When Ducati will get their act together finally, Japanese will be losing in every motorsport they take part in. Are they not so clever anymore? Or maybe don't care that much? They've been successful in every motorsprt at one time or another but right now they can't seem to get a grip on things anywhere but Motogp, where the Italians are getting closer anyway.
I think a perfect way of analyzing the teams morale is observing how scruffy their drivers are allowed to look what with scraggly beards. I thought McLaren was the team of elegant clean cut drivers
Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull are in fact big title sponsors. So we are in an era where in the "title" sponsor owns the team.
McLaren set to lose £20m in sponsorship next year McLaren set to lose £20m in sponsorship next year - Telegraph Johnnie Walker, the whisky brand, and Santander, the banking group, are likely to walk away from McLaren Johnnie Walker have been with McLaren for a decade, bringing £15 million a season. Their expected departure will be all the more galling for Ron Dennis, the McLaren chairman, given they offered at the end of 2013 to become the teams title sponsor in a £43 million-a-year deal. Dennis turned it down because he believed the offer was too small. It doesn't rain, it pours at McLaren ...
IMO Papa Ron has done himself a great deal of mismanaging since he came back. Too many big words and arrogance and virtually no return on his promises. Sure...not completely his fault as no one could have foreseen the utter shambles the Honda ''engine'' (I'm almost embarrassed to call it that) has been. They need a solid year next year where they're at least constantly fighting with Williams in the top 10 and have sniffs at podiums or it could be a sad end to what has been a very successful story.
It could indeed. It took a long time to build up a team like McLaren, but a few hickups could send it in F1 history. The only saving grace is that the brand has established a good road car compagny that has a promising future, IMO. The irony is that wanting to create his own road cars , Ron Dennis started a conflict of interest for McLaren with its main shareholder and F1 engine supplier: Mercedes. What we are witnessing is the aftermath of that divorce, and McLaren desperate shotgun marriage with Honda. Had Ron Dennis not resisted the buy-out proposal and abandoned his road car dream also, the Mercedes F1 team would now be the ex-McLaren team.
