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Brown: McLaren needed to be 'less Vader, more Skywalker'
McLaren CEO Zak Brown has been talking about the 'unhealthy' state the team found itself in by the end of 2016 during its ill-fated, short-lived partnership with Honda. When Ron Dennis departed as team principal following a boardroom power struggle, Brown came in as executive director and found a dispirited workforce at a very low ebb. “What I walked into was a team very much on the decline in almost every aspect,” he told Motorsport.com this week. "Race results, the facts are the facts: we were ninth in the championship. "That then manifested itself into a very unhappy workforce, so when you walked around the shop, heads were down, not up." Read also: McLaren turns...
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