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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Just saw a special on BBC's 5th gear about McLaren's facility at Woking. Appears that there is no "off season" nor holidays, or possibly even weekends, especially during race season at McLaren! Have always heard that Ron Dennis is a tough person to work for.
The Ferarri team just left here, was in Bahrain doing winter testing for over a week. Very interesting talking with them. They feel that FIA changed the regulations to keep them from winning in 2005. I brought up that the sport needed some more competition and they agreed that it did not help that they swept the series for many years in a row but were hoping to return to the top in 2006. They were not happy at all having to go to a V-8 engine but feel that most all of the teams feel that way.
Oh well, 4.5 months until the next race... Hope Spa is on the schedule this year.
Joe A
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