{"id":294654,"date":"2025-11-19T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294654\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:46:09","slug":"on-mclarens-rise-keeping-the-team-on-top-and-papaya-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294654\/","title":{"rendered":"On McLaren&#8217;s rise, keeping the team on top and papaya rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a> was at a low competitive and commercial ebb, locked in a toxic cycle of mutual recrimination with its engine partner, Honda, and struggling to attract high-value sponsors \u2013 and retain existing ones.<\/p>\n<p>Behind-the-scenes boardroom intrigue would soon result in the ousting of Ron Dennis, whose drive and punctilious attention to detail had defined the team since the 1980s. Chief executive Jost Capito, a recent high-profile recruit from Volkswagen Motorsport, barely had time to warm his seat before he was out, too.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2016 McLaren was at a low competitive and commercial ebb, locked in a toxic cycle of mutual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,169175,913,85,169174],"class_list":["post-294654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-keeping-the-team-on-top-and-papaya-rules","tag-mclaren","tag-sports","tag-zak-brown-interview-on-mclarens-rise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}