McLaren executive director Zak Brown has brushed off ex-Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's calls for the sport to make an all-electric swi🌟tch in the future, calling it "off-season banter".

Ecclestone told reporters last week that Liberty should consider turning into an all-electric series in the fut⛎ure in order to keep manufa💫ctuᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrers interested, opting for a "super Formula E" concept.

"Let’s make different types of cars, let’s speak to the ꦓmanufacturers and start a new all-electric F1, a Formula 1 for the future," Ecclestone said.

"You can make cars be like an F1 car and the only thing you wou🍎ld miss would be the noise and I do not believe that people ꦚcould not come up with something to make more or less the old F1 noise.

"They♒ [Liberty] would need to have the balls to do it today.♏ I think they will have to do it."

McLaren holds an interest in electric racing via Formula E, with its Applied 🌳Technologies division supplying the championship with its new battery from 2019, but Brown was quick to shrug off Ecclestone's commen🍒ts.

"Electric is very important, we're doing the battery for Forౠmula E in season five, so we're a fan of Formula E. We think electric racing obviously has a big future in motor racing," Brown said.

"Bernie's comments, as you guys all know from spending time with him, he enjoys a little bit of off-seas𝐆on banter.

"So I think I'd put it down to that."