F1's issues should spur on 2021 revamp, believes Brown

McLaren CEO Zak Brown believes that the current underlying problems within the sport should trigger Liberty Media to push on with the major rules change for 2021...

Brown believes that rather than the owners of F1 responding to the problems with a cautious attitude, they should be more aggressive with their mannerisms and try to push on with their huge alteration.

"I think we have all seen it coming, and I don't envy what Liberty inherited because this started a while ago," Brown explained to Motorsport.com. "Bernie (Ecclestone, former owner) had control of it and was keeping it together, but it was a bit of a ticking time bomb, and now some things have exploded.

"And I've said this to them, and it is not nice, but sometimes you need things to actually breaka to be able to fix them. The mortgage crisis, and the financial crisis, are good examples. 

"Banking today is a lot better because of the financial crisis. And anyone in the financial industry knew it was going to eventually break.

"Unfortunately some of these things that have broken were unfortunately necessary in order to be able to hit the reset button.

"I can't tell you how many times I have heard - it will always fix itself. Lehman Brothers went under and that was the start of fixing things," Brown added.

"Whether it is a racing team, or a driver who should be in a seat and is going to end up being on the street, those are going to be things that we need to take notice of."