McLaren CEO Zak Brown has addressed what McLaren could offer Max Verstappen that Red Bull cannot, although he once again stressed that there is no room for the four-time world champion.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen has been increasingly linked with a possible move to McLaren in recent weeks, despite Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both being on multi-year contracts.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
According to reports, Verstappen’s camp recently initiated talks with the Woking-based outfit, but Brown has outlined that it cannot offer the 28-year-old a race seat.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The four-time world champion is growing increasingly frustrated with Red Bull and has yet to commit his future to the Austrian outfit.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen will be in a position to activate a release clause at the Hungarian Grand Prix before the summer break, which would allow him to quit Formula 1 or move elsewhere for 2027.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
McLaren has made several high-profile signings from Red Bull in recent years, the latest being Verstappen’s long-time race engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Despite Brown’s insistence that Verstappen will not be joining McLaren, the rumours are intensifying rather than going away.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Asked what McLaren could offer Verstappen that Red Bull cannot, Brown responded: “I haven\u2019t really thought about that because I\u2019ve got two drivers in the seats. So, what I couldn\u2019t offer him was a seat in my race car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But I think McLaren\u2019s an awesome team. So is Red Bull, and so is Alpine, and so is Ferrari. The Formula 1 teams are amazing. I think we\u2019ve got a unique environment, but as do all race teams.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But we\u2019ve got a great race team that\u2019s had a lot of success, and I think it\u2019s a good place to work, whether you\u2019re a racing driver or a team principal or a mechanic, or whatever you may be at team McLaren.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren CEO Zak Brown has addressed what McLaren could offer Max Verstappen that Red Bull cannot, although he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-797441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797441","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=797441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}