2025 McLaren F1 Team

[Ground Effect]

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Seriously though, great job by Zak. When he was moved up from Commercial and appointed CEO of McLaren Racing in 2018, he made some hard to believe promises. But under he's leadership, he's spectacularly delivered! The 5 year plan to get back to fighting for wins and Championships came to fruition, (taking into consideration the disruption of COVID) even with the backward steps during the James Key era. He also said McLaren was willing, but would sign up a title sponsor for a big number. Instead, top level brands were brought on and raised the profile of the team, without underselling the title sponsor position. Dell, BAT, Google, Cisco, etc. Well done to Zak and the entire team, after a decade in the sewer, back on top in every metric.

[mwillems]

Thats great news. We already have some of the biggest sponsorship revenue on the grid, if not the biggest deals.

This will fix that fact and better enable the team to pay big driver contracts if need be.

Can't remember who I was talking to, but I recall saying previously that repeated success would bring us the bigger deals and it was a matter of time.

Go Mclaren.

I wonder if there's any further infrastructure upgrades they can sanction for the future with all these resources. Although they've only recently upgraded the wind tunnel, sim, cfd and composites facilities etc., there's always more you can do to stay up-to-date.

Possibly yeah. Even CapEx has limits under the cap though, but in theory we can update and replace. I wonder what could be upgraded though, since we recently built new sim, tunnel and manufacturing facility.

There's always more investment in AI and CFD I guess.

IIRC we still have debt from when shareholders supported us so I'd imagine we will be sending some money their way initially.

But as you point out, if we need cash for a big spend then we've got it.

[BMMR61]

It's been interesting watching the visibility of Mastercard since they first appeared with McLaren - no "Mastercard", just the logo, but very prominent. Always looked like Zak was really wooing them to get in with both feet. Now with the WDC/WCC double assured for 2025 and the evidence of a team totally on top, Mastercard have taken the leap and brought the big $$$$$$$. Very clever work by Zak, he's certainly proved to be the dealmaker. Naming rights, that's a status that goes back as far as Vodafone in 2013 doesn't it? I recall Ron Dennis baulking at naming rights sponsorship levels and preferring to go naked.