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Brown has massive expectations for his drivers after the summer break
The 2024 season for McLaren has been a hugely successful one for the British team so far. As they enter the summer break, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have earned a race win each, and their fantastic consistency means they sit in P2 and P4 in the drivers' standings, respectively. Thanks to those points, they also sit just 42 points behind Red Bull in the constructors' standings, highlighting the potential for them to earn two titles when F1 returns at the Dutch Grand Prix, and that is what Zak Brown wants his team to achieve.
Brown says drivers' and constructors' titles are "both priorities"
While the gap between Red Bull and McLaren sits at 42 points going into the month-long break, the gap between Max Verstappen and Norris at the top of the drivers' standings is a lot bigger, with 78 points being the margin between the two drivers. It poses the question: should McLaren focus heavily on the potential to win the Constructors' Championship?
Not according to the McLaren CEO, who said both the drivers' and the constructors' titles are "both priorities" to his team and showing the huge intentions that McLaren will come out with when the F1 circus comes to Zandvoort at the end of August.
Speaking to Sky Sports at the McLaren factory, Brown continued by saying: "Ultimately, to win the constructors', we need our two drivers to be as high up as possible. I'd like to see both drivers in the top three. We've got second and fourth right now. The closer we get to the drivers, the closer that'll get us to the Constructors'. So we're going for both because all points count."
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