McLaren boss Zak Brown says he is 'surprised' by his team's F1 title challenge this season.
McLaren Formula 1 boss Zak Brown says he is "surprised" to find the team in a battle with Red Bull for the world championship this season.
"I thought we might get where we are now by 2025. I didn't think we would be where we are now in 2024. But I'm not complaining." "It's going to be tough," Brown says. "I think it's going to come down to the last race. There's not much between the cars. It's gonna come down to how does Sergio Perez perform?
But Brown, McLaren Racing's chief executive officer, says: "We've all made a variety of errors, which to me are learning experiences. I thought Toto was accurate with his comment. He said: 'Well, sometimes you figure these things out once they've kind of been put on your plate.' The move was prompted by former team principal Andreas Seidl telling Brown he would be joining Audi in 2025 in time for the start of their F1 programme.
This year started with them third fastest behind Red Bull and Ferrari, but a major upgrade in Miami - on pretty much the whole of the car - put them toe-to-toe with Red Bull, and they have been there ever since. "Andrea communicates very well. He listens very well. He's very hard-working. He's very technical. He leads by example. All the traits you would want in a great leader. He unlocked the potential this team clearly had sitting there.""Truth be known," Brown says, "I offered it to him the first time around , and he declined it. He felt he wasn't ready."The second time around he knew me better, knew the team better, even though he'd been here a while.
"The team needed resources, because we were losing a tonne of money, to be able to invest in drivers and technology and people," he says.
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