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Brown: McLaren IndyCar effort looking more likely

09:01, 13 Jun 2018

byJake Williams-Smith

Zak Brown says a future in IndyCar for McLaren is looking more likely but the team is still exploring the full extent of what an entry could take. McLaren teamed up with the Andretti for the 2017 Indy 500 with Fernando Alonso making the jump last season in a one-off event.

The McLaren CEO confirmed that the team is indeed looking at a possible entry into IndyCar and that a possible full-time entry to the sport could be on the cards after more extensive research has been completed.

“We’re seriously considering IndyCar, we’ve been doing some due diligence for quite some time.

“As stated before, if we’re going to get into other forms of motorsport which McLaren has a great history in, we need to do it in a way that first and foremost doesn’t compromise our Formula 1 activities, or we wouldn’t consider it.

“It needs to be commercially viable, something we feel we can be competitive in, and fits our brand. It has to tick all of those boxes, not most of those boxes.

“We’re not done yet with our due diligence, but it’s looking favorable. So we’ll take a decision in order to be prepared for 2019 sometime in the upcoming months, and if we’re confident we can tick those boxes, then it’s something we’ll probably move forward on. But we’re not done with the journey yet.”