Chris Bryant, Columnist

McLaren Supercars Have Some Very Wealthy Superfans

Legacy automakers might balk at acquiring another trophy asset and a SPAC merger looks like a stretch. Might a tech company be interested?

Fans in high places.

Photographer: DREW PHILLIPS
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It says something about McLaren Group’s unfortunate predicament that some of the defining moments in its recent history have happened in a courtroom, rather than on the racetrack.

McLaren’s lawyers filed a petition in June warning that the company would run out of money if bondholders prevented it from mortgaging trophy assets, including its Norman Foster-designed British headquarters.