Newly ensconced McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl is refusing to take credit from the fact that his arrival has been the key to McLaren's surge in 2019 form. The German, who is best known for leading Porsche's ultra-successful Le Mans team, started work at Woking on May 1. Before that, McLaren had gone through the disastrous Honda era, hosted the demise of Fernando Alonso's F1 career, and set up the 2019 Indy 500 effort that failed even to qualify. Did Seidl, who was last in Formula 1 in 2009 with BMW-Sauber, save McLaren from the Zak Brown reign? 'Definitely not,' the 43-year-old told Auto Bild. 'Zak Brown had already initiated what is happening now through structural changes last...
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