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Ron Dennis views on Alsonso job prospects
britishtrident - 7/11/07 at 08:48 PM

http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/racinglines/archive/2007/11/03/what-next-for-alonso.aspx

Fatgadget - 7/11/07 at 09:15 PM

Ouch!

russbost - 7/11/07 at 10:15 PM

AHHHHHHHHHHHH, shame.

carpmart - 7/11/07 at 10:18 PM

Well, that about sums it up!

locogeoff - 7/11/07 at 10:56 PM

Dennis is a fud

Alonso will be back at Renault or Toyota in a flash and turn round their operations, cause lets look at the evidence

3 years ago Renault where crap, along comes Alonso bingo 2 WDC

Last year McLaren where crap, along comes Alonso, bingo McLaren great once again, no cigar but great improvement on performance, now was that due to Alonso or due to them being cheating bar stewards, and now the scab has been picked off of that one I would have to say the improvement is due to Alonso not Ferrari data.

So to get to my point Alonso could be a godam wife beater and F1 teams who seriously wan't to win will hire him because he is good at what he does best (develop and race). It will be interesting to see how good the McLaren is next season undeniably Hamilton is fast, but can he develop the car

[Edited on 7/11/07 by locogeoff]

Paul TigerB6 - 7/11/07 at 11:28 PM

quote:
Originally posted by locogeoff

Last year McLaren where crap, along comes Alonso, bingo McLaren great once again, no cigar but great improvement on performance, now was that due to Alonso or due to them being cheating bar stewards, and now the scab has been picked off of that one I would have to say the improvement is due to Alonso not Ferrari data.

[Edited on 7/11/07 by locogeoff]


Seeing as designing next year's car is substantially carried out before it gets near a test track and Alonso wouldnt have got near this year's McClaren before pre-season testing (and the Ferrari dosier was far too late to have any real influence on the 2007 McClaren) then I think its pretty demeaning to the hundreds of McClaren employees involved to say that the car was only fast because of a driver.

I'd say its the designers and engineers who find the big gains, with the drivers gaining the last few 10ths / 100ths working with the engineers.

RK - 8/11/07 at 12:28 AM

It is not in the interests of the team owners/sponsors to have a driver who has much say. They have learned to dump guys once they become successful and replace them with cheaper labour - no matter how ugly it gets (ask Jacques Villeneuve, although he didn't play his cards very well, from the look of it all). They really don't think much of the hired driving help. MS is the exception.

speedyxjs - 8/11/07 at 08:13 AM


I still think he will be in a renault

britishtrident - 8/11/07 at 08:25 AM

quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs

I still think he will be in a renault


Flavio has made him a formal offer but Alonso hasn't responded ---- I think he was expecting more than tuppence a week.

designer - 8/11/07 at 08:51 AM

How much did they pay to get rid of him??

matt_claydon - 8/11/07 at 09:50 AM

Have I missed something? That article doesn't say anything about Ron Dennis' views other than a rumour the he said he 'didn't know and couldn't care less' where Alonso was going. The rest of the article is just the views of some journalist.

I would also, like designer, be interested to know what the terms of severing the contract were

Hammerhead - 8/11/07 at 10:29 AM

I read an article that said there was no financial penalty either way.