{"id":1666309,"date":"2022-09-30T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666309"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:05:50","slug":"motor-racing-american-f1-driver-not-a-necessity-says-mclarens-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/motor-racing-american-f1-driver-not-a-necessity-says-mclarens-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor racing-American F1 driver not a necessity, says McLaren\u2019s Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmotor-racing-american-f1-driver-not-a-necessity-says-mclarens-brown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666309&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Uday Sampath Kumar<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Formula One does not need an American driver to boost the rapid growth of the sport in the United States, McLaren Racing Chief Executive Zak Brown told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Brown\u2019s comments follow the decision by Formula One\u2019s governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) not to relax its super-licence rules so that American IndyCar driver Colton Herta could race for Red Bull\u2019s AlphaTauri team next year.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the sport is going to continue to grow in America with or without an American driver,\u201d Brown, an American himself, said ahead of this weekend\u2019s Singapore Grand Prix.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think an American driver in the sport will be additive, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is a growing market for Formula One both in terms of viewership and money brought in by big corporate sponsors. Its commercial rights are owned by U.S.-based Liberty Media. <\/p>\n<p>The sport, which will have three U.S. races next year, including a new night-time grand prix in Las Vegas, last had a U.S. driver in 2015, with Alexander Rossi.<\/p>\n<p>RULE REVISION?           <\/p>\n<p>Herta, who has previously tested in McLaren\u2019s 2021 F1 car, lacked the necessary points for a super-licence needed to enter Formula One.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect that the rules are the rules, so I don\u2019t think we should be in the business of making exceptions,\u201d Brown said, echoing similar comments from other Formula One team bosses including Mercedes boss Toto Wolff and Haas team principal Guenther Steiner.<\/p>\n<p>However, Brown added that a revision of the rules may be necessary in the future to grant successful IndyCar drivers an easier path into Formula One.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have someone like Herta who is clearly capable of being a Formula One driver, who has been in our Formula One car, who has won lots of races in IndyCar and he doesn\u2019t qualify, you have to look at the rules and question whether the rules should be reviewed again, and I think they should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason why Brown does not think an American driver is necessary for Formula One is because the sport has already made huge inroads with U.S. audiences thanks to the Netflix docu-drama series \u201cDrive to Survive\u201d, which is credited with bringing in new and younger audiences.<\/p>\n<p>The growing U.S. popularity has pulled in a raft of new sponsors to McLaren including Google and Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetflix and the growth of Formula One in America is what put Formula One on their radar,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>The McLaren boss added that he was fielding calls every week from American groups and individuals \u201cvery serious\u201d about investing in Formula One, but that McLaren were currently not looking for any new investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hard part for a future investor is going to be finding a team that\u2019s interested in bringing on investment because the teams are very healthy. That\u2019s ultimately going to drive up the value of the franchise because the demand is far greater than the supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/motor-racing-american-f1-driver\/attachment\/file-photo-british-grand-prix-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8T0NF-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8T0NF-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) \u2013 Formula One does not need an American driver to boost the rapid growth of the sport in the United States, McLaren Racing Chief Executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}