The Latest Breaking News from Ron Dennis

In football it’s become a cliché, but no less true for being repeated, that you’re only as good as your last game. Even managers with the most gilded of track records can be ignominiously fired if their team’s form slips into a prolonged dip.

In football it’s become a cliché, but no less true for being repeated, that you’re only as good as your last game. Even managers with the most gilded of track records can be ignominiously fired if their team’s form slips into a prolonged dip.

“Ayrton, we’ve decided to forget the Rio test. We’ll shake the new cars down at Silverstone instead, on Thursday and Friday of this week…” Ron Dennis let the words hang in the air, and with a broad grin listened for the world champion’s response across the 5000-mile telephone link separating…

The year is 2004 and David Coulthard is in his final season with McLaren. DC knows that his future will not be with the Woking-based team and that a certain Juan Pablo Montoya is set to take his place. He has to look for other options and attracts interest from…

The year is 2004 and David Coulthard is in his final season with McLaren. DC – as the Scot is known – knows that his future will not be with the Woking-based team and that a certain Juan Pablo Montoya is set to take his place. He has to look…

Over 20 years ago, when Adrian Newey worked at McLaren, a story went around the Formula 1 paddock that he had effectively locked himself in his office with his drawing board. Once he’d finished sketching a design, went the gossip, he pushed it through a letterbox for collection by aero…

The walls of Adrian Newey's office have already been painted, Andy Cowell revealed during testing in Bahrain. It refers to an anecdote from Newey's time at McLaren, when the designer added more colour to his office, leaving Ron Dennis utterly speechless, as the team boss was used to everything grey.…

The walls of Adrian Newey's office have already been painted, Andy Cowell revealed during testing in Bahrain. It refers to an anecdote from Newey's time at McLaren, when the designer added more colour to his office, leaving Ron Dennis utterly speechless, as the team boss was used to everything grey.…

Picture the scene: a gala dinner in Buenos Aires with hundreds of dignitaries present, honouring the five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio. But this is a solemn rather than a joyous gathering.