Zak Brown He has been talking about the current season and the expectations they have for the next one and has also made clear some questions about Fernando beyond F1. Brown has stressed again that the MCL32 had a good chassis on a par with the Red Bull, he also believes that in some circuits they could beat the energy drink ones and in others they would be surpassed by them if they had the same engine mounted in the rear. from behind, something they will have in F1 2018.
But in addition to this, he has spoken about Alonso's contract, claiming that he would love for Fernando to stay until the end of his career with McLaren. He also said that «Hopefully, we will fight for podiums. Doing it for the top spot will be difficult, because Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull are big teams with big budgets.«. He also remarks that the car will not have the same appearance as this year in terms of the absence of sponsor logos «The car will not look the way it did this year. With Renault winning races, people hope that we will be back at the front again. There is no doubt that it has helped us, commercially.«. 
On top of that Zak has gone over what happened with honda, and alleges that they already knew that something was not going well since the preseason, and it was shortly after that they made the decision to cut with Honda, although it did not materialize until some time later. Specifically, two weeks later than optimal to start with the design of the new MCL33 car, adapting the car for the new Renault engine. However, his colleague on board, Eric Boullier, assures that they have almost recovered those two weeks, although they are going a bit to the limit, but that they are working hard to solve the lack of time. Zak has also said that they already have "some french friends working» in Woking…
It also seems that McLaren does not rule out working with Honda in the future despite what has happened… is he referring to F1 or Indy? We won't know yet, but what we do know is that if Alonso had continued with Honda to get on a Toyota LMP1 it would be unthinkable. However, Renault does not care, they do not compete in Le Mans and they have not raised any objections: «We've talked to them and they would agree.«. In addition, he has said that a decision will be made soon about whether or not Alonso goes to Le Mans in 2018 and of course we will know more details about the 24 hours of Daytona that he will run in January.