- 19 Apr 09, 06:14#109391
I don't know if this was posted or not but I wonder how tense things are between Hamilton and McLaren?
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/19042009/ ... stone.html
Dennis exit will not appease FIA – Ecclestone
Sun 19 Apr, 06:39 AM
Dennis exit will not appease FIA – Ecclestone
The withdrawal from Formula One of Ron Dennis is unlikely to appease the World Motor Sport Council when it meets later this month.
That is the opinion of F1 Chief Executive Bernie Ecclestone, amid suggestions Dennis may have stepped down from McLaren so that the Mercedes-powered team is treated less harshly by the FIA body.
"This is an issue for the McLaren team to deal with. This is not about the personalities of Ron and Max (Mosley)," Ecclestone said in Shanghai.
Woking-based McLaren, led by the FIA President's nemesis Dennis since the early 1980s, faces fraud charges following the 'lie-gate' affair.
"They still face the same range of punishments if the WMSC find them guilty,” Ecclestone said. “If he (Ron) resigned to stop the hearing, it won't work. This is about finding out if there was more to what happened than we have already learned."
Ecclestone said he was ‘sorry’ to see Dennis' more than 40-year involvement with the sport at an end.
Meanwhile, British Sunday newspapers are reporting that McLaren mechanics are furious with Lewis Hamilton. The Daily Mail said the reigning world champion ‘could count his friends on the fingers of one hand,’ after blaming the sacked Dave Ryan for lying to stewards and then threatening to quit McLaren.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/19042009/ ... stone.html
Dennis exit will not appease FIA – Ecclestone
Sun 19 Apr, 06:39 AM
Dennis exit will not appease FIA – Ecclestone
The withdrawal from Formula One of Ron Dennis is unlikely to appease the World Motor Sport Council when it meets later this month.
That is the opinion of F1 Chief Executive Bernie Ecclestone, amid suggestions Dennis may have stepped down from McLaren so that the Mercedes-powered team is treated less harshly by the FIA body.
"This is an issue for the McLaren team to deal with. This is not about the personalities of Ron and Max (Mosley)," Ecclestone said in Shanghai.
Woking-based McLaren, led by the FIA President's nemesis Dennis since the early 1980s, faces fraud charges following the 'lie-gate' affair.
"They still face the same range of punishments if the WMSC find them guilty,” Ecclestone said. “If he (Ron) resigned to stop the hearing, it won't work. This is about finding out if there was more to what happened than we have already learned."
Ecclestone said he was ‘sorry’ to see Dennis' more than 40-year involvement with the sport at an end.
Meanwhile, British Sunday newspapers are reporting that McLaren mechanics are furious with Lewis Hamilton. The Daily Mail said the reigning world champion ‘could count his friends on the fingers of one hand,’ after blaming the sacked Dave Ryan for lying to stewards and then threatening to quit McLaren.