McLaren CEO Brown: 'With upcoming upgrades you are going to see new structure'
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McLaren has had a very tough time since the changes to the regulations in the 2022 season. Whereas in 2021 the British racing stable still managed to grab a win and several podiums, it is now hoping for points finishes. To improve performance, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri 's team has made a number of changes within the organisation.
Prior to the season, it was announced that McLaren team boss Andreas Seidl would move to Alfa Romeo. In his place was Andrea Stella, who became the British racing stable's new team boss. With this choice, the team's CEO Zak Brown is still happy, he told the press conference ahead of the Miami Grand Prix: "You know, at the end of last year, second half of the year, I wasn't happy with the progress we were making, and so when I got the opportunity to put Andrea Stella in as team principal, and he's very technical, was a move I was very happy with."
Brown sees Stella's impact
Stella has now been at the helm of McLaren's team for several months. According to Brown, he is doing his duties well: "First thing I asked him to do was take a look at why we weren't developing at the pace I felt we should, and what he identified was we structurally weren't optimised, so he went about setting out what would the optimum structure look like. Then you populate that org chart, and there were some changes we wanted to then make to optimise the new structure. I think now the upgrades, which will start coming, are starting to show the work of the new structure that we have in place, and hopefully will continue to develop over the course of the year."