Mutua Madrileña terminates its contract with McLaren Mercedes







Mutua Madrileña has decided to terminate its contract with the McLaren team, as it will not sponsor the team for next season, announced today the insurer. The company that is presided over by Jose Maria Ramirez Pomatta, whose contract with McLaren was for two seasons, explained that this step was taken in November and is not linked to the decision of Fernando Alonso leaving the team. Mutua Madrileña had three seasons in Formula 1. The insurer came into Formula 1 in April 2005, when it became the official sponsor of the team Renault Formula 1.


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Mutua Madrileña terminates its contract with McLaren Mercedes







Mutua Madrileña has decided to terminate its contract with the McLaren team, as it will not sponsor the team for next season, announced today the insurer. The company that is presided over by Jose Maria Ramirez Pomatta, whose contract with McLaren was for two seasons, explained that this step was taken in November and is not linked to the decision of Fernando Alonso leaving the team. Mutua Madrileña had three seasons in Formula 1. The insurer came into Formula 1 in April 2005, when it became the official sponsor of the team Renault Formula 1.


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D'oh indeed, posted in the wrong section.

Moved it to the correct section.

Mutua Madrileña terminates its contract with McLaren Mercedes







Mutua Madrileña has decided to terminate its contract with the McLaren team, as it will not sponsor the team for next season, announced today the insurer. The company that is presided over by Jose Maria Ramirez Pomatta, whose contract with McLaren was for two seasons, explained that this step was taken in November and is not linked to the decision of Fernando Alonso leaving the team. Mutua Madrileña had three seasons in Formula 1. The insurer came into Formula 1 in April 2005, when it became the official sponsor of the team Renault Formula 1.


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Guess they'll follow the sore loser Alonso to Renault then..................:lol: .

Gee I hope he can cope with his new team mate at Renault's pace.
It would be ever so embarressing to see him beaten by Nelson Piquet Jnr.......................:lol:

Alonso was the best thing to happen to McLaren since the departure of the great Ayrton Senna. Only 3 McLaren former drivers were of Alonso's calibre as a package, namely Lauda, Prost and Senna. McLaren messed up with them too, just as bad, but in Alonso's case they also denied him his rightfull title.
Now they're just starting to pay the price.
Just wish MB would hurry up with HWA.

Alonso was the best thing to happen to McLaren since the departure of the great Ayrton Senna. Only 3 McLaren former drivers were of Alonso's calibre as a package, namely Lauda, Prost and Senna. McLaren messed up with them too, just as bad, but in Alonso's case they also denied him his rightfull title.
Now they're just starting to pay the price.
Just wish MB would hurry up with HWA.

Disagree.... the best thing to happen to Mclaren recently is ...

Lewis Hamilton.

The passing of more time will show who is right about this.

No doubt in my mind that Alonso is not in the same class as those three you mention. He has obvious talent but, various driver errors, nasty tricks and mistakes early in the 2007 season showed he lacked essential qualities the others had in abundance. Hamilton's inexperience cost him the Driver's Championship. He was immaturely inexperienced to try and win the last two races rather than simply drive and finish in the pionts. That's all he needed to do. He will need to suppress that 'must win' every race instinct. That will be hard for him to do but, those last two races this season must have really hurt him and unless he lacks intelligence, which is unlikely, those experiences will teach him how to drive to win the Chamionship and maybe a few races along the way too...... subjects to Stewards interpretation of "The rules" and penalties dished out to their least favourite personalities in F1.

Despite Hamilton's immaturity, he still finished only a single point behind K.R. in a devalued 2007 Championship.

I was never a big admirer of Prost. He was affectionally known as a "Sunday Driver" over here in the UK.... a derogatory term for drivers over here....;) "Mr. Slow" in fact but, he won his Championships simply by finishing races where faster drivers often failed to do so for various reasons. Hamilton would be wise to study that part of the winning technique.

Finally, Hamilton is good enough. Surely DarkOne you must appreciate that and if his 2008/9/10 cars are good enough ... it will be interesting to see how he shapes up and dispel or confirm that his season 2007 was simply a freakish flash in the pan.

Roll on March 2008.

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^ What Lauda, Prost, Senna and Alonso have in common, besides (serious) problems with Ron Dennis, is that they all worked very hard on the car to win. There are all sorts of stories about this, of Lauda testing till he ran out of fuel, of Senna bringing his technicians to desperation as he stayed till the middle of the night to analyse the data and so on. And Schumacher, Stewart, Brabham Andretti (Mario), Surtees were also like this.

I have yet to heard that LH did more than just get a free ride. If there's one of the young blood drivers to follow the total package patern, it is Nico Rosberg.

i think alonso was the fans favourite until he showed his true colours this year

Beleaguered McLaren admit cash shortage

Friday 14th December 2007

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McLaren have admitted their cash shortage from the Stepneygate crisis is even worse than first feared.

Already fined $100m by the FIA for their part in the spy scandal that threatened to derail the 2007 World Championship and which cost the team the Constructors' Championship, McLaren have been further rocked by the implications of their grovelling public admission that 'Ferrari information was more widely disseminated within McLaren than was previously communicated'.

In a highly revealing passage in Martin Whitmarsh's letter of apology to the governing body, the McLaren CEO wrote that: 'Apart from the morale-sapping consequences within the team, its ability to continue its task of generating investment has been made virtually impossible. Consequently, the long-term damage to the team's previously outstanding record and commercial capability is significantly greater than that potentially envisaged by the fiscal penalty imposed.'

The team have pledged to effectively redesign their 2008 charger from scratch - itself an expensive and time-consuming undertaking - and also meet the £1m bill for the FIA's latest investigation.

While there is no question of the team being unable to meet the costs of fielding two cars for the 2008 season, Whitmarsh's admission that the team is struggling to attract investment has increased the possibility of Pedro de la Rosa being appointed Lewis Hamilton's team-mate next season in a bid to appease McLaren's influential and extremely lucrative Spanish sponsors.

oh well with the amount of points lewis will score next year the money will be pouring in:dddc: