McLaren caused a stir in the late 1990s when it ran its cars in its classic orange colours during pre-season. The first time it did this, in 1997, was as an interim measure before its new silver colour scheme was unveiled at a glitzy launch in London featuring a performance by the Spice Girls.

The livery made a return in testing in 2006, where it again served as an interim design ahead of the team’s eye-catching chrome rebrand for that year.

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After repeated calls for McLaren to race in orange again for the first time since the 1970s, which were always resisted by Ron Dennis, the team’s new leadership went for it in 2017.

However, it’s black and orange attempt for its final year with Honda was a disappointment, with Jenson Button even remarking that Fernando Alonso’s all-orange Indy 500 car was the right shade of orange.

McLaren got it right a year later, ditching the black and switching to its true ‘papaya’ shade.