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[eibyyz]

In this case it’s 99% to get settled. Plenty of reliable reporters state that McLaren are not long for Indycar and Palou will undoubtedly be advised to accept defeat and pay up substantially less than McLaren were talking about previously.

 

Yet in the IndyCar 2025 thread it's posited that Macca has so much sponsor money coming into F1 that Zak is palming some of the bux off to his IndyCar team.  Huh.

[pacificquay]

McLaren have been clear they are committed to IndyCar and Formula E despite the click-baity speculative articles 

[jonpollak]

So dude was talking out of his…. (Cross thread alert)

Jp

[pup]

Does anyone think that Bortoleto’s graduation to F1 undermines Palou’s argument that McLaren was no longer able to get him into F1 after they hired Piastri? Granted, Sauber isn’t what he had in mind, but McLaren can at least show that they’ve moved one of their development drivers into the sport.

Edited by pup, 02 February 2025 - 21:59.

[Lennat]

Wasn't it basically just that Audi wanted Bortoleto and made some kind of offer to McLaren? It wasn't that McLaren "got" him the seat as far as I know.