Arrow McLaren Rewrapped Its IndyCar Twice in One Day After Rain Upended Milwaukee
A rain-scrambled doubleheader handed the team's vinyl crew a 6 AM start and two complete rewraps of Nolan Siegel's No. 6 — on the day Pato O'Ward swept both races.
Rain turned IndyCar's Milwaukee Mile doubleheader into a scheduling mess — and left Arrow McLaren's wrap crew reskinning Nolan Siegel's No. 6 Chevrolet twice in a single day, starting at 6:00 AM to make it all fit.
The livery change itself was planned. Siegel's car was set to run Race 1 in McLaren's papaya orange and white with Kohler branding, then switch to a blue-accented scheme promoting Chevrolet and GM's Future Techs technician-recruitment program for Race 2. The swap was penciled in for Saturday evening, in the quiet gap between the two races.
The weather deleted that gap. Intermittent rain suspended Race 1 with 160 laps still to run, and the completion was pushed to 6 PM Sunday — five hours after Race 2's 1 PM start. That meant stripping the Kohler vinyl at dawn, applying the Future Techs wrap for the afternoon race, then reversing the entire job before the evening restart. Arrow McLaren says three vinyl specialists handled the work, and the design was tweaked on the fly to make the changeover quicker.
The scheme was a rush job by any standard. Lauren Gaudion, the team's marketing and communications VP, first pitched the two-livery idea at Portland in early August, less than a month out from Milwaukee, and says the final design — developed with GM Design — came together in about three days.
The wrap sprint played out against one of the stranger weekends in recent IndyCar memory. Siegel's teammate Pato O'Ward won both races, becoming the first driver since Rick Mears in 1981 to take two IndyCar victories in a single day and lifting his 2026 win count to three, while Alex Palou quietly clinched his fifth series championship. Siegel brought the No. 6 home 13th in Race 1 and 17th in Race 2, according to the team.
As for the branding on the car: Future Techs is GM's recruiting funnel for its Automotive Service Educational Program, a two-year associate degree offered at 54 US schools that mixes classroom study with paid, hands-on training at GM dealerships. Graduates typically step straight into technician roles — jobs GM says are in heavy demand as dealership service departments struggle to hire.
Mid-season livery swaps happen all the time in racing. Two complete rewraps in roughly 12 hours, around a schedule that kept moving, is rarer — and this time the deadline chased a recruiting billboard around a one-mile oval in front of a packed Milwaukee crowd.
