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Brown: How the Covid-19 crisis gave McLaren a crucial lifeline
©McLaren Phillip van Osten
22/08/2025 at 16:0722/08/2025 at 14:52 McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown has revealed how the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, while devastating for the world and the sport, provided his team with the unexpected opportunity it desperately needed to survive. The global crisis, he says, created the conditions to push through a stricter budget cap that ultimately saved McLaren from financial collapse. By 2020, McLaren was on shaky ground. Struggling to keep pace with the heavyweight spending of Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull, the team faced an uncertain future. Then the pandemic hit, forcing Formula 1 to confront its own fragility as Brown explained recently on the...
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