Zak Brown and Adrian Newey engage in hilarious merch swap over dinner

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown and Red Bull design chief Adrian Newey swapped teams in a funny exchange when out for dinner.

Newey’s Red Bull team are currently schooling the competition in Formula 1, Newey heading the design boffins who have created what remains an unbeatable RB19 challenger.

12 rounds have passed so far in F1 2023, each one yielding a Red Bull victory with 10 going the way of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez claiming the other two.

Zak Brown and Adrian Newey swap hats

Brown’s McLaren squad have been highly impressive in their own right this season, surging forward from knocking on the door of the points to scoring back-to-back podium finishes at the British and Hungarian GPs, courtesy of Lando Norris.

Establishing themselves as ‘best of the rest’ behind Red Bull is McLaren’s goal for the remainder of the season, before looking to narrow the gap to Red Bull next season, but before any of that, Brown and Newey were in each other’s company for a dinner during the F1 2023 summer shutdown.

The duo could not help but put a Formula 1 twist on it though, engaging in a hat swap for the cameras.

Zak Brown Adrian Newey

Switching team-caps#F1pic.twitter.com/QrxDFhvhys

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A trip down memory lane in many ways for Newey, who before designing title-winning cars for Red Bull, was doing the same with McLaren.

For his sake, he best hope that the old ‘put your thinking cap on’ phrase does not come true, as there is without doubt a huge reservoir of knowledge which Brown, and all those in the paddock watching Red Bull with envy, would love to have access to!

Red Bull effectively now have back-to-back title doubles in the bag, Verstappen’sDrivers’ Championshiplead standing at 125 points over Perez, while Red Bull are 256 points clear of Mercedes in the Constructors’.

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