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Originally Posted by yco
i told you already.. and McLaren without Ron Dennis is like night and day difference for me.. McLaren is a different team nowadays without Ron Dennis..
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This.
I know people who worked with McLaren in the past and now. I communicate with a very high placed person at McLaren on a regular basis via email...I won't say who but everyone sees him at every race.
Ron Dennis changed so much in F1 that it isn't even funny. Who was the first person using Carbon Fiber? Think about that for a second? I worked with CF as in engineering student when it was still considered an exotic material. We performed fracture analyses and dozens of other tests on it as well as on other exotic material for the aerospace industry.
Each time everyone looks in the garages and sees a meticulous pit area with nary a thing out of place...thank Ron Dennis. He was the FIRST person in motorsports to add that type of professionalism to something so simple.
I still love McLaren as I have since the late 70s and it is NOT the same since Ron Dennis left but I believe that with Zak Brown, another real racer, they have turned the corner and we will see them on the podium soon and winning racers shortly thereafter.
Great post!!