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The Mclaren F1 was and remains the benchmark for high performance road cars. Designed by Gordon Murray and built in Woking using a small highly trained team of automotive professionals working under the steely gaze of Ron Dennis, it subscribes to the Colin Chapman school of light weight, massive power and razor sharp handling. Not for the faint -hearted, Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson is famously scathing about the F1′s twitchiness, but that might just be sour grapes. His ex – colleague and fellow presenter Tiff Neeedel is a a much bigger fan of the F1, calling it ‘ a triumph of engineering skill that stands up in 2008 as much as it did it 1994.’

It is the Autosport Racing car show on at the moment in Birmingham.  Sadly funds and timing preclude me from going this year, the first time in ages, but following it on the web it was good to read another strong interview by Ron Dennis (McLaren CEO).  As he nears the end of his career it is fascinating to see how he chooses to spend the rest of his life and nice to hear he will be pursuing a path to genuinely help others.  Similar in many ways (but of course different in scale!) to Bill Gates.  The scientific approach to developing F1 is a good one, although there are better market sensing techniques that “market research surveys” – sometimes gut feel has its place too.

Read what he had to say here

Looks like there is a new driver database online for all those budding Lewis Hamiltons! Someone has kindly uploaded my stats for this year too which is very nice of them. Check out the website if you get the chance (click here)