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Lewis Hamilton has vowed to continue to work hard to make his long-time mentor Ron Dennis proud.
Dennis confirmed last week he was standing down as chairman of the McLaren Group and as CEO of McLaren Racing, ending 28 years in charge of the Woking-based team.
After severing his ties with Formula One, the 61-year-old is to take up the chairmanship of McLaren Automotive with the aim of building a new sports car from 2011.
Hamilton said: “Ron is an incredible man and we all owe him more than we could ever repay him for building this great team,” remarked Hamilton.
“Both my family and I are going to do our best to …Â Details
Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali says the struggling Italian team may switch their development focus to the 2010 car as early as next month, if their fortunes do not improve dramatically in the next few races.
In what has been a disastrous season, Ferrari have failed to score a point in the first three races of the Formula One season, their worst start to a campaign since 1981.
After Sunday’s China Grand Prix, Domenicali hinted at the possibility of the team abandoning the development push on their current car…Â Details
… Memo Gidley, the Indy Car/prototype ace who co-drives the #77 Doran McDonald’s Dallara-Ford with Brad Jaeger, has been busy during the layoff between Daytona and VIR: he scored a podium finish in Superkarts Shifter Kart race; spoke to a group of 3rd, 4th and 5th-graders at Lynwood Elementary School during “No Excuses Career Day”; won the Super 800 class in a Jet-Ski competition and tested vintage Grand Prix cars, including a 1956 Maserati 250F driven to victory in the Australian Grand Prix by Sterling Moss…Â Details