Zak Brown’s bizarre McLaren claim: ‘We didn’t have the fastest car for three of our wins’

“Australia was tricky conditions – the other three that we won, we weren’t even the fastest car. We just executed really♛ well.”

Zak Brown
Zak Brown

Zak Brown has claimed McLaren haven't had the fastest car for three of their five wins in F1 2025.

McLaren have enjoyed an impressive start💦 to the 2025 F1 season.

The Miami Grand Prix was their most dominant weekend of the year so far, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell finishing over 30 seconds behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris in second.

McLaren are✤ already 105 points ahead of Mercedes in the 2025 F1 const🐻ructors’ championship fight.

Despite McLaren’s stron♈g start to the year, Brown was keen to downplay their advantageไ.

The McL💟aren CEO suggested they didn’t have the fastest car in three of th🥂e five races they won.

“I know it’s 5 of 6, and technically that’s statistically dominan🐭t,” Brown said. “But✱ I can tell you, having been on pit wall for the wins, this one was obviously one we could control.

“Australia was tricky conditions – the other three that we won, we weren’t even the fastest car. We just executed really well. A lot ෴of racing to go, great to see the gap here, but we’re not taking anything for granted.

“♓But a long way to go. This time last year we were third in the Championship I believe.

“And the team th𝐆at was leading the Championship ended up in third…. tells you there’s a lot of racing left to go.”

Is Brown right about McLaren?

While Nor🍒ris won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix by less than one second, McLaren had a decisive 🌠pace advantage over the rest of the field.

Norris and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri ran over 15 seconds ahead of Verstappen before the Safety Car period caused by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso.

In China,♊ Russell finished 11 sec♊onds off the lead McLaren. 

At Suzuka, V🔯erstappen took the only non-McLaren victory of𒁃 the year.

However, both McLaren drivers felt they had the pace to get ahead of Verstappen but couldn’t ﷺdue to the lack of clean air.

Japan was down to Verstappen’s brilliance rather than ಞcar advantage.

McLaren had the fastest car in Bahrain, with Pia🌳stri winning by𒁏 over 15 seconds.

So far, in 2025, the only race in which M💃cLaren might not have had the fastest cܫar was in Saudi Arabia.

Verstappen pulled away from Piastri when leading the race and finished just a few s🌺econds behind the Australian.

The four-time F1 world champion 🧸would likely have won without his penalty for the incident on the opening lap.

So it’s not up for debate that McLaren ha🔯ve been fastest in five of t🃏he six races this season.

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