In recent years a move to McLaren has been a bad mistake for young drivers, but in the Zak Brown led era he believes that Fernando Alonso os a better example of how drivers can thrive with the once mighty team. Kevin Magnussen, Sergio Perez and Stoffel Vandoorne – all promising young drivers when they walked in the door at Woking – did not last wrong. All departing the door with reputations in tatters and forced to resurrect their careers. But talking to media at a recent event at the team's HQ, Brown believes he has bucked the trend within the team he now leads, “I think Alonso is a better example of how McLaren operates today. Obviously, when Fernando was here ten years ago...
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