Zak Brown will maintain driver parity even at the cost of a title.

      On the Beyond the Grid podcast, McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown said he is not prepared to compromise his principles by giving an advantage to one of his drivers in the title fight — even if, as a result, the title is won by Verstappen...

      Zak Brown: "If Max wins, I'll shake his hand and congratulate him on a job well done. I want to be sure that if we don't win, he beats us — that we don't beat ourselves. That's important.

      We remember 2007 well, when two McLaren drivers [Hamilton and Alonso] scored the same number of points, and another [Räikkönen] won. As you can understand, we now again have two drivers dreaming of winning the world championship. We're playing on the attack. We're not playing defense.

      I'd rather say, 'We did everything we could' in a situation where our drivers had equal points and another got ahead of us by a single point, than tell one of our drivers now, when they're separated by one point: 'I know you dream of winning the world championship, but we flipped a coin and you won't get that chance this year.'

      That's not our way. If 2007 repeats itself, I'd prefer that outcome to any other rather than having to pick a favorite. We won't do that."