McLaren’s CEO Discusses the Impact of Verstappen’s Damaging Dominance on Formula 1

• Red Bull has dominated the 2023 Formula 1 season so far
• The Milton Keynes team have won all 12 races and sprints this season
• Max Verstappen has won 10 of the 12 races of the 2023 season

Red Bull Racing's unprecedented dominance has highlighted the 2023 Formula 1 season. Never in the 72-year history of the sport has any team dominated a season like the Austrian team.

Driver, Max Verstappen, has spearheaded the charge for the Milton Keynes side, having already won 10 of the 12 races contested this season.

During this course, Verstappen surpassed the record for consecutive race wins– seven held by Alberto Ascari, Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher and a win at his home Grand Prix in Zandvoort, which appears a certainty given his current run of form would see him go level with Sebastian Vettel on the all time list of consecutive race wins per reports from Sportingnews.com.

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Verstappen's unprecedented dominance has got many stakeholders and fans of the sport talking, and McLaren's CEO Zak Brown is the latest to air his somewhat critical view.

Zak Brown on Red Bull's dominance

The McLaren CEO, who has seen his team rise through the ranks and become one of the teams to beat in the 2023 season, has not held back his thoughts.

Speaking to ESPN, the 51-year-old said:

Verstappen's talent is what's turning Red Bull's advantage into dominance.

"As much as Red Bull's killing everyone right now... it's really Max is killing everyone right now," Brown said.

"That Max, Red Bull combination is just unbeatable at the moment, and Max and the team isn't making any mistakes.

"If they had two Sergios in the car, with all due respect, this championship would kind of be wide open. So you've got something pretty special going on with Max and Red Bull."

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While Red Bull continues to enjoy comfortable victories out in front of the grid order, the fight behind has featured regular changes to the competitive order, and the second half of the season promises to produce loads of feisty battles as teams are reported to come up with loads of upgrades.

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Meanwhile, Sports Brief previously reported on former Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto potentially taking over at Alpine in the place of Otmar Szafnauer.

The French team are looking for a new principal and believes Binotto is their man. He was at the Belgian Grand Prix and stayed for a post-race Pirelli tyre test.