Ron Dennis’ 35-year residency as the boss of McLaren is reaching an end. The 69-year-old will be told by kindred shareholders on Tuesday that he should surrender his position as director and CEO of the McLaren Group.
He wouldn’t like to venture down and bombed in a High Court offer a week ago to avoid McLaren putting him on ‘cultivating leave’ – yet is probably going to be left with no decision.
It is felt that Dennis’ absolutist style is poorly fitted to developing McLaren later on.
Dennis’ flight would be a seismic move with regards to present day F1, in which he has been a focal figure since 1981.
Dennis joined McLaren in 1980 and took full control in 1981, after which he drove the team to a few times of mastery and transformed it into the best outfit in history after Ferrari.
Under Dennis’ administration, McLaren won 10 drivers’ titles with Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen and Lewis Hamilton and seven constructors’ titles.
Be that as it may, the team has slipped from the front as of late and the choice to unite with engine accomplice Honda drove in 2015 to the most exceedingly bad season in their history.
The exact nature of his departure is to be decided in talks with shareholders. Dennis owns 25% of McLaren Group. Bahrain’s Mumtalakat investment fund owns 50% and the remaining 25% is held by Dennis’s long-time business partner Mansour Ojjeh, a Saudi-born Frenchman. Dennis and Ojjeh fell out some years ago and the 64-year-old has sided with the Bahrainis in trying to remove his former friend.
Honda made its way with F1 when it was not prepared, a choice at any rate halfway down to McLaren, whose engine association with Mercedes was closure in 2014 and who pushed for the Honda arrangement to begin at the earliest opportunity.
Dennis has additionally neglected to secure another title support to supplant cell phone monster Vodafone, which left toward the end of 2013.
In any case, Brown has additionally been connected with a part with new F1 proprietors Liberty Media, heading up their business operation once they finish their takeover of the F1 Group one year from now.
Sources near Brown say he is more probable at this phase to acknowledge the McLaren offer however has not settled on a ultimate conclusion.
Dennis’ takeoff would likewise bring up issues about the eventual fate of McLaren Racing CEO Jost Capito.
