MCLAREN F1 BOSS Martin Whitmarsh has moved to dismiss rumours his team are interested in purchasing BMW F1’s Munich manufacturing plant.

With Mercedes-Benz believed to have purchased a stake in Brawn GP in preparation for launching a factory team from 2012, the Suzuka paddock was alight with talk that McLaren is keen to build its own [...]

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MERCEDES-BENZ MOTORSPORT BOSS Norbert Haug has declared it would be “bizarre” for McLaren to consider the possibility of defending its World Championship.
While McLaren has managed to remain in the headlines throughout the season – albeit for the wrong reasons – on the track, the Woking-based outfit has found itself battling to remain relevant in race [...]

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McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen at the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix.

Mercedes-Benz motorsport boss Norbert Haug has rejected speculation McLaren will join Ferrari and Renault in threatening to withdraw from Formula One.

Haug says Mercedes, who own a 40 percent stake in McLaren, is keen to find a solution and negotiate a compromise agreement with the FIA rather than [...]

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Reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton has revealed he considered quitting Formula One after he was found to have misled a stewards inquiry at the Australian Grand Prix.

Hamilton was heavily criticised by the press in Britain for his role in the scandal, causing public sentiment towards the 24-year old to shift negatively as the country discovered [...]

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Ron Dennis will be landing firmly on his feet as he leaves McLaren Racing over the ‘Stewardsgate’ debacle.

News today puts Dennis at the helm of McLaren Automotive where he will oversee work on the upcoming McLaren P11 Supercar.

Dennis had this to say on the future of McLaren:
“The reorganisation of the McLaren Group is an extraordinarily [...]

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McLaren’s Ron Dennis has confirmed the worst-kept secret in Formula One, announcing he will hand over control of the company’s Formula One operations to Martin Whitmarsh.

Dennis’ decision to relinquish control of the F1 team was revealed as part of a major restructure of the McLaren Group’s corporate interests, which will see Dennis leading the company’s [...]

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Very few cars evoke the kind of passionate reaction that the McLaren F1 does. No one knows this like McLaren itself, which is why at its Technology Centre in Woking, England, McLaren engineers are hard at work developing a successor to the legendary F1.

McLaren is now in the midst of developing the P11 - a [...]

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Jim Dowle, designer of the McLaren F1, has announced plans to power his upcoming P1 project (first announced back in February ‘08) through an electric drivetrain, renaming it the P1-E project. No doubt you can figure out what the E stands for. At an expected price point of about £55,000 (AU$115,834) and aiming [...]

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Leaked clay model photos of McLaren’s coming P11 supercar have just hit the web and it looks as though the speculative renderings we brought you back in August, were close to the mark. UK automotive magazine Car managed to obtain the images from an insider and has been kind enough to spread the love.

The two-door mid-engined supercar [...]

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If you’ve heard of the McLaren F1 or the Caparo T1, and who hasn’t, then you’ll have seen Gordon Murray’s handiwork before. With these credentials, it’s not hard to understand why the automotive blogosphere is buzzing with news that Gordon Murray has plans to produce a lightweight ’supercar for the street’.

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More fun in the form of a lightweight, mid-engined sports car is reported to be on the way and Colin Chapman himself would approve of this new-comer and the very ‘Lotus-like’ philosophy behind it. The chap behind this new sports car is Jim Dowle, former McLaren car designer.

Dowle certainly has the credentials to design and [...]

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The Bolwell Car Company has revealed the fully finished face of its new Nagari sports car and from the front at least it looks sensational.

The single frontal image reveals sleek, low-slung lines with generous glass areas and classic mid-engined sports car styling.

The faired-in, four-headlight front end echoes the legendary McLaren F1, while other elements capture [...]

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