Zak Brown calls for avoiding unconstructive criticism.

      Zak Brown, the CEO of McLaren Racing, despite the challenges his team faced at the beginning of the season, calls for a calmer attitude towards the new Formula 1 regulations and to avoid unconstructive criticism. In particular, he disagrees with the assumptions that the new rules are too complex, and because of this, the younger part of the championship's audience may lose interest in F1 racing. Moreover, the FIA, together with the organizers and participants of the championship, has already determined measures to rectify the situation, and starting from the Miami stage, amendments to the regulations aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with power unit operating modes, such as energy accumulation and superclipping, will be introduced.

      "We have only had three races. I understand that everyone feels a certain excitement when these new technologies, new rules are introduced, when everyone has new cars," Brown said, according to RacingNews365. "I understand that at the first race, we all had a critical mindset. But now we are preparing for the fourth race and have already implemented a number of significant changes that, in my opinion, will lead to improvements. And then we will see if we need to continue working in this direction.

      I think there was a similar uproar when the hybrid era began (in 2014), but then it turned out that everything was going fine. But by the end of that era, of course, we didn't want to wait another ten years, even though the level of competition in Formula 1 was incredibly high. And then our wonderful engineers quickly developed new technologies.

      I believe that now we are more likely to talk about the fact that long-time fans disagree with the younger audience. It would probably be wrong not to listen to their opinions, but perhaps these are people who have been following Formula 1 for a longer time.

      And we at the pit wall find it interesting, although I understand the drivers' reactions, but there is an audience that watches the races on TV. And I don't remember the leader changing four or five times in just two or three laps at the Australian Grand Prix, so the spectacle was quite exciting.

      The way those overtakes happened, when drivers overtook each other four or five times, they didn't like, but the television doesn't convey that. The races are very interesting, and I believe that we have taken the necessary measures that, hopefully, will solve both tasks – the TV broadcasts of the races will still be exciting, and the drivers will feel that they are driving real Formula 1 cars."