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Dennis: Fighting spirit still manifested in today s McLaren

Ron Dennis believes that the mentality that pervaded the McLaren operation he inherited in the 1980s still exists in the current set-up, despite massive growth – and success – in the intervening years. Dennis, who now oversees the entire McLaren Group having moved on from the F1 team at the end of 2008, took control of a team seemingly losing its way some years removed from the championships claimed by Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt, but immediately recognised the qualities that it possessed. “McLaren had won world championships in 1974 and 1976, then failed to get to grips with ground-effect technology [and] had a few mediocre years, but were down rather than out,” he explained...
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