For those who vividly remember watching the McLarens of Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna scooping seven world titles in eight years in the 1980s and '90s, the events of the last two years must have come as quite the culture shock. The Woking-based team have, of course, endured lulls of success in the past. Seven years, for example, passed between Senna's final championship in 1991 and Mika Hakkinen's first in 1998. Following the Finn's second title in 1999, McLaren then waited nine years—including a winless campaign in 2006—before Lewis Hamilton recorded their next drivers' crown, by a margin of just one point, in 2008. And the constructors', you ask? Whisper it quietly, but it's slowly yet surely creeping up to 20 year...

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For those who vividly remember watching the McLarens of Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna scooping seven world titles in eight years in the 1980s and '90s, the events of the last two years must have come as quite the culture shock. The Woking-based team have, of course, endured lulls of success in the past. Seven years, for example, passed between Senna's final championship in 1991 and Mika Hakkinen's first in 1998. Following the Finn's second title in 1999, McLaren then waited nine years—including a winless campaign in 2006—before Lewis Hamilton recorded their next drivers' crown, by a margin of just one point, in 2008. And the constructors', you ask? Whisper it quietly, but it's slowly yet surely creeping up to 20 year...

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