McLaren Racing has published its 2025 Sustainability Report outlining progress across a range of environmental and social metrics – and at the heart of almost every headline figure is a commercial partner.
Rather than positioning sustainability as a separate strand of the business, the report presents it as something driven through the same partnership model that underpins the team’s broader commercial operations.
Deloitte, Google, Ecolab and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation are all shown to have played defined roles in delivering the outcomes.
The most striking example sits well beyond the paddock. Working with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, McLaren’s Accelerator programme developed OSCAR – the Operational System for Coral Assembly and Restoration.
It is a semi-autonomous machine built using F1 engineering principles that reduces the time taken to assemble each coral restoration cradle from 90 seconds to just 10. Followers of the McLaren Mastercard F1 Team will note the naming is unlikely to be accidental.
The result is a tenfold increase in the number of corals that can be planted on the reef annually – from 100,000 to more than one million – with the system currently being tested in Australia ahead of a planned global rollout.
“As our sport continues to see incredible growth around the world, it is all the more important that we work hard to reduce our overall impact on the planet and the pressures on global resources – and collaboration and great partnerships are essential to us achieving that,” said Zak Brown, Chief Executive Officer of McLaren Racing.
“It’s fantastic to see our McLaren Accelerator team apply motorsport know-how to other industries to help supercharge processes and drive efficiencies, with our engineers working alongside marine biologists to find solutions in coral restoration.
“Equally, I’m excited by the work we’re doing with Deloitte and Google to continue our mission to build a fully circular F1 car. I’m proud of the progress we’ve made to date, and I’m excited about what’s next.”
It is all the more important that we work hard to reduce our overall impact on the planet and the pressures on global resources – and collaboration and great partnerships are essential to us achieving that.
Zak Brown
On the F1 side, working with Deloitte, the team has developed a Circular Car Roadmap – a first-of-its-kind pathway designed to rethink how race cars are designed, manufactured and reused.
Google’s data tools are being used to track McLaren’s circularity metric, with the team currently recording 22% circularity in F1 car production.
“What I’m most proud of in 2025 is seeing the way McLaren Racing’s performance mindset has translated into real sustainability progress,” added Kim Wilson, Director of Sustainability at McLaren Racing.
“Over the last year, we covered 100% of aviation emissions from business travel and F1 charter logistics with SAFc, maintained 22% circularity in F1 car production, and I saw first-hand the impact of Accelerator’s work with Great Barrier Reef Foundation, in helping to increase the speed of coral reef restoration tenfold through OSCAR.”
Partner Ecolab has enabled McLaren to cover 100% of its F1 charter logistics through sustainable aviation fuel certificates – equivalent to 1.1 million US gallons of fuel – alongside full coverage of business travel emissions.
The operational numbers from the report reflect that work across the season as a whole. McLaren recorded a 39% reduction in emissions against its baseline, with total waste down 14% and hazardous waste disposal in composites manufacturing down 40% against 2024.
For a team competing at the front of the championship, the report makes a pointed argument – that the partnerships McLaren builds do not begin and end at the garage door.
