The mirrored McLaren and Hendrick liveries are the latest reminder that NASCAR's 2021 champion is actually, really running the Indianapolis 500 next year.
Next May, Kyle Larson will become the first driver since 2014 to compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. On Sunday, IndyCar partner Arrow McLaren and NASCAR partner Hendrick Motorsports revealed Larson's matching cars for the race.
As expected, both entries are sponsored by Larson's primary NASCAR sponsor, Rick Hendrick's HendrickCars.com. While the liveries are somewhat similar to what Hendrick and McLaren would run on an average weekend, they add aggressive splashes of the other team's signature color to create a matching pair. On the McLaren, that means wings and side pods in the NASCAR entry's blue.
While a NASCAR driver at McLaren may seem strange, the extra entry from the legendary F1 outfit's three-car IndyCar program was a major target for both Larson anddating back to 2022. Both are Chevrolet-affiliated drivers in NASCAR, leaving few opportunities for a one-off with a team capable of fielding a competitive Chevrolet-powered car in the race.
Larson will become the sixth driver to attempt both races in the same year, a tradition dating back to John Andretti's "Double" attempt in 1994. That equally impressive, taxing, and poorly-named one-day challenge is an odd tradition in modern NASCAR, where the series expects drivers to compete in every race of a season regardless of whether or not they participate in a bigger race earlier that day. Only one driver, Tony Stewart, has ever finished both races on the lead lap.
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