Modern Formula 1 is a full-time business. The 2022 season consisted of 22 Grands Prix stretching all the way from March to November, and 2023 is set to be even busier. The bigger teams can employ anywhere up to 1000 people and the pressure is relentless, so it’s no surprise that McLaren CEO Zak Brown likes to get away from it all by using what little spare time he has to… well, actually, he likes to go motor racing.
His collection covers everything from Indycar and Formula 1 – including an ex-Ayrton Senna McLaren MP4/6 – to rallying, Can-Am and NASCAR. Then there’s his Jaguar XJR-10, which was restored by United Autosports, the race team that Brown and Richard Dean founded in 2009 and which now runs the Castrol-livered car in Historic events. ‘It’s definitely a form of stress relief,’ says Brown, a 51-year-old native of Los Angeles, ‘but it adds a different stress because you want to be competitive.’
Designed by Tony Southgate, the XJR-10 – as well as its Group C sibling, the XJR-11 – marked a new direction for the TWR Jaguar team when it was introduced in 1989. Up until that point, the British company had relied on
