Proof that Ron has wires for veins?

These excerpts from an interview Ron Dennis gave recently to F1’s official website hint that McLaren’s boss is actually a state-of-the-art robot, designed and built by Vodafone, McLaren and Mercedes.

Quote 1

“I remain unflinchingly committed to the McLaren Group and the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, and remain passionately engaged in leading the McLaren Group into exciting new areas of business, exemplified by, but not confined to, the groundbreaking projects currently being evaluated by McLaren Automotive.”

Quote 2…

Lewis and Kovi feeling benefit of power boost, claims BMW

Rival teams believe Mercedes’ V8 engine is kicking out about 25 horsepower more than any other 2.4 litre unit on the F1 grid. That might explain why the team has managed to gain an edge on Ferrari in the last three GPs.

McLaren boss hits back at former driver

No doubt fed up with Alonso’s big mouth, Ron Dennis has returned fire with a verbal volley in the Spaniard’s general direction. Speaking about the prickly subject of team orders at Hungary last weekend, Ron said:

“When you’re in a team and you know your teammate has the opportunity to win the race and you don’t, if you have the right values that are not lodged solely and exclusively in your own motives and your own objectives and your own selfishness, then you take a decision which is to allow the driver past and allow him a chance to win the race.”

He also insisted that “only one” former McLaren driver has ever complained about driver inequality. Hmm, wonder who that might be?

The muse is strong with Grid Crasher

Poor Heikki
In Hungary
Finns can only get better

Kovi has had lousy luck so far - some of his own making, we admit - so it’s about time he caught a break. With Mercedes boss Norbert Haug hinting this week that Heikki will keep his seat in 2009 - “It can be assumed that Kovalainen is staying with us,” Haug told German press agency dpa - this is the Finn’s chance to show how good he really is.

Lewis’s team reinvents the wheel…

McLaren have overtaken Ferrari as the team to beat in F1. Much of the credit must go to the steallar driving of championship leader Lewis Hamilton, but he has been helped immensely by one McLaren innovation…

Have your say…

Heikki is Lewis’s No.2, his wingman, his Goose, his gimp, his bitch.

Kovi seems very popular within McLaren - almost above criticism, it seems - because he is the perfect team-mate for Hamilton. In other words, he’s a nice guy who doesn’t speak out, and he always lets Lewis overtake him when the need arises.

But… the Finn has made it to the podium just once in ten races. In one of the best two cars on the grid. That’s the sort of performance that should see Kovi’s seat under threat. But it seems McLaren may take up an option on Heikki for 2009.

DC confirms what we already knew

We’ll leave it to Coutlhard to tell you about his decision to quit F1 at the end of this season:

“I would like to announce today my decision to retire from racing in Formula 1 at the end of this season. I will remain actively involved in the sport as a consultant to Red Bull Racing focusing on testing and development of the cars.

“I have an open mind as to whether or not I will compete again in the future, in some other form of motorsport, so I am definitely not hanging up my helmet!”

McLaren driver wants to stay with team and live happily ever after

Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he wants to stay at McLaren until he quits F1. In an interview with German publication Auto Motor und Sport, the British driver said “My plan is to stay with McLaren for the rest of my career”.

Lewis is contracted to McLaren until 2012, but he said he’d feel “lucky” to sign another contract that would tie him to the team until he hangs up his racing gloves and overalls.

He also compared being at McLaren to being part of “a big family”, and said that the team - especially Ron Dennis, who he has known for 13 years - helps to take much of the pressure of his shoulders.

We have to stop typing now…no, we’re not crying - that’s from chopping oinions, honestly.

Ron Dennis denies McLaren role in Nazi orgy-gate

To answer the headline question: no, not that we know of. But here’s the thing: Radovan Novak, the general secretary of the Czech Automobile Association and an old buddy of Max Mosley’s, reportedly told a Prague radio station that he believes the Nazi orgy sex scandal might be linked to the $100m fine which was imposed on McLaren in 2007, after they were found guilty of espionage by the FIA – if that wasn’t a decent reason for McLaren boss Ron Dennis to want to dig some dirt on Mosley, we don’t know what is.

McLaren boss Ron Dennis makes fun of Pole’s streamlined conk

McLaren boss Ron Dennis, the David Brent of F1, showed that he does have a heart hidden somewhere beneath that soulless, corporate exterior. When asked by SpeedTV about the weight of Robert Kubica’s BMW Sauber, he replied: “He could lose a lot more weight if he had his nose fixed…”

Watch Ron’s gaffe below (before it gets taken down by the suits at F1)…