Next year McLaren are spreading their wings beyond Formula 1 as they begin an era in which they return to Indycar next year and in 2021 they are looking likely to embark on a FIA World Endurance Championship programme within the much-anticipated Hypercar rules. Exciting projects, but many in the paddock question if the Woking outfit have not bitten off more they can chew, in the aftermath of the company's worst PR nightmare when they failed to qualify Fernando Alonso for the Indianapolis 500 in May. The post-mortem of the month of their Brickyard project revealed a slew of bad decisions and a catalogue of embarrassing failings that can only be put down to laissez-faire management style...
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