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Zak Brown says the McLaren brand and its visibility are undergoing big changes which will include an all-new livery for its 2018 charger.
After parting ways with Honda, McLaren is on the verge of a new dawn with engine partner Renault, but a new power unit won’t be the only change in store at the Woking-based outfit, according to Brown.
“The car’s not going to look the same as last year,” the McLaren boss told Motorsport.com.
“Our whole brand, the visibility of McLaren, is going to go to the next level and it’s going to be exciting.
“We know what a lot of the other teams are going to look like, but hopefully people will see the biggest change on and off the track at McLaren going into Australia.”
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For its 2018 livery, McLaren teased a return of the team’s historical papaya color, a request from the fan community, but Brown isn’t giving anything away.
“There will be some nod to our history but we’re not done with the livery yet because a lot of that is sponsor dependent,” said the American executive.
A sign of the times, McLaren has struggled to secure a title sponsor since Vodafone’s departure in 2013. Brown’s commercial approach however is to keep the McLaren name and brand isolated in the future.
“We do need a title-level partner, all I’ve done is dropping the vernacular of title into principal and have looked at all of our commercial assets, which is not just the race car, it’s our other forms of racing and things like our building and war rooms and things of that nature, and have looked at what’s the best way to commercialise the world of McLaren,” he said.
“Going through that exercise developed a plan that doesn’t require a ‘title partner’.
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