Lando Norris, for example, has recently signed a contract extension with McLaren that will keep him with the team for another four seasons.
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McLaren’s “right people” have committed their future to the team with long-term contracts, according to Zak Brown. Lando Norris, for example, has recently signed a contract extension with McLaren that will keep him with the team for another four seasons. Brown, the McLaren CEO, was upbeat about all aspects of the Formula 1 team’s potential as they unveiled their MCL36, which he hopes will put them in contention for World Championships in the coming years once all of their infrastructure, which is still a work in progress, is in place.
That will be the final stage of McLaren’s project, because Brown has no concerns about the team’s personnel, which includes drivers Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo, as well as team principal Andreas Seidl.
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“We have all the resources we need,” Brown told the official Formula 1 website. “All our CapEx projects are well under way, we’ve got two great drivers who aren’t inexpensive. Myself, Andreas and all of our leadership team have all signed up for the long term.”
“So we have what we need, we are very focused, we have the right people, the right investment, the right shareholders, the right drivers. Now we just need a little bit of time.”
That will be the time when McLaren completes their wind tunnel and simulator, which they see as critical in their efforts to compete for championships. “We want to keep going forward,” added Brown. “I think we are now playing, on an annual basis, on a level playing field, but we still have technology infrastructure we are catching up on.”
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“Our wind tunnel’s not yet complete – heavily under construction. Our simulator’s not yet complete, so we still don’t have all the toys, if you like, that some of the other teams have. So I think until we have those, we have a little bit of an infrastructure technical deficit and all you have to be off is this much (illustrates a small amount) to take yourself out of World Championship contention.I think realistically coming in here, and what we do every year, is we are just trying to get better every year and then hopefully in not too long we can have expectations of trying to fight for the World Championship,” he continued.
