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Earlier this morning, the Financial Times reported that Apple was in talks to buy McLaren, citing three different unnamed sources. But we just spoke with officials at McLaren, and they claim none of it is true. At all.
“We can confirm that McLaren is not in discussion with Apple in respect of any potential investment,” McLaren’s terse, one-line official statement reads.
A source we spoke to at McLaren went further, saying there was zero truth to the rumor. “It’s not true at all. There’s no chatter, there’s no acquisition,” the source said.
When asked if one of McLaren’s minority investors, such as the Bahraini sovereign wealth fund known as Mumtalakat could be willing to divest its stake, the source said that would not entail an Apple takeover, either.
Mumtalakat only owns half of the automotive group, and not any portion of the valuable Applied Technologies Group or the Formula One team.
UPDATE: 1:18 PM: Tim Bradshaw, one of the reporters behind the FT’s initial story, says that the paper is sticking with its initial reporting:
Damn, he went from number juan Penske driver in 2015 to number four. Supposedly Penske offered him an Indy only drive for 2017 but he juan-ted to continue full time.
Photographer climbed over the fence to get closer to the action, even though he is facing the sun. I guess it's better to ask for forgiveness instead of permission. His bag was right at the edge. Was hoping he would accidentally bump it so it would roll down hill. =P
Hungry Jr. took his first plane ride today with his grandparents to visit family in Kentucky. He LOVES planes. Pretty cool he got to see the cockpit I didn't know they still did that these days.
I was tempted to join him, but the date fell too close to my chump race.
We sucked. 12 laps down at the end. 7th/9 in the lightest division, 14th/25 overall. I bruised the **** out of my ribs during my 2nd one-hour stint and they are still super sore, almost a week later.
We had a bunch of mistakes. At least 4 or 5 spins...one botched pitstop where we lost a couple of laps. I was 4 seconds off the pace when I did my last stint of 30 mins because I couldn't make right turns from my ribs hurting. Also we had two quicker people (myself included) and the other two were probably 0.5-0.75 seconds off the pace. With no mistakes and four fast people we could have been a lot closer to the front...but it's so hard to get four fast people to commit to these things. The race alone was $1500.
Hungry Jr. took his first plane ride today with his grandparents to visit family in Kentucky. He LOVES planes. Pretty cool he got to see the cockpit I didn't know they still did that these days.
I just watched Sully last night in IMAX and the cockpit looks the same, especially with those two wheel/dial things just behind your kid's left shoulder. Maybe it's an Airbus 320?
Oh yeah did he get his wings? All my friends with kids who took flights the past couple years said the kids got plastic wings if it's their first flight.
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I didn't know they still did that these days. 
