Entries Tagged as 'ron dennis'

Wednesday, December 31st, 1969

Rumormill: McLaren facing exclusion from 2007 F1 Championship

Filed under: Motorsports

Thursday, September 13th, the World Motor Sport Council will meet to decide on whether McLaren should be punished for industrial espionage in the Stepneygate affair. What had been winding its way to a peaceful conclusion has now been blown back open with the recent revelation that the drivers exchanged information that came from […]

Wednesday, December 31st, 1969

“Stepneygate” verdict reached: McLaren stripped of ‘07 championship points, fined $100 million

Filed under: Motorsports

The ongoing “Stepneygate” espionage scandal that has embroiled Formula 1 this summer has drawn to a conclusion (for the time being, at least), and the World Motor Sport Council has meted out some severe punishment. McLaren F1 has been stripped of all its constructors’ championship points for the 2007 season and fined $100,000,000 […]

Wednesday, December 31st, 1969

McLaren and Prodrive sitting in a tree, R-A-C-I-N-G

Filed under: Motorsports

F1 panjandrums have been working all year on a suitable definition of the term “non-constructor.” If they can get that done soon, and then figure out how to split F1 income among constructors and non, then Prodrive will officially join the 2008 F1 circus.
McLaren and Prodrive have recently signed a “detailed commercial […]

Wednesday, December 31st, 1969

F1: Alonso headed to… McLaren?

Filed under: Motorsports

Fernando Alonso, recently let go from the telenovela known as the McLaren F1 Team, is in a bit of a quandary. He’s looking for a team that can keep him at the top of the standings, but he only wants to sign a contract for a year. That’s because the teams he really […]

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