McLaren F1 chief Zak Brown has called on Liberty Media to address the elephant in the room namely balance the playing field through cost-cutting while warning that Formula 1 is broken on a couple of vital fronts.
In an interview with the media outlet he chairs, Brown said, "We know change in F1 is difficult, and we also know F1 today is a broken model, both as a business and as an on-track product, that is going to need to be changed."
"Those that are winning today will obviously feel the compromise about what is happening, and those are not winning today are going to like the plan.
"It was inevitable that Chase [Carey] would bring forward a plan that some people like and some people don't like. But he needs to move forward with what he thinks is in the best interest of the sport."
"At the end of the day, what is in the best interests of the sport in the long term is in the best interests of everyone, if people can get past the short-term compromises that they need to make. I think today's F1, if it is stays as is, I think everyone eventually loses," added Brown.
The American marketing guru turned team boss knows that as things stand currently at McLaren, a Renault customer team, winning in this era is all but impossible unless future rules reduce the gap between the haves and the have-nots in the top flight.
Brown revealed the status of discussions between stakeholders, “They have been consistent since Bahrain in their vision and direction of the sport, the budget cap, and the revenue distribution."
“We’ve not got a lot into governance, their desire strategically of where they want to take the sport, so I think various teams are looking at different levels.
“I think the majority of the teams are supportive of what was presented in Bahrain and all that has really happened since now and then was drilling deeper – what is in the budget cap and what isn’t in the budget cap?”
“I know that not all the teams are aligned but I think a majority are. At McLaren, we are very supportive of what was presented in Bahrain and I think the sooner we can get that on the road to implementation the better.
“I believe Chase and Ross are going to move forward on that basis and I think that is their plan. For anyone else saying that they are not aligned with it, their view is ‘we presented it in Bahrain, we’ve been working together."
"We’ve been consistent on where we are going so this is what we are doing.’ I think some people haven’t accepted that yet," added Brown, apparently with reference to Mercedes or Ferrari or both.
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