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Zak Brown keeps team papaya revving with pole at Laguna

Formula 1 has shut down for the summer break, but as usual, Zak Brown clearly didn’t get the memo.

At Laguna Seca’s Monterey Historics Pre-Union event, the McLaren Racing boss swapped the pitwall for the cockpit of something considerably older, louder and less interested in subtlety than a modern F1 car: a mighty McLaren M8D Can-Am machine.

And Brown wasn’t there merely to admire the machinery. Putting his racing instincts to work, he hustled the big-block beast to pole position for Sunday’s Bruce McLaren Trophy.

Who needs a relaxing beach vacation when you can keep the papaya colors flying high at maximum revs on track?

Michael Delaney

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