McLaren And Exxonmobil Extend Deal

F1’s Vodafone McLaren Mercedes has extended its technology partnership with ExxonMobil for a further five years.

The deal has extended the companies partnership to 17 years, the longest continuous oil company sponsorship of a F1 team in the sport.

Under the agreement, ExxonMobil will continue to supple the McLaren team with their expertise, technology and trackside support.

McLaren Group executive chairman Ron Dennis said: ‘It’s tremendously pleasing that companies of such scale and global reach choose not only to become partners with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, but to continue that relationship over so many years’.

The F1 team has also recently renewed commercial partnerships with Vodafone, Santander and AkzoNobel.