McLaren CEO Zak Browꦑn꧋ says the team is considering entering Formula E when its new generation of car is introduced in 2023.

T𒊎he team is currently unable to compete in the championship as McLaren Applied has been the series’ battery supไplier since 2018.

2023 will see Formula E introduce its Gen 3 car a🅺nd the batteries for it will be supplied by Williams Advanced Engineering.

“We’ve been precluded from competing in Formu🦩la E because we were the battery supplier,” Brown said. “So within that FIA tender, we’re no💖t allowed to compete as a team.

“With the new generation ca🏅r coming in 2023 and us no longer being the exclusive battery supplier, that’s a racing series that we find very interesting. So that’s something that we👍 are starting to look at more closely."

In the last month, Audi⛄ and BMW have announced they would be withdrawing from Formula E at the end of the 2020/21 season.

When asked whether it was a concern major manufacturers were leaving the series, he said: “Of course you have 🎀to ask your✅self why. But it’s deep with manufacturers support. So I’m ultimately not concerned. But you do get to the bottom of why have they left.

“Any time teams or manufactu💝rers leave a series, you have to ask why. I don’t know. Obviously, Audi’s announced that they’re going and getting in Dakar and LMDh, so that’s great. With them being in the same family as Porsche and Porsche being in there maybe their strategy is Porsche should do that, Audi should be somewhere else.

“It started off being very inexpensive and then it skyrocketed, which is what happens. N💮ow it looks like they’re going to cap that quickly before it further gr🧔ows.”

McLaren returned to IndꦛyCar full-time in 2020 as it linked up with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports to form Arrow McLaren SP.

Brown says McLaren is 🀅keeping its optio🍬n as it considers the World Endurance Championship or Formula E as potential championships to compete in.

"Those two series have our attention, and we want to get through this season, we want to make sure that a♏nything we do is not a distrac🤪tion to our Formula 1 efforts," Brown added.

"We layered In IndyCar, and I think we've had a very successful year after a bumpy start in 2019. Those two are something that we're looking at. [It is] the same criܫteria that we have on IndyCar: do we think we can be competitive? Do we think it's commercially and fiscally sustainable? Do we think it fits our brand?

"I think both those series tick all those 🎃boxes,𒐪 so it's all about layering them in from a timing perspective if we're going to do either."