Zak Brown on running McLaren, billion-dollar deals and his F1 car collection

F1 Beyond The Grid

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News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

A sponsorship guru for more than 20 years, Zak Brown landed his dream job in 2016 when he became executive director, and later CEO, of McLaren – the team he’d supported as an F1-mad kid in California.

On this week’s show, Brown discusses how he’s guiding McLaren back to the front of the grid and why he made the moves he has in the driver market. He also gives us the lowdown on his own racing career, including going toe-to-toe with the likes of Juan Pablo Montoya in F3, discusses his epic F1 car collection, and reveals the mind-blowing amount of sponsorship cash he’s brought into F1…

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0:00.0	The best thing I got on Deepa.
0:01.4	That's a good question.
0:02.4	This really nice 80s Adidas jumper.
0:05.2	The quarter rates which I'm wearing.
0:06.4	This pink mini skirt.
0:08.2	This Jessica Torehari.
0:09.3	Probably my unif choke boots.
0:11.0	This pair of jeans, I wear them all the time.
0:12.6	The main one I'm quite into the moment is extreme layering.
0:15.6	Ranch.
0:16.6	White's okay.
0:17.7	Relaxed grandpa.
0:19.0	Part-time punk, part-time polypocket.
0:20.8	I think co-cat is the word.
0:22.2	Baggy relaxed and a bit out there.
0:24.3	Necher short, I barely short short.
0:26.5	That's like my favourite outfit at the moment.
0:28.7	I got it on Deepa.
0:38.7	Let's start this week's show with a few stats about McLaren.
0:42.5	They finished 9th in the 2017 Constructors Championship.
0:46.6	6th in 2018, 4th in 2019 and they currently live 3rd in 2020.
0:53.5	They're on an impressive upward swing.
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