McLaren determined to Fight Back

As reported on Sporting Life McLaren-Mercedes have vowed to improve in 2007, with both Norbert Haug and Ron Dennis promising there are better things to come. “This year we had five or six chances to win a race but didn’t make it,” said Haug, Mercedes’ motorsport boss. “We were not good enough to drive for [...]

Honda lose senior aerodynamicist

As reported on homeofsport Senior Aerodynamicist Simon Lacey has left Honda’s F1 team, according to reports. Unofficial website realhondaf1.com says he is bound for the role of ‘Chief Aerodynamicist’ at McLaren. At Ron Dennis’ Woking based outfit, he replaces Peter Prodromou, who started work at Red Bull Racing this week. TAGS: Formula 1 . F1 [...]

McLaren hint at Hamilton bow

As reported on M&C Sport Lewis Hamilton, the highly-rated young British driver, could be set to make his competitive bow in Formula One after his McLaren team revealed they were considering handing him a race seat for the season’s final grand prix in Brazil. “Whether anything comes out of that to change our current thinking [...]

Bernie tells McLaren to sign Hamilton

As reported on homeofsport F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has joined Sir Frank Williams in urging McLaren to sign Lewis Hamilton to be Fernando Alonso’s teammate next year. “We need more fresh faces, Ron Dennis really should sign him up.” Now that the Supremo has spoken, I’ll say there is good chances of Hamilton driving for [...]

Williams backs Hamilton for McLaren drive

As reported on autosport.com Frank Williams says he would not think twice about bringing young Briton Lewis Hamilton into Formula One next season if he were McLaren’s Ron Dennis. “I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to tell Ron Dennis… how to do his job,” the team boss wrote in the Daily Telegraph newspaper on Wednesday. [...]

Dennis: Montoya could return to F1 this year

As reported on tsn.ca “Juan Pablo is fully contracted to the end of the year and if we so choose he will test and race again, that is our option and no one else’s,” said McLaren boss Ron Dennis . “I felt if he was focused on having the best end of season, I thought [...]

Development caught us out, says Dennis.

As reported on crash.net McLaren had a revised engine cover for the street race, which was rushed into service before going through as much on-track testing as would normally be the case. In Thursday Raikkonen suffered a fire when he ran slowly before and after a practice start on the grid at the end of [...]