{"id":37299,"date":"2026-01-23T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=37299"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:57:20","slug":"mclaren-partially-wins-uk-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=37299","title":{"rendered":"McLaren partially wins UK lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
McLaren Racing on Friday won part of its lawsuit against four-times IndyCar champion Alex Palou over his aborted move to the team, with London’s High Court ruling the reigning Formula One world champions were owed around $12 million.<\/p>\n

McLaren Racing, which runs the reigning Formula One world champions and the Arrow McLaren team in U.S.-based IndyCar sued Palou after his move fell apart three years ago.<\/p>\n

McLaren have emerged as a dominant force in Formula One, with Lando Norris winning the drivers’ title last year as the team won the constructors’ title.<\/p>\n

Their IndyCar team, however, are relatively new and Palou agreeing a deal in late 2022 to join would have been a coup, according to McLaren’s lawyers.<\/p>\n

But Palou, who had signed a deal with McLaren, ultimately stayed with Chip Ganassi Racing and won three consecutive IndyCar titles from 2023 to 2025, plus May’s Indianapolis 500.<\/p>\n

Palou said dream to race in F1<\/p>\n

McLaren’s lawyers argued at a trial last year that the team missed out on “the on-track success it would otherwise have achieved” with Palou as their driver and claimed $19.7 million.<\/p>\n

Palou’s lawyers said the Spanish driver owed McLaren nothing and he gave evidence in October that he felt McLaren misled him about his prospects of racing in Formula One.<\/p>\n

Judge Simon Picken ruled in McLaren’s favour in relation to its claim it had to pay additional sums to its Mexican driver Pato O’Ward, amounting to just over $1.3 million, because he had “greater leverage” when negotiating his salary.<\/p>\n

McLaren also won parts of its case in relation to performance-based prize money and sponsor payments it said it would have earned if Palou drove for McLaren.<\/p>\n

In total, McLaren was awarded at least $10.2 million, plus another $2 million to $2.5 million depending on expert evidence.<\/p>\n

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown said in a statement: “We thank the court for recognising the very significant commercial impact and disruption our business suffered as a result of Alex’s breach of contract with the team.”<\/p>\n

Palou said in a statement that the ruling “shows the claims against me were completely overblown”, adding: “I’m disappointed that any damages have been awarded to McLaren. They have not suffered any loss because of what they have gained from the driver who replaced me.”<\/p>\n

Chip Ganassi said: “Alex has our full support, now and always.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McLaren Racing on Friday won part of its lawsuit against four-times IndyCar champion Alex Palou over his aborted move to the team, with London’s High Court ruling the reigning Formula One world champions were owed around $12 million. McLaren Racing, which runs the reigning Formula One world champions and the Arrow McLaren team in U.S.-based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}