McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown insists the workforce won’t change their method within the drivers’ championship now that the constructors’ title has been sewn up.
Lando Norris’s third-place end on the Singapore Grand Prix was sufficient for McLaren to wrap up the constructors’ championship at joint-record tempo with six races nonetheless remaining within the 2025 season.
McLaren have been topped constructors’ world champions for the tenth time of their historical past as they efficiently bagged the groups’ trophy for the second 12 months working, having ended a 26-year-old look forward to the title in 2024.
Consideration now turns to the battle within the drivers’ championship, with Oscar Piastri main Norris by 22 factors. Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen sits third, 41 factors behind Norris and 63 adrift of Piastri.
McLaren have been decided to restrict their involvement within the drivers’ title battle and have to date prevented favouring one driver over the opposite, although their administration type has confronted latest criticism.
Though Brown admitted Verstappen is “nonetheless very a lot within the recreation”, he burdened McLaren won’t alter their ‘papaya guidelines’ for the remaining races.
“Whereas we’d prefer it to solely come right down to our two guys, Max continues to be very a lot within the recreation. I feel what has been secret’s that the workforce have remained so centered but in addition very humble,” Brown informed McLaren’s official web site.
“So, we’re simply going to maintain doing what we’re doing. Our technique isn’t going to alter as a result of we’ve received the constructors’, we’re going to method the remaining race weekends in the identical approach we’ve approached each one earlier than it.
“That is what we’re right here to do: win races and win Championships. And we could not be hungrier.”
Can McLaren construct an F1 ‘dynasty’?
Regardless of McLaren’s success in 2025, Brown burdened the main target stays on a race-by-race foundation.
“Can we wish to create a McLaren dynasty and go away a legacy? After all we do,” Brown stated.
“However it’s like Andrea [Stella, team principal] says: ‘You don’t race making an attempt to create a legacy, you present up each weekend, centered on what that you must do this weekend, after which, the outcomes and the historical past books care for themselves.’”
Brown acknowledged that the 2026 regulation shake-up will make a sustained interval of success even more durable to attain.
“Subsequent 12 months, with the brand new rules, goes to be even more durable,” he added.
“This 12 months, we had the advantage of working inside rules that we knew. However we’re now getting into a brand new period, with one of many largest regulation adjustments within the historical past of F1 – that comes with a number of danger and a number of alternative.”
