Just a few seasons ago McLaren was staring into the abyss, with a poor car and dysfunctional team – Mark Hughes explains how Zak Brown empowered some crucial staff to get it firing again
On previous occasions when a team has won the world constructors' title but not the drivers', it's usually been a low-key consolation prize, one barely noticed. Think of Ferrari in 2008, having seen its driver Felipe Massa lose the drivers' title on the last corner of the season. A second consecutive constructors' title for the team wasn't the big story. Even in 1999 when Ferrari won its first constructors' title for 16 years, the story was all about how Eddie Irvine's bid to be the injured Michael Schumacher's title-winning reserve had fallen short. For the third successive year a Ferrari driver had gone to the final round for a title show-down and come off second-best; that was the overwhelming emotion there at the time. Williams surely appreciated the financial implications of winning the constructors' title in 1994, but it wasn't the time for a celebration in light of Damon Hill losing the title to a Schumacher-induced collision in Adelaide...
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