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Upon becoming CEO, Zak Brown replaced all but one member of McLaren Racing's 10-person leadership team, promoting the existing CFO, Laura.
The 2026 Formula One season will feature the biggest regulation change in the sport's history, creating a "clean sheet of paper" for car design.
McLaren Racing has won the Formula One Constructors' Championship for two consecutive years.
McLaren Racing is co-owned by Mumtalakat (Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund) and Sivan (Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund), with Mumtalakat holding the majority stake.
The valuation of McLaren Racing has grown from approximately 560 million pounds five years ago to around 3.5 billion pounds today.
A new 11th team entering Formula One has had to pay an entry fee of almost $500 million and is expected to spend another one to two billion dollars before becoming profitable.
Zak Brown estimates the current valuation for a Formula One team ranges from a low of $2 billion to a high of $4 billion to $6 billion.
Formula One's growth strategy, aided by Netflix, successfully expanded its presence in North America from one to three races and attracted a younger, more female fan base.
Formula One has signed a new, large television rights deal with Apple.
When Zak Brown joined McLaren Racing in late 2016, the company was at a record low in sponsorship revenue and on-track results, with a "toxic work environment."
The prevailing belief within McLaren Racing before its turnaround was that the team's poor performance was solely the fault of its Honda engine.
After switching from a Honda engine to a Renault engine, McLaren Racing's performance only improved slightly, which served as a wake-up call that the engine was not the sole problem.