Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing, has defended the Woking-based team’s trialling of a new nose at Mugello which was inspired by the Mercedes W11. McLaren drew flak for copying Mercedes' design, with critics arguing that it was hypocritical of the team to develop and run the nose as they had filed an appeal to the FIA over Racing Point’s Mercedes-inspired rear brake ducts. READ: Renault Explain Why They Decided To Stay In Formula One However, as Brown stressed, there are key differences between their Mercedes-inspired nose design and what Racing Point did. 'Well, one, it is an experimental nose. Two, everything we do at McLaren we design and produce ourselves,” Brown said in a recent...
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