s no indication of a similar branding exercise coming to the Pixel series anytime soon.

Instead, the new “multi-year” agreement between Google and McLaren is putting branding on the MCL36 driven by Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo (who is now available to drive in this weekend’s season-opening Bahrain GP after multiple negative tests following a case of COVID-19), their race suits and…

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