Eyewear of Champions - British Brands SunGod and McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team Gear Up for Sixth Year of Collaboration
A relentless pursuit of clarity, precision, and marginal gains results in, ultimately, victory. A shared obsession for perfection between pioneering British eyewear brand SunGod and Championship-winning McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team sees a renewed collaboration for 2026 between two leading British brands. Introducing the McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team x SunGod 2026 Collection.
Fresh off the back of McLaren’s most successful season to date, a standout year with a back to back World Championship win and a Drivers Championship win, SunGod has confirmed the renewal of its partnership with the team for a sixth year of collaboration as the official eyewear partner.
The result is a new look McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team x SunGod Collection which includes team edition staples of SunGod’s Everyday collection — Renegades, Miras, Sierras and Tokas — alongside its newest PACE performance model, the FORTY2s. Completing the line up are limited-edition LN1 and OP81 models, designed in collaboration with World Champion Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
"Our elite sporting partners across all the sports we support at SunGod carry a shared vision - a pursuit of excellence, something we aim to embody from our side as a partner of theirs,” explains Ali Watkins, Co-Founder and CEO of SunGod. “Witnessing the team’s emphatic season in 2025 was a proud moment for us all and one we’re excited to build upon in 2026, whilst bringing fans closer to the sport through not just product, but an experience. The team’s success drives us to continue pushing our own boundaries of innovation and style, as brought to life with our latest collaboration collection for 2026."
Since day one of the partnership, SunGod has worked closely with McLaren to develop iconic, performance eyewear built for the demands of race weekends. Creating high-performance eyewear for drivers and teams, and a unique connection for fans all around the world.
Ongoing product development and iteration is shaped by close collaboration and direct feedback from drivers and team members, paired with deeper engagement with both the team and motorsports growing global fanbase.
Each frame in the collection features lightweight construction, polarised lens options and a McLaren lens engraving, finished with a Papaya logo plate and the iconic McLaren Racing Speedmark.
All styles in the collection are fully customisable and backed by SunGod’s lifetime guarantee. Prices start from £60.
More information on the McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team x SunGod 2026 range can be found at www.sungod.co
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About SunGod:
SunGod is a British performance eyewear brand, founded in 2013 with HQs in London and Verbier, Switzerland. Their mission is simple: See Better. Through their lenses, through their actions and through doing business better. Starting out as a crowdfunding campaign in 2013, SunGod has grown to become a globally recognised performance eyewear brand, that is performance-driven, community-built, and sustainable to the core.
SunGods are worn by elite athletes and teams around the world, and their partners - who range from WorldTour cycling teams like SD Worx and the INEOS Grenadiers, to globally recognised names such as England Cricket and McLaren Racing - prove the performance of their products at the very highest level.
As a certified B Corp, SunGod has also built a business model that puts people, planet and profit on equal footing at the heart of its business model In May 2023, SunGod was also awarded the prestigious King’s Award for Sustainable Development. Together with their athletes, partners, ambassadors and customers, SunGod’s mission to See Better is multiplied.
