Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney join investors buying into Alpine F1 team

Refense, Monday, June 26, 2023.  

‘Welcome to Wrexham’ star Ryan Reynolds, might buy a F1 Team, along with Rob McElhenney, and the other investors. (Article courtesy of The Guardian)

The actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, flush with the success they have brought to Wrexham football club, are expanding their sporting portfolio with an investment in the Alpine Formula One team.

Having been central to the most unlikely rags-to-riches story documented in the enormously popular TV show Welcome To Wrexham, their part in a £157m stake in Alpine is hoped to reap a similar reward in F1 which is enjoying a resurgence in global popularity.

On Monday Alpine, based in the UK at Enstone in Oxfordshire, owned by the car manufacturer Renault and branded after its sportscar range, announced they had sold a 24% stake in the team to a consortium of investors. They include Reynolds, the actor best known for his role in the Deadpool films, and McElhenney one of the lead actors in long-running sitcom It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. The pair have also been joined by co-investor Michael B Jordan the lead in the Rocky spin-off, Creed films.