車手陣容如下
WEC
#5 Dane Cameron USA, Michael Christensen DEN, Frédéric Makowiecki FRA
#6 Kévin Estre(亞斯提) FRA, André Lotterer GER (今年同時兼項FE Andretti), 大雲科爾 BEL
IMSA
#6 Dane Cameron USA, Mathieu Jaminet FRA, Nick Tandy GBR
#7 Matt Campbell AUS, Michael Christensen DEN, Felipe Nasr (拿斯亞) BRA
Stella moved to McLaren in 2015 and has served as head of race operations, performance director and most recently racing director.
Zak Brown revealed after releasing Seidl the promotion of Stella was a no brainer.
“After some good conversations, Andrea kindly accepted the role, which then put us in a very comfortable position to move forward,” he said.
“Because Andrea was always our number one choice to lead the team moving forward, that all came together quite rapidly.”
Stella: His own man
On his appointment Stella revealed, “I think my style will be a hands-on type of Team Principal. I think the opportunity that we have is that I’ve have been dealing with and exposed to the engineering and racing elements of Formula 1 throughout my career.”
Yet today Zak Brown suggests he will take a more operational role than during the Seidl era.
“I will certainly lean in more where Andrea would like my support,” said Brown. However, Brown should ensure he leaves the technical side of managing the team to Stella and not meddle given the Italian’s experience.
Brown sounds defensive
Brown appears to feel the need to explain the leadership team has not been weakened with the departure of Seidl.
“I think we will find good ways of working and I would say we have not gone from three people to two people, we have gone from 850 people to 849 people.
“Therefore, it is quite a large organisation where I think there is a tremendous amount of talent in the team and these are opportunities for everybody to step up.
Whether Brown’s additional involvement in operational matters will stifle Stella’s vision of the future is yet to be seen. The reality is Brown is a big personality and to ensure tensions do not develop he needs ton allow Stella to be his own man.