F1 News - McLaren Taking a "Diplomatic" Stance

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05-14-2009, 11:25 PM

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F1 News - McLaren Taking a "Diplomatic" Stance

This is highly quesionable. Sounds like Mosely has Woking by the balls.

05-15-2009, 12:03 AM

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"Diplomatic" may be the best word to describe McLaren F1. Ever. Period.

05-15-2009, 12:38 AM

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The last paragraph hits it on the head.

05-15-2009, 02:04 AM

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If Mercedes-McLaren were to leave F1 now, something tells me that they may never come back to the sport.

05-15-2009, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Alzilla

If Mercedes-McLaren were to leave F1 now, something tells me that they may never come back to the sport.

You may be right; they've got McLaren successors to design/build/engineer anyway. They could move on to Le Mans maybe. Or NASCAR

(they would just love Ron Dennis)

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05-15-2009, 03:14 AM

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Can't you guys see the back room meeting in your mind. It went something like this:

Max: Achtung Norbert! You back me up on everything I have to say about the budget crap coming up or McLaren is OUT OF F1.

Norbert: Yes sir.

Max. Shit. You ain't no Ron Dennis....

05-15-2009, 09:50 AM

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when will all this be settled? is there a date when the rules become final?

05-15-2009, 09:57 AM

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There's a date by which the constructors have to indicate that they will be contesting the next season. I just read a short blurb indicating that Montezomolo missed today's FOTA meeting at Heathrow since his father died; today was the day to hammer out some sort of compromise/bargain collectively. Bad news that Ferrari's representative wasn't there...