For a long time, the figure of Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren and former boss for many years of Fernando Alonso, appears in the specialized motor media only to complain, about others of course.
The resounding failure of the car that McLaren, with Zak Brown, offered to the Spaniard for the Indianapolis 500. Of course, that was not his fault, but the Woking factory, nor that the American did not work there, since at that time he was the executive director of the brand.
Now Brown, a marketing and management expert, has chosen to attack Fernando Alonso to value his pupil and personal bet, the English pilot Lando Norris. Gone seems to be when Zak Brown himself said that Alonso, due to his professionalism in Indy, had shown why he was a two-time world champion, or the flattery and flowers he gave him when the Spaniard managed to get McLaren to recover some dignity and go from ninth to sixth during the painful time with Honda.
Now that Fernando is no longer at McLaren it seems that Brown has forgotten all about it. According to his latest statements, the two-time world champion is as good as any other F1 driver, among them, of course, his driver Lando Norris, who, according to what he continues to say, is even better than the Asturian.
The truth is that it seems unbelievable that a man with so many careers and great prizes behind him can say something like that. First, because not all F1 drivers have two championships in this category, one more in Endurance and a memorable participation in the Dakar, as Fernando has. No Zak, not all the drivers on the F1 grid are the same, they are all very good but they are not the same.
And if we start making comparisons, which in most cases are hateful, Lando Norris being a fantastic driver, for now, nothing has to do against Alonso’s record. The English rider has 4 podium finishes at the age of 24, the age at which Fernando had already won a World Cup and was preparing to win the second in a row. Fernando Alonso’s first victory was in 2003 when the Spaniard was only 22 years old, so the Briton is already late for the numbers of today’s Aston Martin driver.
In addition, if we take a look at Lando Norris’s numbers when he was Fernando’s teammate, the Briton was always behind, something that has happened to Alonso almost always, only in the last year with Ocon Alonso has had worse numbers than his teammates of team
It is clear that talking about Alonso sells but this time Brown is wrong in his comparison, in addition to demonstrating a significant lack of memory and respect for one of the best drivers in history.
