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A dark weekend indeed. Sadly F1 is never completely safe. Someday we may witness death again. Lets hope im wrong.
.One more try to keep the topic alive, NO I doubt Lewis will be leaving McLaren anytime soon. Put that in your pipe and smoke it
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One more try to keep the topic alive, NO I doubt Lewis will be leaving McLaren anytime soon. Put that in your pipe and smoke it
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I dont quite think anybody wishes that he leave. I been hoping that he proves me wrong but up till now lived up to my expectations of him. in his case the same slogan applies """ if you do right - no one remembers --- if you do wrong - no one forgets. """ and theres been so many wrongs ( maybe i should much wrongs - as its becoming uncountable.) anyway should he leave he will deprive me of seeing him messing up again and that (again) will be very selfish of him.. typical
Don't you worry about Lewis. You just go back to reliving the glory days when Schumacher showed everyone how it was done!
Don't you worry about Lewis. You just go back to reliving the glory days when Schumacher showed everyone how it was done!
Ahh yes Shuey, the Prince of racing integrity
Ron Dennis ready to quit Formula Onehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article6101379.ece
Ron Dennis, the chairman and driving force behind McLaren Mercedes, is expected to announce today that he is standing down from all involvement with Formula One operations as part of a deal to keep Lewis Hamilton with the team.
Dennis will address a press conference at the McLaren headquarters outside Woking, Surrey, this morning, where it is thought he will say that he is to remain chairman of the McLaren Group but will busy himself with the company's road car manufacturing operations and leave Martin Whitmarsh, who replaced him as team principal last month, in total charge of Formula One activities.
The decision, which would effectively mark the end of one of the greatest careers in the sport, came as the FIA's Court of Appeal threw out claims that Jenson Button's Brawn GP car is illegal, giving the green light to Hamilton's British rival to continue his surge towards the drivers' title, beginning with the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday.
Dennis's expected move comes in the wake of mounting speculation that he may have played a key role in the background to events at the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix, where Hamilton and Dave Ryan, the McLaren sporting director who has since been sacked, were exposed as having tried to deceive the stewards.
The key question was whether Dennis had spoken to Ryan between the two hearings, when Ryan and Hamilton lied about the circumstances in which Jarno Trulli, the Toyota driver, had passed Hamilton under the safety car three laps before the end of the race in Melbourne. To date, the official response from McLaren on this has been “no comment”.
The issue is important because Whitmarsh contended at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur that neither Ryan nor Hamilton had spoken to any other team members before either hearing and that they alone were responsible for the attempted subterfuge.
Dennis's decision to step back is also likely to be a consequence of pressure exerted by Anthony Hamilton, the world champion's father and manager, who does not get on with Dennis. He is believed to have been furious with what he saw as the team selling his son's reputation to try to gain a single championship point. Relations between the two are said to have reached a point at which Hamilton Sr, and to a lesser extent his son, did not want to continue with McLaren while Dennis was in charge.
Today's expected announcement by Dennis, 61, follows a formal handover of the team principal role to Whitmarsh on March 1. However, that changing of the guard was not comprehensive, with Dennis retaining an informal presence at grand-prix weekends, something that is likely to stop altogether.
Dennis's decision would mark a bitter end for a man whose life has revolved around Formula One and under whose guidance, since 1982, McLaren have won numerous races and championships for legends of the sport such as Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Mika Hakkinen. His tenure also included one of the team's worst years, in 2007, when they were fined $100 million (now about £67 million) by the FIA over the so-called “Spy-gate” affair.
The changes at the team will not go unnoticed at the FIA, which has summoned McLaren to an extraordinary meeting of its World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) in Paris on April 29 to consider the events in Australia and Malaysia, when McLaren could be suspended from either or both of the drivers' and constructors' championships. The world governing body believes that a culture of dishonesty has developed at McLaren, but the WMSC may view the team's prospects differently now that Whitmarsh is in sole charge.
The decision to throw out protests against Button's car came as no surprise. Along with Toyota and Williams, Brawn GP had been accused of exploiting a loophole in the new technical regulations by building a bigger diffuser at the rear of their cars than the rules allow. This produced more downforce and speed and helped to make Button's car up to a second quicker per lap than everyone else.
