McLaren boss Zak Brown against notion of early 2021 F1 driver swap

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says his Formula 1 team has no interest in bringing forward a swap of 2021 drivers for this🐓 season.

With Ferrari opting to replace Aston Martin-bound Sebastian V🐠ettel and sign Carlos Sainz for nex💧t season, McLaren responded by swooping to prize Daniel Ricciardo away from Renault to fill the seat vacated by the Spaniard.

There have been suggestions that all the teams involved could agree to an early contract release to allow the driv𝕴ers to switch to their respective 2021 teams and start getting up to speed.

Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) McLaren MCL35.
Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) McLaren MCL35.
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says his Formula 1 ꦉteam has no interest in bringing forward a ꧃swap of 2021 drivers for this season.

With Ferrari opting to replace Aston Martin-bound Sebastian Vettel and sign Carlos Sainz for next season, McLaren responded by swooping to prize Daniel Ric🥃ciardo away from Renault to fill the seat vacated by the Spaniard.

There have been suggestions that all the teams involved could agree to an early contract release to allow the drivers t🔯o switch to their respective 2021 teams and start getting up toꦯ speed.

But Brown is completely against the notioﷺn because he feels McLaren is benefitting from its current line-up, while riಞval teams are a “bit more destabilised”.

"We're happy with our driver li𒈔ne-up this year," said Brown. "We're happy with everyone else's dri💙ver line-up this year.

"I think we have two dri🌳vers that are doing an excellent job, and some other teams which have disruption in their gar▨age.

"So I think I want to continue the harmonious relationship we have going on ꦰright now.

“And I think if we were to consider changing that, it would maybe only be to the benefit of other teams that are maybe a little bit more destabilised ꦛin the garage."

McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl said he is excited by the prospect of Ricciardo’s impending arrival at 🎉the Woking outfit wh𒊎en discussing the Australian’s strong form this season.

“I wat✨ch him very closely, same as I did before, and I’m happy what I see,” Seidl explained. “You can see also this season h꧂e is a very special driver on the grid.

“He’s continuously pulling off the performances which, knowing that he will join us next year, I’m v෴ery happy about because also next year we will also have a very strong driver line-uܫp which is very important on our journey hopefully back up the order in Formula 1.”

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