Well, Ron Dennis gave up, finally.
Hamilton is gonna cry
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/ ... nis-quit-week-report.html
Hamilton is gonna cry
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/ ... nis-quit-week-report.html
Dennis to quit this week[?]
It doesn't seem very timely at all. I won't buy it until I see some concrete evidence.
I'll get my coat...
LMFAO!
Ron Dennis was proven to have an instrumental part in the theft of certain technical drawings. He has been blackmailed to step down.
/tinfoilhat
/tinfoilhat
I think it probably has more to do with the fact that his wife has left him and he can't put up with the politics in F1 anymore. Don't forget that Ron Dennis has more than the one job for Mclaren, most people his age would be looking at retiring. Anyway its not in Autosport yet, so I don't think its true, but he is talking about stepping down this season, so it will probably be before the first GP.
I'll be glad to see him gone. Never liked him and never liked McLaren because of him.
I've never liked him, or McLaren, but I'll be sad if he goes, because he's one of the few remaining people in F1 that has remained loyal to F1 through thick and thin, and he certainly has character - something SERIOUSLY lacking from the dull corporate faces F1 now employs.
His leaving will ultimately be F1's loss.
His leaving will ultimately be F1's loss.
It is the slow evolution from chassis welded in wooden sheds with charismatic drivers and team owners, to big companies that have little to do with the actual building of the car and PR trained drivers. 
I actually think Ron contributed alot to F1 and its sad to see him go, without him and the original Project four the name Mclaren might disappear in the F1 racing scene, for most of his life he stick to his standard and correctness and that's plain to see. Him and the Mclaren group is also in my eye a symbol of the innovative cutting edge side of United Kingdom.
Ron Dennis is a charmless, humourless corporate ****sucker, and Martin Whitmarsh is no better. Screw both of them.
The less of these grey men in F1 the better.
The less of these grey men in F1 the better.
It's simply unrealistic to expect Formula 1 to be run by pure hot blooded racing enthruisasts nowadays. There're so many connection with people in finance, insurance banking and stuff, you need someone who can operate on the same wavelength with those people to get things ticking.
And not very often we are blessed by people who can do it all like Eddie Jordan and Sir Stewart. Ron although lacks charm, however he is still an out and out racer trying to win by every means, and for that he deserves some respect.
And not very often we are blessed by people who can do it all like Eddie Jordan and Sir Stewart. Ron although lacks charm, however he is still an out and out racer trying to win by every means, and for that he deserves some respect.
I personally enjoyed watching Ron. Back in the late 90's, seeing a tear in his steely eye when Mika would win.
We're all aware he's going to pass the baton over to Martin, but having a newspaper telling me when it's going to happen is quite frankly......... Well see my earlier post.
He's the original corperate hard nose. I'm sure Bruce would have been proud.
We're all aware he's going to pass the baton over to Martin, but having a newspaper telling me when it's going to happen is quite frankly......... Well see my earlier post.
He's the original corperate hard nose. I'm sure Bruce would have been proud.
That doesn't mean we have to like them. I'm sure my bank manager does a reasonably good job but I wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with him.
Is this the Bruce McLaren who painted his cars orange and drove them himself? He'd be proud of a man who paints his cars grey and talks in legalese?
I didn't say you have to like him.
and if Bruce lives today.......he won't be able to design and build his own car I am pretty darn sure, times are different mate. But I am sure he won't just turn away from F1 because it's no longer a sport run by free spirits, he would still do whatever it takes to win.
and if Bruce lives today.......he won't be able to design and build his own car I am pretty darn sure, times are different mate. But I am sure he won't just turn away from F1 because it's no longer a sport run by free spirits, he would still do whatever it takes to win.
I meant the thread title, that he would quit this week.
But I think he'd be hanging out down the pitlane with Frank and Patrick, not in the McLaren mobile office block having hors d'oeuvres with Ron, prepared by his gay "absolute taste" catering company.
Definately agree with thisnameistaken. Bruce would probably be turning in his grave especially after last year.
I agree.
However, he also has an obvious contempt and dislike for Max Mosley, and the more of those men in F1, the better.
He has had to stay boring because Max has been out to get him from day one. Ron has showed more emotion as a leader than anything you see from the Ferrari camp. If you remember Mclaren actually ran orange on their test cars a few years ago, I don't think they like the grey either, but with Mercedes taking an even bigger chunk out of the team the cars will just get greyer.
Although I never actually came to like McLaren as a team (that comes from much before Alonso got in, including those horrible race days where newbie Raikkonnen would be hit by Montoya) since I always found it to be quite unorganized in a way, more like contradicting itself than being not well thought up, but I kind of liked Ron Dennis thinking he was a nice guy who would work a lot for his team, and not just a guy that 'is there barking orders everywhere'.
Even though last F1 season took a big dip on his image and destroyed part of his 'savoir-faire' looks, I am still convinced he's a good guy to who events have gone off the rails, thus him not being able to fully control the circus his team has come to be thanks to both his drivers and one of the driver's father.
Even though right now it's the right decision both from familiar point of view and the right professional moment (it was rumoured that Mercedes wanted to buy the team quite a while ago), I think he will still be there, in the dark, helping the team in a way similar to what M. Schumacher is doing by helping Ferrari.
All in all, another person who has been part of the story of F1 is going, one year after Schumacher went away, so I say :
'Let the new generation make history'
Even though last F1 season took a big dip on his image and destroyed part of his 'savoir-faire' looks, I am still convinced he's a good guy to who events have gone off the rails, thus him not being able to fully control the circus his team has come to be thanks to both his drivers and one of the driver's father.
Even though right now it's the right decision both from familiar point of view and the right professional moment (it was rumoured that Mercedes wanted to buy the team quite a while ago), I think he will still be there, in the dark, helping the team in a way similar to what M. Schumacher is doing by helping Ferrari.
All in all, another person who has been part of the story of F1 is going, one year after Schumacher went away, so I say :
'Let the new generation make history'
I think these are pure speculations, as Mclaren has denied all of this.. I don't think he will bail out now, at the begining of the season, it's the worst time for the team and they will not IMO risk making a bad moral with the emploeyes and the drivers.. 
Incidentally: If I was looking for a replacement team manager at McLaren, I'd be waving satchels of money at Tony Purnell. It would also help get the FIA off their backs.
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