Jost Capito appointed as CEO of Mclaren Racing.

[Trevatanus]

VW's Director of Motorsport.
Odd choice having someone come from a "non F1" company?
Or are McLaren looking to form some sort of alliance with VW in the future?

http://www.mclaren.com/formula1/team/mclaren-prepa...

[Pwig]

He did work at Sauber for a while though so not completely inexperienced.

[rubystone]

Friend of mine worked with him at Ford. Seems he was well liked and respected there and v bright.

[belleair302]

Hopefully he can work with Honda more successfully than the current management team. He does come from a big car company and has a passion for bikes...

[sirtyro]

I don't fully understand the corporate structure of Mclaren. They seem to have more CEO's a directors of something or other than any other team. Hope it all works for them though. Looking forward to seeing how winter testing goes.

[rev-erend]

Same bloke who gave us the mk11 Focus RS.

Great car.

Guess McLaren are after someone different to shake things up a bit or Ron just needs a new scape goat for when things don't work out next year.

[andyps]

Jean Todt had similar experience of WRC when he joinned Ferrari and things went pretty well for them.