Not quite F1 but my Mrs got this email from her boss's boss' boss's boss.
Subject: Indy 500 – Great Job
The idea for running a car in the Indy 500 was born seven weeks before the race. In that time we planned and activated all the elements involved with entering a car in the biggest sporting event in the motorsports calendar. Just to make things a little spicier in the run up, add two weeks of testing, the qualifying weekend, the Bahrain and Barcelona Grand Prix and throw in the spectacle that is Monaco for fun on the same weekend!
Despite all this added friction, there was a papaya orange car which qualified in the second row and led the group of 33 for 27 laps, with a strong chance of victory - spectacular and a special moment in our history. We also reminded ourselves that we thrive in the heat of battle – quite literally sometimes – and that no matter where or when, we are all racers at heart and wow does that make us feel alive!
The Indy project has been incredibly smooth and more importantly commercially hugely valuable for the Company and that is down to the teamwork and talent of all those many people involved. The collaboration with Andretti Autosports could not have been better and it was fantastic to see every company under the McLaren banner working together to achieve great performance on track and spark great excitement in McLaren from our partners, prospects and media off the track.
Thank you sincerely to those involved and those working so ******* other projects. Huge praise goes to Fernando for a phenomenal 'Rookie year' and for keeping us on the edge of our seats on Sunday, let's hope we can give him the chance to deliver the Triple Crown in years to come!
In February we said that we believed that it is possible to work hard and have fun and say thanks. We hope that you now believe that too.
Did we make something special happen and set a new agenda this weekend? Yes, we did! We should all take a moment to be satisfied about that and proud of what has been achieved.
Cheers,
Zak and Jonathan
If you note the underlined bit, McLaren will be returning to Le Mans and to get the overall win they must go for the LMP1 category.