{"id":848891,"date":"2026-08-09T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848891\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:56:09","slug":"mclaren-chief-signals-major-team-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848891\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren chief signals major team &#8216;change&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren racing director Randeep Singh has outlined the significant change the squad has installed en route to returning to a championship-winning position.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Woking-based squad was long run by Ron Dennis, who enjoyed title success of his own during his long reign.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>However, the team suffered a significant slip in the pecking order in the early years of the turbo-hybrid era, before Dennis departed his role in late 2016.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Zak Brown became the CEO of McLaren and began navigating a new commercial chapter for the outfit.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he promoted Andrea Stella to the role of team principal in 2023 and ever since, McLaren has enjoyed a meteoric rise, peaking with a double-title success last year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Singh has outlined that there is no \u201cblame culture\u201d within the squad, a direct impact of the current leadership structure.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main thing is just the leadership changed with Andrea and Zak, and I think that&#8217;s just empowered everyone to go about their jobs,\u201d Singh told Sky F1.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s no blame. I don&#8217;t know how easy it is to look over that.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you&#8217;re doing things that are quite stressful that can go the wrong way because they&#8217;re based off percentages, like doing the strategy, you sometimes get caught up in thinking, &#8216;oh, what will people think if I make a mistake&#8217;.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s none of that here. You just get on with constantly improving. You don&#8217;t worry if there&#8217;s a bad result.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there&#8217;s a bad decision, obviously you try and dig into it and try and understand it and improve.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut seriously, there&#8217;s no blame whatsoever. You come out of races where there&#8217;ve been mistakes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood things, bad things, and you treat them the same way. So that&#8217;s really empowering.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren racing director Randeep Singh has outlined the significant change the squad has installed en route to returning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843478,"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-848891","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\/848891","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=848891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}