At the end of 2011 McLaren Group completely bought back the stocks from Daimler.

Hulme and Revson drove the McLaren M20 in the 1972 CanAm races, but the M20 was overpowered by Roger Penske's Porsche American Challenge Cup series ( for Group 7 sports cars ), and at Indianapolis.

When it was developed, Mercedes-Benz owned 40 percent of the McLaren Group.

Ronald " Ron " Dennis CBE ( born 1 June 1947 ) is the executive chairman of McLaren Automotive and McLaren Group, and is also a significant shareholder in both companies.

In January 2007, Dennis sold half of his 30 percent shareholding in the McLaren Group to the Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, leaving him with a 15 percent share.

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Matt Bishop, who was born in London in 1962, is Head of Communications and Public Relations for the McLaren Group, which position he took up in January 2008.

He works closely with the 2008 Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton, the 2009 Formula One World Champion Jenson Button, McLaren Group Chairman Ron Dennis and the McLaren Formula One team's Team Principal, Martin Whitmarsh.

On 26 September 2007 it was announced that Bishop would leave Haymarket, publisher of F1 Racing and Autosport, to become Head of Communications and Public Relations for the McLaren Group, effective January 2008.

The Group was originally formed from the team established by New Zealander Bruce McLaren in 1963 and is now focused around the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula One Racing Team.

McLaren also said " The McLaren Group will become a fully independent stand-alone corporate entity " as McLaren is to buy back stock from Daimler in phases up until 2011.

At the end of 2011 McLaren Group completely bought back the stocks from Daimler.

On 3 January 2000, Daimler AG ( then DaimlerChrysler AG ) exercised an option to buy 40 percent of the then TAG McLaren Group.

In November 2003 TAG McLaren Group announced it would change its name to McLaren Group and its associated companies would also drop the TAG name.

In August 2006 it was reported that Daimler was considering acquiring the 60 percent of McLaren Group held by Dennis and Ojjeh.

Several Grand Prix teams established formal links with F3000 teams to develop young drivers ( and engineering talent ); these relationships varied from formal " junior teams " ( such as the one McLaren set up for Nick Heidfeld ) to fairly distant relationships based mostly upon shared sponsors and the use of the ' parent ' team's name.

McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.

In 1964 and 1965 McLaren were based in New Malden, then Feltham before settling on premises in Colnbrook.

* 1984: British Pop impresario Malcolm McLaren wrote and performed a UK hit single, " Madame Butterfly ( Un bel dì vedremo )", produced by Stephen Hague, based on the opera and featuring the famous aria.

In the United Kingdom, a great deal of punk fashion from the 1970s was based on the designs of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren and the Bromley Contingent.

The six-storey John Grierson Building at its Montreal headquarters has sat empty for several years – with HQ staff now based solely in its adjacent Norman McLaren Building.

The first assignment he attaches himself to is an attempted separatist secession by followers of the Transient movement ( a group of people who use genetic body modification based on alien DNA to become a completely different species, forced to live in the Angels 8 slum district ) led by Fred Christ, a former rock group manager and impresario similar to Malcolm McLaren.

Despite his friendship and good past working relationship with Prost at McLaren, Barnard opted to leave the Maranello based team and join Benetton, seeking a new challenge, and relishing working again for a team based in England where he wouldn't be subject to the Italian press, who are famously quick to jump on any faults with their beloved Ferrari Grand Prix cars.

The company was established as McLaren Cars in 1989 as a producer of road cars based on Formula One technology.

McLaren chaired also the London based Metropolitan Railway Company and the shipbuilding firm John Brown & Company.

* McLaren X-1, a 2012 bespoke supercar created for an anonymous client and based on the McLaren MP4-12C

It was also rumored that it would be the last race for Ayrton Senna at McLaren, however this would ultimately prove false as the Brazilian would remain with the Woking based team for.

* McLaren Mercedes, a Formula One Grand Prix team based in Woking, England

In 2008, the CBC shot Abroad, a television movie of the week, written and produced by McLaren and based on her experiences as a young Canadian newspaper reporter living and dating in London.

The car that McCormick drove, the Coyote X, was built from custom molds based on the McLaren M6GT.

Then, not long before the finish, the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ), organizers of the Le Mans event, informed Ford that the geographical difference in starting positions would be taken into account at a close finish – meaning that the McLaren / Amon vehicle, which had started perhaps behind the Hulme-Miles car, would have covered slightly more ground over the 24 hours and would therefore be the winner.

They could reward an outstanding driver who had been at times extremely difficult to work with, or they could decide in favour of drivers ( McLaren / Amon ) with less commitment to the Ford program but who had been easier to deal with.

On February 28, 2005, at 12: 08 hrs local time, in Nardò, Italy, the CCR broke the Guinness record for the fastest production car in the world, having attained on the Nardò Ring ( a circular track of circumference ), breaking the record previously held by the McLaren F1.

Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, where they dominated from 1967 to 1971.

It is driven here by Bruce McLaren at the Nürburgring in 1969.

That year McLaren experimented with four-wheel drive in the M9A but the car had only a single outing driven by Derek Bell at the British Grand Prix ; Bruce described driving it as like " trying to write your signature with somebody jogging your elbow ".

McLaren gave Jody Scheckter his Formula One debut at the final race at Watkins Glen.

Alain Prost, pictured here at the 1985 German Grand Prix, won three drivers ' championships with McLaren.

After a brief period unofficially managing the New York Dolls, Englishman Malcolm McLaren returned to London in May 1975, inspired by the new scene he had witnessed at CBGB.

In September 1976 the band travelled to London to perform at the two-day 100 Club Punk Festival, organised by Malcolm McLaren.

He progressed through motor sport's junior ranks, winning the French and European Formula Three championships, before joining the McLaren Formula One team in 1980 at the age of 25.

Senna joined Prost at McLaren in 1988 and the two had a series of controversial clashes, including a collision at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix that gave Prost his third Drivers ' Championship.

Prost and John Barnard, formerly chief designer at McLaren, came close to founding a team in 1990 ; but a lack of sponsorship meant that this was not possible, so Prost moved to Ferrari.

With Lauda out of the contest, Ferrari boycotted the Austrian GP in protest at what they saw as preferential treatment shown towards McLaren driver James Hunt at the Spanish and British GPs.

The pair shook hands at the commencement of the game, bringing closure to the issue, but Carlton fans were particularly hostile to any free kicks given by McLaren to Essendon.

During 1993, Häkkinen, along with Ayrton Senna, tested the Lamborghini V12 engine in a modified version of the McLaren MP4 / 8 race car dubbed the " MP4 / 8B " at both Estoril and Silverstone.

Häkkinen driving for McLaren at the 1995 British Grand Prix.

Coulthard took the first win for McLaren in over three seasons at the Australian Grand Prix.

According to McLaren, these schemes are environmentally destructive, economically exploitative, and culturally insensitive at its worst.

He moved into single seaters, winning the US and Canadian Formula Atlantic championships in 1976, before being offered a drive in Formula One with the McLaren team at the 1977 British Grand Prix.

After Villeneuve impressed James Hunt by beating him and several other Grand Prix stars in a non-championship Formula Atlantic race at Trois-Rivières in 1976, Hunt's McLaren team offered Villeneuve a Formula One deal for up to five races in a third car during the 1977 season.

McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow, and notorious for generating scandal, proposed some new material that was sexually suggestive, and did not fit with what at the time was the band's tomboyish and straightforward image.