Zak Brown
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As a leader, you don't need to be an expert at everything.
You need to be an expert on people and motivation and giving people the resources they need.
I can't possibly know everything about a Formula One team.
It was a mess.
The team was disgruntled.
A lot of politics.
Fans weren't happy.
We didn't have many sponsors.
What sponsors we had weren't happy.
As I say, other than that, everything was great.
We had record low sponsorship.
We were coming off our worst season in the history of McLaren.
It was 35 points or something crazy.
I got ninth in the championship.
But what I knew we had was a great brand that needed to be kind of rejuvenated.
And I knew we had great people because we have over a thousand people.
And at that point, over 20 championships.
So it was like, we've got great people and a great brand.
That's a good starting point.
And that's exactly what I started on, was the brand.