In the round-up: McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown doesn’t expect his Formula 1 team to make the step up to being championship contenders this year.
In brief
McLaren still “catching up” – BrownMcLaren ended its nine-year wait for an F1 win last season. However Brown says the team still has work to do on its facilities to bring it up to the level of rivals such as Mercedes and Red Bull.
“Of course, we’re going to give it everything we’ve got,” he told Gulf Business. “But we still have a couple of years of technical catch-up that we just can’t accelerate any further or faster than we are.
“We still have technical infrastructure that we’re catching up on, most notably our wind tunnel. I’m not going into next year [2022] thinking we’re going to be a championship contender.”
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