Few names evoke such a storied and successful connection to racing as McLaren.

Beginning in earnest with Bruce McLaren’s eponymous racing team that the New Zealand-born driver set up to join Formula 1 in 1966, the name has been a constant among the upper echelons of motorsport ever since.

In that time, many of the finest drivers to grace the grid have won F1 Drivers’ Championships with McLaren—among them Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, and Ayrton Senna—totalling seven drivers claiming 12 titles for the second-oldest active and second-most successful outfit in the sport after Ferrari.

Outside of Formula 1, the marque’s most significant competition success of recent years is surely Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing’s race-winning tilt to the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans title, with Yannick Dalmas, JJ Lehto, and Masanori Sekiya sealing victory from behind the wheel of a McLaren F1 GTR.

The overall win at the Circuit de la Sarthe came at McLaren’s maiden attempt, while three other F1 GTRs from privateer te...