Brown knows what needs to be done to keep Norris.

Zach Brown believes McLaren’s mid-season progress was crucial in itself, but also because Lando Norris received strong confirmation of the team’s capabilities, which he has been with since 2019.

Norris is regarded as one of the championship’s most talented racers, and he is linked to McLaren by a long-term contract, but it was rumored that he was a bit tired of the many problems and was thinking about moving to another team .

“I think this is all extremely important for all of us because it shows that we can achieve our goal,” the McLaren CEO said in an interview with ESPN. – However, Norris has not yet opened the scoring with us. He loves McLaren, this is his family, so I have no doubt that he would like to win the title with our team.

I think the best thing we can do to keep him is to show our capabilities. It’s not about whether you should be courting him in any way or not – it’s about giving him a car, which he would have received to himself: team can win the world championship.”

Andrea Stella, who succeeded James Key as McLaren technical director, is reforming the team’s technical department, David Sanchez departs from Ferrari and Rob Marshall from Red Bull Racing. And more recently, a new wind tunnel was commissioned at the Woking base.

“We’re already starting to work on it after the summer break,” Brown confirmed. Everything is ready for this, it just needs a little more time to debug everything. Now we have a wind tunnel, a new simulator and an updated production site. The team is stable and soon our talented specialists will be joined by new ones. We have all the necessary financial resources.

It just takes us a little more time to show real progress. In 2026 there will be a huge reboot in Formula 1 and then we will have no more excuses. As long as Norris sees that we have the speed and we continue to develop, I think he will be confident in the team’s ability to win championships.”