The problem for Button's rivals was that the stewards at Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur had conducted separate investigations into the issue, which included visual inspections of the rear of several cars, and had thrown out the protest. Charlie Whiting, the FIA race director for Formula One, had also given opinions that the Brawn car was legal.
Against this background it was unlikely that the Court of Appeal would contradict these findings, especially because Max Mosley, the FIA president, was known to be strongly of the view that the so-called “diffuser three” should not be required to re-design their cars.
Looks like Ron is leaving instead of Lewis.Ron Dennis ready to quit Formula Onehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article6101379.ece
Ron Dennis, the chairman and driving force behind McLaren Mercedes, is expected to announce today that he is standing down from all involvement with Formula One operations as part of a deal to keep Lewis Hamilton with the team.
Dennis will address a press conference at the McLaren headquarters outside Woking, Surrey, this morning, where it is thought he will say that he is to remain chairman of the McLaren Group but will busy himself with the company's road car manufacturing operations and leave Martin Whitmarsh, who replaced him as team principal last month, in total charge of Formula One activities.
The decision, which would effectively mark the end of one of the greatest careers in the sport, came as the FIA's Court of Appeal threw out claims that Jenson Button's Brawn GP car is illegal, giving the green light to Hamilton's British rival to continue his surge towards the drivers' title, beginning with the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday.
Dennis's expected move comes in the wake of mounting speculation that he may have played a key role in the background to events at the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix, where Hamilton and Dave Ryan, the McLaren sporting director who has since been sacked, were exposed as having tried to deceive the stewards.
The key question was whether Dennis had spoken to Ryan between the two hearings, when Ryan and Hamilton lied about the circumstances in which Jarno Trulli, the Toyota driver, had passed Hamilton under the safety car three laps before the end of the race in Melbourne. To date, the official response from McLaren on this has been “no comment”.
The issue is important because Whitmarsh contended at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur that neither Ryan nor Hamilton had spoken to any other team members before either hearing and that they alone were responsible for the attempted subterfuge.
Dennis's decision to step back is also likely to be a consequence of pressure exerted by Anthony Hamilton, the world champion's father and manager, who does not get on with Dennis. He is believed to have been furious with what he saw as the team selling his son's reputation to try to gain a single championship point. Relations between the two are said to have reached a point at which Hamilton Sr, and to a lesser extent his son, did not want to continue with McLaren while Dennis was in charge.
Today's expected announcement by Dennis, 61, follows a formal handover of the team principal role to Whitmarsh on March 1. However, that changing of the guard was not comprehensive, with Dennis retaining an informal presence at grand-prix weekends, something that is likely to stop altogether.
Dennis's decision would mark a bitter end for a man whose life has revolved around Formula One and under whose guidance, since 1982, McLaren have won numerous races and championships for legends of the sport such as Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Mika Hakkinen. His tenure also included one of the team's worst years, in 2007, when they were fined $100 million (now about £67 million) by the FIA over the so-called “Spy-gate” affair.
The changes at the team will not go unnoticed at the FIA, which has summoned McLaren to an extraordinary meeting of its World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) in Paris on April 29 to consider the events in Australia and Malaysia, when McLaren could be suspended from either or both of the drivers' and constructors' championships. The world governing body believes that a culture of dishonesty has developed at McLaren, but the WMSC may view the team's prospects differently now that Whitmarsh is in sole charge.
The decision to throw out protests against Button's car came as no surprise. Along with Toyota and Williams, Brawn GP had been accused of exploiting a loophole in the new technical regulations by building a bigger diffuser at the rear of their cars than the rules allow. This produced more downforce and speed and helped to make Button's car up to a second quicker per lap than everyone else.
The problem for Button's rivals was that the stewards at Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur had conducted separate investigations into the issue, which included visual inspections of the rear of several cars, and had thrown out the protest. Charlie Whiting, the FIA race director for Formula One, had also given opinions that the Brawn car was legal.
