Brundle sees McLaren duo stand out: 'Yin and yang working'

Former Formula 1 driver and commentator Martin Brundle recently weighed in on McLaren's team leaders. Last weekend at the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, McLaren won the constructors' championship—one they haven't won since 1998.

In his post-Abu Dhabi column for Sky Sports, former driver Martin Brundle sees the duo of Zak Brown and Andrea Stella hugely responsible for McLaren's recent success. The Woking-based team could produce a great turnaround over these two seasons, earning them their first constructors' title in the 2000s.

Zak Brown, McLaren Racing's CEO, and Andrea Stella, Team Principal, have worked hard this season to secure the world constructors championship. Brundle believes that it is the yin and yang dynamic that works so well between the two. "Zak is the can-do, strongly commercially minded petrolhead and enthusiast, and Andrea is the calm, pragmatic one with a longstanding technical background and is equally highly respected. Definitely, yin and yang working in unison there."

Together Brown and Stella have made a potent Formula 1 team that was able to win the battle with Ferrari. Brundle says, "They both engender loyalty and a strong following and it has worked very well in galvanising a great workforce along with the right tools and equipment, all properly funded, into one cohesive force."

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