McLaren boss Zak Brown opens up on struggling to find sponsors

McLaren is finding it hard to attract sponsorship for the 2019 season. 

Recent poor performance has led to a lack of interest which is strange considering the history of the team. 

When speaking about the sponsorship issue Zak Brown said “It’s as hard as it’s ever been," when speaking to f1today.net. 

"Cooperations are a bit nervous to invest long term because they are not quite sure if something happens over here what does that mean. It does put everything into a bit of a slowdown and holding pattern.” 

Despite the issue, McLaren was successful in signing some sponsors last year. 

"We were fortunate to bring on about five new partners last year, and we’ll announce another at least two this month that we’ve signed so we are making good progress,” he said. “It certainly hasn’t come to a stop but it’s slowed things down and some of the craziness that’s going on around the world doesn’t help.”

Many teams based in the UK are worried about the potential impacts of Brexit and perhaps this sponsorship hesitation could be due to this as well.