When Zak Brown joined McLaren as its CEO in 2018, it was a very completely different operation to it’s now having received the 2024 System 1 constructors’ championship.
It was McLaren’s first groups’ crown since 1998 and got here after a number of administration and structural modifications from the second Brown first walked by way of the door.
The American has developed into a powerful chief and on the podcast, he shares a few of his administration strategies and delves into how he used to run a sports activities advertising and marketing enterprise.
However an F1 staff has many extra departments, all of which should be high-performing, that means Brown has had enormous stress on his shoulders ever since becoming a member of McLaren.
So how did he lastly get McLaren in form to win the championship? Whereas the British outfit claimed the 2024 constructors’ crown, its star man Lando Norris missed out on the drivers’ title to Max Verstappen, so does Brown nonetheless remorse not being extra ruthless at sure races in 2024?
Brown additionally talked about why he feels the FIA should make severe modifications to how F1 is ruled and if he makes McLaren the favorite to reclaim its title.
Within the studio with James is Autosport’s editor-in-chief Rebecca Clancy, in addition to chief motorsport author Ben Hunt.
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