Dennis: McLaren road car plans “categorically” right thing to do 08/12/2009 |
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McLaren boss Ron Dennis insists the company is right to develop its own range of road cars despite the strategy contributing to Mercedes’ decision to sell its stake in the Formula 1 team.
Dennis is heading up McLaren’s plans to build a range of sports cars, starting with the MP4-12C, but Mercedes that as one of the reasons it is selling its stake in McLaren in favour of taking over Brawn.
However, Dennis said at the Autosport Awards: “It is really a development of the brand.
“We have had some great partners – and I have to mention Mercedes-Benz. They have been phenomenally strong partners [for] us, and there was a time when we had to think hard and long about what was the right thing for McLaren.
“When I look at the achievements of Ferrari and what we intend for McLaren, it is absolutely categorically the right thing for us to plough our own furrow. It is a win-win situation for everyone.
“I am delighted for Brawn and the Mercedes GP team of the future, and we were extremely supportive of solving the problems with Brawn. It is the way we have always been in F1. We take decisions for the benefit of F1, most of the time, if not all the time.
“I have had ups and downs in my career and I accept that being the boss you have to take the responsibility sometimes for things that are not always in your own mind your responsibility. But nevertheless that is part of being a boss and that is what I have had to do.”
Dennis has also played down suggestions that he will return to the F1 side of the business.
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