Departures of Key and Seidl, results at half mast: McLaren is going in circles!

Making something new out of something old is the solution that Zak Brown, general manager, found to relaunch the McLaren machine. But is it really by recreating a technical troika that is the cause of all the problems in the past that Woking will regain its former glory?

Published on 25/03/2023 à 13:25

Jean-Michel Desnoues

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Departures of Key and Seidl, results at half mast: McLaren is going in circles!

What's wrong with McLaren? © Florent Gooden / DPPI

It is a major crisis which is shaking the British team; a crisis which is reminiscent of that experienced at the end of the 2010 decade. After years of chaos, of disappointed hopes, of mistakes that we throw in our faces, the Honda episode was then ended with a painful divorce at the end of 2017. But to definitively turn the page, to find a little serenity, it was necessary to go further, to find expiatory victims.

It was necessary to fire sporting director Eric Boullier, technical director Tim Goss and head of engineering Matt Morris. Of the technical troika in place, only the chief aerodynamicist Peter Prodr

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25/03/2023 at 02:04 a.m.

As a certain Carlos T. says, the organization is at the service of performance and if it is not performing well, it must be changed! Not sure that this reassures Lando Norris who signed a very long-term contract with McLaren...

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