McLaren Group

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The McLaren Group is a group of companies, created by Ron Dennis, focused around the Team McLaren racing team and Formula One constructor. It includes:

• McLaren Racing, the company behind the Team McLaren Formula One constructor
• McLaren Cars, the company which has produced small volumes of the McLaren F1 road car and currently makes the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren in conjunction with DaimlerChrysler
• McLaren Electronic Systems
• McLaren Marketing
• McLaren Composites
• Absolute Taste, caterer to Team McLaren
• Lydden Circuit, which manages a racetrack of the same name near Dover in Kent.
• McLaren Applied Technologies, which develops commercial applications for the Group's technologies and provides an internal resource for facilities and expertise.

Since 1995, DaimlerChrysler (at the time Daimler-Benz) has supplied British-built Ilmor engines to the McLaren Formula One team under the Mercedes-Benz brand. In January 2000, DaimlerChrysler bought a 40% share of the Group, with Ron Dennis and the TAG Group (owned by Mansour Ojjeh) each owning a 30% share [1].

The Group is based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking in the United Kingdom.