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Brown: Early McLaren environment 'worse than I thought'
Zak Brown says the state of McLaren's affairs was "worse than I thought it was going to be" when he arrived at Woking and later to the helm of the beleaguered F1 team. Brown was recruited and appointed executive director of the McLaren Technology Group by the group's former chairman Ron Dennis in November of 2016. But following the latter's ousting from McLaren and an operational restructure, Brown became chief executive officer of McLaren Racing in 2018 and was given full rein by the group's shareholders to turn the outfit around. Bogged down by a lack internal organization and by its ill-fated partnership with Honda, McLaren had become but a pale shadow of its former self....
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