McLaren Rising President denies the provision of “false promises” to the driver Alex Palo

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McLaren Rising CEO Zach Brown He denied in court that along a star driver in the American Indycar competition, through the expression of the possibility of a formula 1 seat to recruit it in the team.

Brown was witnessing at the London Supreme Court on Tuesday through a 20.7 million dollar lawsuit, McLaren prepared the tournament driver Alex Palau for his alleged violation of the contract. She claims that Palu, 28, a four -time winner in Indicar, was distributed to a deal to lead the Indycar team in McLaren after accepting a “big money offering” to stay with his competitors Chip Ganassi Racing.

Under the interrupted examination of Palu’s lawyer, Nick de Marco Ki ​​CC, Brown told the court that he had never wandered along Palu and that his assumption was that the driver believes that McLaren Indicar would be a “big team”.

McLaren President, Which made 37 million pounds sterling In 2024, he denied that in the past he used “false promises” for the F1 to beat Indycar drivers.

The lawsuit comes as Brown Supervising a shift In the UK -based McLaren F1, the Benin Championship was concluded for the second year in a row in the Grand Prix in Singapore on Sunday. The team’s contestants – Australia Oscar Plastry Britain Lando Norris – lead the search for drivers this year.

While McLaren is famous for its exploits F1Braun put his attention on Indycar. The group acquired the majority stake in the Indycar team in 2021 and bought the remaining stocks in late 2024. However, the collapse of a deal to bring Palou brought horror in McLaren. Palo won the Indycar title in his second season only in 2021 and won his fourth title this year.

Paul Golding Ki CC, for McLaren, said in written arguments that the star’s driver “decided with sarcastic that the great money was offered to stay with CGR was more important than honoring his contract.”

He said that McLaren “decreased in the situation of crises by Mr. Balo’s intentional violation of the contract. His illegal actions caused deep terror among McLaren’s sponsors, whose expectations were set aside overnight.”

“McLaren had to find an alternative driver in a short notice, yet no one was available to Mr. Palou. Shepherds withholding payments in the wake of Mr. Palou’s transformation and abundantly explained to McLaren that care agreements must be distributed.”

But Palou lawyers argue that McLaren’s claim is “largely inflated” and refer to a “barefoot attempt” to take Mr. Palu to cleaners.

“McLaren sought to lie on the door of Mr. Palo, a series of remote, speculative and unprecedented losses,” said De Marco, who represents the driver, in the written arguments.

He said that Palu was attracted to McLaren through the possibility of the race in F1.

But he said that it has become increasingly clear that he would lead the Indycar team in McLaren, not F1.

McLaren announced in 2022 that Pasri will participate in the following season. They are now the best duo in the F1 in terms of the points collected this season.

“There was a disappointment from Mr. Palo’s hopes and expectations. If Mr. Palu would stay in Indicar, not the race in F1, he would eventually prefer to stay with CGR.”

The case continues.