Dennis

1. Ron Dennis dating Annabelle Bond

Sezione: F1

Nine months after announcing the end of his 22-year marriage, McLaren boss Ron Dennis is reportedly dating again. The Briton, 61, is being linked with Annabelle Bond, a 39-year-old adventurer and activist, who in 2004 became the fourth woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. She is also the daughter of the British banker Sir John Bond, who is currently...

Data: 2008-11-25

2. Paul Di Resta wants 2009 F1 debut

Sezione: F1

...The McLaren and Mercedes-backed Scot narrowly missed securing this year\'s DTM title, and has been linked with one of the Mercedes-powered Force India seats for 2009. McLaren\'s Ron Dennis recently confirmed that the organisation\'s target is to bring the 22-year-old - who is managed by Lewis Hamilton\'s father Anthony - into formula one. Another year in...

Data: 2008-11-19

3. 'Bad car would test Hamilton's loyalty'

Sezione: F1

...him to stay with McLaren if the car wasn't performing," Scot Coulthard is quoted as saying by The Sun. Hamilton was groomed and financed throughout his junior racing career by Ron Dennis' team, culminating in his current long-term contract. But 37-year-old Coulthard believes trying to predict the future is futile for Hamilton. "He wants to win and you would...

Data: 2008-11-11

4. Lewis Hamilton also dismisses 'arrogant' jibe

Sezione: F1

Lewis Hamilton has echoed his boss Ron Dennis' defence that he is not arrogant. Among the criticisms of the 2008 world champion that emerge from the paddock and the wider public, the 23-year-old's sometimes over-zealous confidence is arguably most often repeated. The McLaren driver admits that some of the negativity surrounding his success "saddens" him. "It...

Data: 2008-11-11

5. Lewis Hamilton cuts deal to keep key trophies

Sezione: F1

Lewis Hamilton has cut a second sweet and unique deal with McLaren boss Ron Dennis. It had already emerged that, with his third drivers' world championship for the British team, Hamilton has been promised the McLaren F1 LM supercar - worth about $8m - that currently resides in the team museum. And 23-year-old Hamilton revealed at Mercedes-Benz's...

Data: 2008-11-11

6. No cash bonus for Lewis Hamilton title - Ron Dennis

Sezione: F1

McLaren boss Ron Dennis has countered reports that Lewis Hamilton is set to perhaps double his retainer as a reward for securing the British team's first drivers' title in nearly a decade. "We have no links to performance in any of our contracts with either drivers or sponsors," the 61-year-old clarified. It was reported by the British press after Interlagos...

Data: 2008-11-10

7. Brazil tried to thwart Hamilton title - Dennis

Sezione: F1

Toy black cats were not the only weapons used to try and throw Lewis Hamilton's championship bid off the rails in Brazil a week ago, McLaren boss Ron Dennis has revealed. Local comedians hurled the cats, a sign of bad luck in Brazil, at not only the British driver at a sponsor press conference, but also his disabled brother Nicholas in a hotel lobby. "(There...

Data: 2008-11-10

8. FOTA to agree to 5m euro engine proposal

Sezione: F1

...manufacturers make customer engines available to privateers for no more than 5 million euros per season. "This was a figure that we have targeted as being part of our objective," McLaren's Ron Dennis said. With the 5m euro engines for 2010 combined with the extension of engine life next year from two to three races, FOTA is hopeful the FIA will be satisfied...

Data: 2008-11-07

9. McLaren to launch 2009 car in January

Sezione: F1

...January next year. Toyota (16 January) and BMW-Sauber (20 January) recently became the first squads to confirm launch dates. And at McLaren's Woking headquarters this week, team boss Ron Dennis revealed: "We are really well advanced in our new car and we will announce (launch) the car in the latter part of January." The new Mercedes-powered car, to be called...

Data: 2008-11-06

10. Lewis Hamilton 'not arrogant' - Ron Dennis

Sezione: F1

...new world champion in the face of claims he is "arrogant". Many observers acclaim the 23-year-old McLaren driver's talent, but insist his overconfidence is less appealing. But Ron Dennis, head of the McLaren-Mercedes team, does not agree: "People say Lewis is aggressive, that he's arrogant, but he is not. Definitely not. "He wants to win and, sometimes,...

