It’s no accident that Ellingworth was set on bringing the whole team of just under 90 Bahrain-Merida riders and staff here for their first meeting under his leadership, just a week before CW meets him. The McLaren Technology Centreis figuratively a million miles from the Manchester velodrome where he started his management career, let alone the dreary rain-soaked car parks where much of a team’s day-to-day business is conducted, or even the nice hotels in sunny climes teams choose for their annual training camps. While Formula 1 alumni might be inured to McLaren’s charms, coming from the world of cycling, it’s a massive culture shock.
“There’s no other team who have a base and a centre like this and hundreds of people at hand,” he says. “You can feel that [racing] passion, somebody from outside of this firm coming in like myself in that first few months of like, wow, you know, it’s really exciting here. If we can just bring in a certain percentage of that into our sport, it’ll make a difference.”
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