Scott Mitchell-Malm
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1,888 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
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going into the new engine rule cycle you were always quite cynical about that and you know the point was always that obviously the potential yield as a works team would always be slight would always be even if it was fractional it would always be higher than that as a customer i think mclaren was broadly aware of that in principle i think in practice the compound gains have ended up bigger
than McLaren expected the problem is there's no way out you can't be a customer and then complain that it turns out you're a customer like that's not how it works if you want to be a works team and have the benefits of a works team be a works team and I asked Zac Brown about this the McLaren Racing CEO in Monaco and he said that
They will look at it when the next set of engine regulations get locked in for 2030 or 2031.
But their number one priority at the moment is to renew with Mercedes and be a customer because it's easier.
It's not as expensive.
There's not as big a risk.
Politically, there's nothing that you need to kind of traverse there if you align with another manufacturer or whatever.
So you...
you kind of can't go for the easy route, the shortcut route really to being a top F1 team and then being annoyed in any way that you're not the number one priority.
And that's not really what McLaren's doing, but it just, it speaks to the dilemma that they're in and where they want to operate in.
And when you understand that background and context, it makes the Brembo response to what Leclerc said in Monaco make a lot more sense because there is that wider kind of political thing going on in the background.
And we know that Leclerc saying he wants to move or will move to Hamilton's configuration from the next race onwards is basically having complained about the brakes not working, switching off, being difficult to get back and all of this.
It makes a little bit less sense.
It's more opaque without that Brembo statement, which then makes it quite clear that there's a bit of an issue there with Brembo being such a long-term partner of Ferrari and sort of being blamed for driver discomfort and issues, but also being kind of quietly...
phased out so they can do some other stuff.
But in making that statement and pushing back on Leclerc's criticism, it brought it much more to the surface and made it a lot more visible.
So it'd be interesting to gauge what the consequences are, if any, on that.
One thing I was very curious about when this first emerged, and certainly in the context of what Leclerc was saying last weekend...
Because I think this is a bit of a smoking gun.
His remark about three of his four breaks basically switching off because they'd lost temperature and he couldn't get them back on.
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