Against this background it was unlikely that the Court of Appeal would contradict these findings, especially because Max Mosley, the FIA president, was known to be strongly of the view that the so-called “diffuser three” should not be required to re-design their cars.
Looks like Ron is leaving instead of Lewis.Ron Dennis ready to quit Formula Onehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article6101379.ece
Ron Dennis, the chairman and driving force behind McLaren Mercedes, is expected to announce today that he is standing down from all involvement with Formula One operations as part of a deal to keep Lewis Hamilton with the team.
Dennis will address a press conference at the McLaren headquarters outside Woking, Surrey, this morning, where it is thought he will say that he is to remain chairman of the McLaren Group but will busy himself with the company's road car manufacturing operations and leave Martin Whitmarsh, who replaced him as team principal last month, in total charge of Formula One activities.
The decision, which would effectively mark the end of one of the greatest careers in the sport, came as the FIA's Court of Appeal threw out claims that Jenson Button's Brawn GP car is illegal, giving the green light to Hamilton's British rival to continue his surge towards the drivers' title, beginning with the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday.
Dennis's expected move comes in the wake of mounting speculation that he may have played a key role in the background to events at the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix, where Hamilton and Dave Ryan, the McLaren sporting director who has since been sacked, were exposed as having tried to deceive the stewards.
The key question was whether Dennis had spoken to Ryan between the two hearings, when Ryan and Hamilton lied about the circumstances in which Jarno Trulli, the Toyota driver, had passed Hamilton under the safety car three laps before the end of the race in Melbourne. To date, the official response from McLaren on this has been “no comment”.
The issue is important because Whitmarsh contended at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur that neither Ryan nor Hamilton had spoken to any other team members before either hearing and that they alone were responsible for the attempted subterfuge.
Dennis's decision to step back is also likely to be a consequence of pressure exerted by Anthony Hamilton, the world champion's father and manager, who does not get on with Dennis. He is believed to have been furious with what he saw as the team selling his son's reputation to try to gain a single championship point. Relations between the two are said to have reached a point at which Hamilton Sr, and to a lesser extent his son, did not want to continue with McLaren while Dennis was in charge.
Today's expected announcement by Dennis, 61, follows a formal handover of the team principal role to Whitmarsh on March 1. However, that changing of the guard was not comprehensive, with Dennis retaining an informal presence at grand-prix weekends, something that is likely to stop altogether.
Dennis's decision would mark a bitter end for a man whose life has revolved around Formula One and under whose guidance, since 1982, McLaren have won numerous races and championships for legends of the sport such as Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Mika Hakkinen. His tenure also included one of the team's worst years, in 2007, when they were fined $100 million (now about £67 million) by the FIA over the so-called “Spy-gate” affair.
The changes at the team will not go unnoticed at the FIA, which has summoned McLaren to an extraordinary meeting of its World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) in Paris on April 29 to consider the events in Australia and Malaysia, when McLaren could be suspended from either or both of the drivers' and constructors' championships. The world governing body believes that a culture of dishonesty has developed at McLaren, but the WMSC may view the team's prospects differently now that Whitmarsh is in sole charge.
The decision to throw out protests against Button's car came as no surprise. Along with Toyota and Williams, Brawn GP had been accused of exploiting a loophole in the new technical regulations by building a bigger diffuser at the rear of their cars than the rules allow. This produced more downforce and speed and helped to make Button's car up to a second quicker per lap than everyone else.
The problem for Button's rivals was that the stewards at Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur had conducted separate investigations into the issue, which included visual inspections of the rear of several cars, and had thrown out the protest. Charlie Whiting, the FIA race director for Formula One, had also given opinions that the Brawn car was legal.
Against this background it was unlikely that the Court of Appeal would contradict these findings, especially because Max Mosley, the FIA president, was known to be strongly of the view that the so-called “diffuser three” should not be required to re-design their cars.
All I can say is WTF Ron is a great guy but if him leaving turns out to be true then there are going to be some serious questions asked about why he is going. I would like to think Ron would tell Anthony Hamilton to f*** off! This is really concerning
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