Ron Dennis

Belov was just a crazy fast boy.

You have driven for Uncle Ken, Guy Ligier, Bernie, Frank, Ron Dennis.

Who was the best team

owner? I see you can get into trouble answering questions like that.

Let's see

if you can answer this question.

After Kimi left Formula One, he called Ron Dennis a control freak.

What's your take on his comment? Was that a cheap shot or is there more to it?

And even in the junior categories, there was a bit of a buzz about him and a bit of a competition between the teams to sign him.

And Ron Dennis even offered to pay for his F3 season if he would commit to McLaren.

Long term, Senna turned it down.

He didn't want to have someone else controlling his destiny.

And you could trigger that and you could move.

It's a three-year deal with Tolman.

And there'd been some kind of vague conversations with Tolman and the Tolman boss, Alex Hawkeridge, incidentally, who'd made a similar offer to Ron Dennis that Ron Dennis made to Senna to fund him in.

But Senna wanted to stay flexible.

The F2007 failed to match the superior pace of the silver-colored rivals.

Ron Dennis mentioned in passing in Istanbul that he was really looking forward to Monza.

Now it is clear why.

Niki Lauda, former triple world champion, says that he reckons there's no possibility that Ferrari was sandbagging during the Monza event, contrary to what Steve and I said on my last show.

Yep, they're in full throttle.

In fact, Dave, I'm pretty sure I saw Ron Dennis behind the Armco scattering drawing pins whenever Oscar drove past.

Did you see that? Nothing sinister, though.

Just a retired team principal doing some light gardening, I'm sure.

All these are junior categories and eventually gets F1.

Luckily for him, he gets noticed by Ron Dennis and McLaren and moves up there.

and then you've got esteban alcon whose parents literally had to sell their house and remortgage it to help him travel across europe to finally help him get to f1 and let's not forget guys nigel mansell back in the 90s dude used to literally have to clean windows to help make up enough money to support himself in the lower category to try and get to you know f1 but the man had a dream kept it going and somehow you know got noticed by the right people did what he did with the talent and eventually you know it got up there and uh i think programs like this what drivers are doing that was really nice because at least it helps you know like i said drivers who have the talent but don't necessarily have uh the deep pockets to help make it through to you know some of these categories in sports and I hope this starts something and you know, maybe even Lewis Hamilton might start something like this and other drivers too.

Who knows? We'll see.