Forever Forward
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Get an inside look at the revolutionary story of McLaren, one of Formula One's most successful teams, with a foreword by McLaren CEO Zak Brown.
Few names in motorsports carry the same authority as McLaren. With their remarkable victory in the 2024 constructors championship, they are now returning to form in a spectacular way under the leadership of Zak Brown. Going into 2023, Brown's team were the second slowest on the grid, only to end it as arguably the second fastest, after a dramatic mid-season turnaround. In 2024, their driver Lando Norris achieved his first ever Grand Prix win in Miami, and McLaren fiercely competed for podiums against Ferrari and Red Bull.
Zak Brown took over a failing team from Ron Dennis in 2018, and his strategic vision is now seeing results. McLaren are on the rise again, looking to a future that will echo its hallowed past and legendary drivers James Hunt, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna, and Lewis Hamilton.
With access to the team's inner sanctum, seasoned sports journalist Ben Hunt shares this exhilarating account that delves deep into McLaren's history, revealing how their rich heritage forms the core of their identity today before taking us behind the scenes to give us the inside track on their extraordinary resurgence. Guided by the motto "Forever Forward," McLaren has a tradition of coming back from adversity time and time again to take the checkered flag against all the odds. Here they go again.
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Ben Hunt has worked in motorsports for twelve years and co-hosts the F1 podcast Inside the Piranha Club. He is the author of Lando Norris: A Biography (2023) and the Sunday Times bestseller Growing Wings: The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing (2024), published in six languages. In a twenty-year career in sports journalism, he has previously reported on Premier League football, Ashes tests, snooker championships, and Ryder Cups.
Zak Brown is the Chief Executive Officer of McLaren Racing. Born and raised in California, Zak raced professionally for 10 years before developing his skills in motorsport's business and commercial worlds. In 1995, he founded Just Marketing International, which grew to become a hugely successful motorsport marketing agency. Since joining the McLaren team in 2016, Zak has taken McLaren Racing onto a global motorsport stage with his energy, his relentless work ethic, and his knowledge of the business and history of motorsport.