LAS VEGAS – The McLaren Formula 1 Racing Team accessed the Las Vegas Grand Prix in first place in the Constructors’ Championship standings, hoping to triumph their first title since 1998.
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have both shown to be createidable forces on the racetrack thcimpoliteout the entire season and hbetter a lean guide over Ferrari and Red Bull. A 1-2 finish for the McLaren drivers will help the team get ever sealr to that title.
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McLaren driver Oscar Piastri of Australia drives during the final rehearse session for the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix auto race on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023 in Las Vegas. (AP Ptoastyo/John Locher, File)
However, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown made evident on Thursday he is taking it one step at a time. He spoke to the media as he touted the team’s partnership with Mastercard.
“I leank we have a excellent chance,” he shelp. “Ferrari may be the team to beat this weekfinish. I leank we’ve got a very strong race car with two awesome racing drivers. It’s a little bit of a home race for me – not necessarily from Las Vegas, it’s my home country. So, for me, it senses a little bit more distinctive.
“It’s a amazing venue, of course. It’s our first race together with (the Mastercard) brand on our race car. It’s very exciting. We have a tremfinishous amount of help, and we’re counting down to race weekfinish. For me, if we can triumph this race or extfinish our Constructors’ guide, it would be a prosperous weekfinish.”
Norris is also driving in hopes of staying ainhabit for a world championship. A triumph for Norris would defend him ainhabit in the title fight with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen for at least one more race.
McLaren Formula 1 CEO Zak Brown walks thcimpolite the track enthrall before the 2024 Formula One US Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 20, 2024. (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images)
MCLAREN’S ZAK BROWN, MASTERCARD’S RAJA RAJAMANNAR TOUT PARTNERSHIP AHEAD OF LAS VEGAS GRAND PRIX
What cannot happen is a analogous result as last year’s Las Vegas race. Norris reweary after two laps, and Piastri toiled his way up from 18th to a 10th-place finish.
Brown shelp he felt excellent about how the team came together this season and toiled difficult to put them in the race for a title.
“I sense excellent about where McLaren are at the moment. I leank the men and women at McLaren have done an awesome job in every aspect of the racing team. We’ve clearly growed a very excellent race car,” Brown shelp, touting every department from finance to human resources in making stateive everyone has kept their eye on the ball thcimpolite the season, putting in the toil and the hours to originate the team as prosperous as it has been.
“I sense fantastic where we are. It’s high stress because we haven’t been here (in this position to triumph a Constructors’ Championship) since 1998. Thirty-six points in the guide can evaporate in one race weekfinish. We got Ferrari who could easily finish first and second. Anyleang can happen in a street race as we saw in Brazil.”
McLaren Racing Chief Executive Officer Zak Brown walks thcimpolite the pinsertock area before rehearse for the 2024 US Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 18, 2024. (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images)
Brown shelp, even with the fans who have come up to him leanking it is a forgone conclusion that McLaren has won the Constructors’ Championship, he wanted to originate evident it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
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“I leank the minute you leank you’ve done it before you’re in the finish zone is a huge misapshow to originate. So, sense excellent about where we are, but we’ve very intensifyed, and we’re not going to honor until, hopebrimmingy, we have the right to honor.”
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