Ron Dennis Quotations

We've won eight races out of 11 this season. That is normally enough for both a driver and team to dominate the standings. Our target now is to win the remaining races and if we can do that, we will feel quite good about ourselves as we look to next season.

The psychological blow of it raining halfway through qualifying in Australia was much greater than we anticipated,

We're just going to ask them to be sensible.

Nobody came out of Indianapolis with anything positive and perpetuating the negatives was clearly not constructive to Formula One,

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

If they start to pick up points then those people who are subjected to the loss of points will probably be very vocal about it.

I am delighted that the senate and the world council have held that way too.

But from our perspective, and we are not hiding from our inadequacies, it is statistically not borne out that we have huge reliability problems because if that was the case we would not have won 10 races.

His problem was not the engine, his problem was the tyre selection.

Juan Pablo was just cruising and it's massively frustrating.

Juan is great to work with, very cool and philosophical and he is part of an exciting future for McLaren,

I think the difference in the discussions that have taken place in the last month ... is that the push now is more towards what is in the long term interests of Formula One. That is where probably the acquisition from the banks of the equity by CVC has been most positively felt because they want stability, they want growth and now we participate in that growth so everybody has a very common interest.

I think it was not a great decision by Williams so we are doubly frustrated. We had a comfortable, well-judged, disciplined, team-oriented race which should have been a comfortable one-two.

It is massively frustrating on a tight circuit, and it is massively frustrating when drivers are not observing blue flags.

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.

Pizzonia exited the pits ... having seen that Pizzonia waved him past, he overtook carefully, pulled in front and at the next corner Pizzonia just drove straight in the back of him.

That championship is far from over and we will continue to fight hard for it. To leave here leading the constructors' championship and being a little bit closer on the drivers' would have been great for us and also great for Formula One, but unfortunately that did not happen. We have now won eight races out of 11 and that is normally a season which has seen both team and driver dominate both championships. But I don't feel frustration with the past.

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

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

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.

We did not recover from that. That is where we lost the championship. We should have pulled ourselves together a bit more and we should have taken, strangely enough, a few more risks in those opening races.

We want to be the best and the only way of achieving this objective is by attracting the best people.

We think there has been some showmanship from some of the teams but, at the end of the day, if we are not there we won't be too far away.

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.

We are very comfortable with the outcome of today's qualifying session and we look forward to our race strategy unfolding.

Both drivers put in a faultless performance today which should have given the team maximum points. Kimi claimed his win in a disciplined and controlled manner in very difficult conditions. Juan Pablo was the innocent victim of other people's mistakes but this should not distract from his race which was executed with true team spirit. We of course take some satisfaction from winning eight of the last 11 Grands Prix. As you can imagine we are looking forward to Brazil in a positive frame of mind.

As I fall farther and farther behind, it's going to take longer for them to rebuild their houses,

The whole team, including the drivers, psychologically over-reacted to the first grand prix and the qualifying.

Our computer simulation said a second and third was possible, based on our Friday dry running. The race win was never at any stage predicted by our system.

Norbert's frustration is if it costs us the constructors' championship it is not particularly nice,

There's a point at which you've just got to take a more moral position and say, you are asking too much, and we are very close to that point.

It's extremely positive for Formula One, ... intention was to turn their share certificates into money. This new shareholder has an interest in developing Formula One.

It was an absolutely blameless situation for Juan Pablo, he was really the blameless victim of other people's mistakes,

It's a good result for us. We showed we can win the remaining races.

It is virtually impossible to go out now in a session and drive round uninterrupted by a whole gaggle of slow cars who don't look in their mirrors,

It's frustrating not to achieve the result we want at the end of a season where we have finished on the podium 18 times and claimed 10 victories.

I'm looking forward to it that is for sure.

I hope he had flood insurance, ... They had some serious water run through here.

If there is (rule) clarity then that will definitely encourage us to move in that direction.

His commitment at the moment is exceptional. He's doing a lot of things by choice to try and put himself in a position where he hits the ground running.

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.

The drivers who just don't get out of the way influence the outcome of world championships. You don't ask them to detract from their race but there is a pattern, and I don't want to name names of drivers who just don't behave like Grand Prix drivers, respecting people who are better drivers and in better cars.

The drivers' motivation in the opening laps of that first race were mixed with frustration, they ran wide, damaged the cars, and that really set the tone for the remaining intercontinental races.

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

The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.

I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job.

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

McLaren started as the dream of one man, and it's since grown to encompass the hopes and dreams of more than 2000 men and women.

In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

As I've always said, McLaren exists to win, and win we will.

I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.