{"id":4408,"date":"2010-04-14T06:47:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2010-04-14T06:47:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:47:51","slug":"mclaren-initiated-mercedes-split-dennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-initiated-mercedes-split-dennis\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren initiated Mercedes split &#8211; Dennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">McLaren initiated its split with former works partner and major shareholder Mercedes, according to Ron Dennis.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old chairman of the Woking based company now heads McLaren&#8217;s own production road car division, and Mercedes&#8217; Norbert Haug said recently that the project &#8220;was not our way and we found an amicable solution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis said the reason for the split was McLaren&#8217;s wish to be independent, after years of pressure from Mercedes to relinquish control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We initiated it (the split), we wanted to be independent,&#8221; he said in an interview with Arabian Business.\u00a0 &#8220;This wasn&#8217;t something which we weren&#8217;t party to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis said the situation also worked out for Mercedes, who have taken over and rebranded the former Brawn team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t call it a sweetheart deal, but it was a win-win situation,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They got exactly what they wanted: a grand prix team they had complete control over &#8212; and we had continuous engine supply and the ability to promote our product and build the McLaren brand,&#8221; added Dennis.<\/p>\n<p>He said Mercedes originally wanted full control of McLaren, who have now almost completely bought back the German marque&#8217;s 40 per cent share.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more they wanted it (control), the less we wanted to give it to them,&#8221; explained Dennis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because you look at what happens &#8230; the influence they (carmakers) control is not always productive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren initiated its split with former works partner and major shareholder Mercedes, according to Ron Dennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5261,5340,5284,8,242,880],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}