Tooned was McLaren’s playful leap into animation, debuting in 2012 as a short-form CGI series created by McLaren Animation with Framestore. The bite-sized episodes, typically around three minutes long, aired ahead of each Grand Prix on Sky Sports F1 and featured real McLaren drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button alongside the fictional, over-the-top Professor M, voiced by Alexander Armstrong. Set largely around the team’s headquarters, the show mixed inside jokes, exaggerated personaliti