Data: 2008-11-06

11. Lewis Hamilton tells McLaren - 'I'm going nowhere'

Sezione: F1

...Brazil on Wednesday to personally thank McLaren's staff in Woking, he promised the nearly 1000-strong ranks that he has no plans to swerve his long-term contractual arrangement with Ron Dennis' team. "I love this team and I'm going nowhere," he told them, to a rapturous reception. Hamilton had pulled up outside the ultra high-tech McLaren Technology Centre...

Data: 2008-11-06

12. La Bond girl Olga Kurylenko sarà la prima a guidare la Nuova Ford Ka

Sezione: Eventi e raduni

...combinazione esclusiva tra design degli esterni e degli interni.La speciale Ka ‘Quantum of Solace’ è stata creata dal team design di Ford Europa in collaborazione con Dennis Gassner, scenografo del film già vincitore di un Oscar®. La nuova Ka consolida la relazione tra Ford e i film di James Bond, instauratasi con la prima...

Data: 2008-11-05

13. F1 bigwigs endure 'nightmare' flight

Sezione: F1

...time for their shift, which meant we then had to set down in Madrid to pick up a new crew," the passenger explained. "We were due to get into Heathrow at about midday on Monday. As it was, we didn't touch down in London until 9.20pm." World champion Lewis Hamilton's McLaren boss Ron Dennis enjoyed a smoother return to the UK, on board a private jet.Source:...

Data: 2008-11-05

14. Ecclestone happy with F1's new champion

Sezione: F1

...have a problem with Lewis now. He's great and I hope that is how he always is. "Formula one has given these guys something, I like to see them give something back. "My message to Ron (Dennis) would be to let Lewis be what he is, the guy we see and like," he said. Ecclestone said on the Interlagos grid last Sunday that both Hamilton and Felipe Massa would...

Data: 2008-11-05

15. Eddie Irvine urges Ferrari switch for Hamilton

Sezione: F1

...in just his second season of formula one, Irvine said driving for Ferrari should be among his future ambitions. "He may win a couple more (titles) with McLaren and he's loyal to Ron Dennis but he's got to move to Ferrari at some point," Irvine told Virgin Media. Part of the British media's reaction to Hamilton's championship triumph last Sunday was to...

Data: 2008-11-04

16. Ron Dennis hints at reduced role at McLaren team

Sezione: F1

The morning after Lewis Hamilton delivered McLaren's first drivers' title in nine years, Ron Dennis hinted he is about to step down from the helm of the formula one team. He told reporters in Sao Paulo that he is keen to develop the company's production car programme, but played down any link between the news and Hamilton's title triumph. "Nothing that will...

Data: 2008-11-04

17. Lewis Hamilton eyes three titles and $8m supercar

Sezione: F1

The terms of their arrangement seem to have changed, but Lewis Hamilton still expects team boss Ron Dennis to give him a multi-million dollar McLaren supercar one day. We reported earlier this year that the 23-year-old was promised by Dennis the ultra-rare orange $8 million McLaren LM, housed in the team's Woking factory, if he became the 2008 world...

Data: 2008-11-04

18. Toyota to start 2009 without KERS

Sezione: F1

...Japanese squad will probably commence the 2009 season without a KERS system. After a FOTA alliance meeting voted down a proposal to delay the new technology until 2010, McLaren boss Ron Dennis suggested to the media that "one team" planned to race in Melbourne next March without a KERS system anyway. "It is very unlikely that at the first race we will have a...

Data: 2008-11-04

19. F1 Sao Paulo: Lewis Hamilton Weltmeister

Sezione: Formel 1

...werde jetzt über den Winter noch härter an mir arbeiten und dann steht der Weltmeister im nächsten Jahr hoffentlich auf der anderen Seite unserer Garage.“ Ron Dennis„Das war wirklich ein anstrengendes Rennen. Wir attackierten nie besonders hart, wir taten nichts Unüberlegtes, doch durch den Regen kurz vor Schluss wurde alles...

Data: 2008-11-03

20. F1 Sao Paulo: Lewis Hamilton World Champion

Sezione: F1

...throughout so congratulations to everyone. I’ll now work even harder over the winter and hopefully next year's world champion will be on the other side of our garage!” Ron Dennis"Well, that was a really tough race. We never pushed hard, we never did anything silly, but of course the late rain made things extraordinarily tense. Even so, even when...

Data: 2008-11-03