Pato O’Ward–McLaren’s IndyCar Star–Teams Up With Manuel Cuevas For a Custom Mexico City Grand Prix Fit

The bending roads and lilting knolls of College Grove, Tennessee, about 45 minutes south of Nashville, are still verdant in the late August heat. Pato O’Ward, the McLaren IndyCar star and reserve Formula 1 driver (behind Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri ), is at the wheel of a papaya-hued 750S, one of the brand’s street-legal supercars (which carries a price tag of around $320,000). I’m hunched at 6’5” in the passenger seat. We’re not exactly blending in as we search for the barely-marked driveway to the legendary Mexican designer Manuel Cuevas ’s home. As it happens, we overshoot it by about a quarter-mile before realizing the mistake; O’Ward three-point-turns the car around, and says, “hold on.”

In 2.3 seconds, we’ve cleared sixty miles per hour. A second later we’re at a hundred. T