McLaren is a motor racing name dating to 1963, when Bruce McLaren founded the team that bears his name, McLaren Racing. McLaren Racing describes itself as home to teams in 📝Formula 1, INDYCAR, endurance racing and gaming, and its Formula 1 entry races as the McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team. The name McLaren also covers an automotive business, which mclaren.com lists as Automotive alongside Racing. Companies House lists McLaren Automotive Limited, called McLaren Cars Limited until 2005, as a motor vehicle manufacturer with its registered office at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking; McLaren Group's 2025 accounts say McLaren Automotive launched its first product, the 12C, in 2011.
McLaren Racing's first Formula 1 victory came at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix. According to McLaren Group's modern slavery statement for the year ending 31 December 2025, signed on 9 April 2026, McLaren Group Limited is a parent company with no employees or trading of its own, and at 31 December 2025 it owned the entire issued share capital of McLaren Racing Limited, Mile Marketing Limited and McLaren Newco Limited. The same statement places McLaren Racing within the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) and notes that McLaren Electric Racing Limited operated a Formula E team until July 2025. The group's 2025 accounts, filed in October 2026, state that on 2 April 2025 it sold the automotive business to Foreight Limited, now McLaren Group Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of CYVN Holdings LLC, an investment vehicle company based in Abu Dhabi, and on 2 September 2025 took full ownership of McLaren Racing Limited. At 31 December 2025, Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company owned 60% of McLaren Group Limited and McLaren Group Holdings Limited 40%. The accounts add that in January 2026 CYVN Holdings was transferred into L'IMAD Holding Company, a newly established state-owned investment vehicle.