Ron Dennis
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"Ronald Dennis" Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire/CBE is a British people/British businessman, Formula One Team Principal and is an Official British Business Ambassador. Dennis is the Global Consultant for Minsheng Investment Group, Owner of Absolute Taste. He is most well known for his role as owner, CEO, chairman and founder of McLaren Technology Group which houses a Formula 1 team, Technology Company and more.

Since 1981, Dennis has been the team principal of the McLaren Formula One team, and was instrumental in transforming the outfit into a regular world championship contender. Constructors' and drivers' world championships were won with Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen and Lewis Hamilton.

After being handed a 3 page business plan by a chef for his Formula One team, he set up a catering company, Absolute Taste, today retaining 55% of the company.

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Alonso got a points advantage which has allowed him to cruise a little bit but we still feel we did everything we thought was right in the early races.

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I wouldn't wish anything on anybody, but Alonso could slip over in the bath, couldn't he.

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We had a great strategy and Kimi drove an excellent race. The mathematics clearly demonstrate we are still capable of winning both world titles, but of course it is going to be somewhat challenging.

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We anticipate long term relationships with both Kimi and Juan Pablo and consequently, the team is not in negotiations with any other driver, including Michael Schumacher.

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We anticipate long-term relationships with both Kimi, who is currently competing in his fourth season with us, and Juan Pablo (Montoya).

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Pedro's problem finished his run prematurely, but this will not hamper our programme for the weekend, ... Other than that, it was a successful Friday practice where we ran through our programme and achieved the results, in terms of speed and consistency, that we had expected going into this weekend.

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The mathematics clearly demonstrate that we are still capable of winning both world championships, but of course it's going to be somewhat challenging.

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