Zak Brown has described the situation he walked into McLaren at as “worse than I thought it was going to be” following the team’s revival under his watch.

The American joined in November 2016 at a time when one of the most storied teams in the sport was at its lowest. The team, with Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button driving for them, finished sixth in the Constructors’ Championship and suffered nine retirements across the season.

The year later, the downward spiral continued as they slumped to ninth in the 2017 Championship.

Brown, among others, has been credited for overturning both the team’s fortunes as well as the work ethic at the McLaren Technology Centre but the 50-year-old has admitted that when he first walked in there, it was worse than he had expected.

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