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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 1678: Zak Brown | A Formula 1 + IndyCar Conversation

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown joined me at Daytona--a few days before January's Rolex 24 IMSA race--to talk about his Formula 1 journey, overhaul of the Arrow McLaren IndyCar team, favorite race cars, and the fixes he'd make to IndyCar. NEW show stickers and retro racing memorabilia: ThePruettStore.com EVERY episode is graciously supported by the Justice Brothers and TorontoMotorsports.com. If you'd like to join the PrueDay podcast listener group, send an email to pruedayrocks@gmail.com and you'll be invited to participate in the Discord chat that takes place every day and meet up with your new family at IndyCar events. Play on Podbean.com: https://marshallpruett.podbean.com/ Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast [WTI]

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0:00.0

Mr. Brown, we're in Daytona, a place we love.

0:12.0

You're coming to this event coming out of a wild year.

0:17.0

When you took the job at McLaren, we spoke right after that and you looked like a man

0:24.4

who was asked to climb Mount Everest, not by yourself, but the task was tall enough to where,

0:30.1

holy crap, I don't know if we're going to get this to where it needs to be. Give me your thoughts,

0:34.2

personal level, achievement. Did you believe this was something you could do in the time frame you've done today?

0:41.3

What you started?

0:42.3

It was clearly the dream, but dreams don't always come true.

0:47.3

And 2% covers the whole field.

0:49.3

So as I tell people, even the worst team in Formula One is really good to win 14 races this year,

0:56.4

back to Matt constructors, two drivers going into the final race, fighting for the World

1:01.6

Championship, two of the three. We'd like to get it done a little bit earlier. I think we made

1:07.4

it a little bit hard work, but that's racing, made it a little bit more exciting.

1:13.0

You know, kind of yes and no. I mean, how can you ever have so much confidence to go?

1:18.1

Yeah, it's going to happen. It's like, you know, if you're a baseball player, do you think you're going to win the World Series?

1:23.2

That's why you're there. Do it in your heart of your hearts? Like you gotta believe, but until it happens, a lot of people that have tried to win

1:32.3

a little championships or win World Series or Super Bowls, and it just doesn't come together.

1:37.3

So it's been amazing.

1:39.3

Let's talk about these drivers of yours.

1:42.3

Landau, an emotional winner, the very different creature.

1:48.0

Not the big, right?

1:50.2

Not someone who's trying to be all crazy mashum.

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