HOCKENHEIM, Germany -- McLaren CEO Zak Brown says the chastening experience of this year's failed entry to the Indy 500 has prompted him to reassess the value of a full season of IndyCar.
After McLaren's humbling failure to qualify for the famous race in May, which followed a string of embarrassing errors made by the team, Brown said he was reluctant to commit to a full IndyCar season in 2020. Critics said McLaren had set themselves up for failure by approaching the 500-mile oval race as a one-off and without the close partnership it enjoyed in 2017, when Alonso entered in a McLaren-Andretti Autosport venture.