Thank you for having me. Oh, its a great pleasure to have you here. I have read how you fell in love with motorsport as a teenager. I think you went to brands hatch when you were a teenager and just loved the smells, the sights of it. Do you still have that love of motorsport today . I still enjoy watching a grand prix, but save for that, its really a thing of the past for me. The main reason for me changing direction, i dont even know how to spell retirement, was really the looming of my 70th birthday. And it was a little scrappy at the end, i have to say, primarily driven by disagreement over the value of my shares. But once. In the mclaren group, which you had done so much to create and to build. Well. I like to feel that i pretty much built it. Of course, no one individual builds anything, but, um, when i left the building on my 70th birthday, because that was very symbolic to me. Mm. It was really a full stop in a chapter of my life. I want to take you right back. I mean, it seems
Sir ron dennis, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Oh, its a great pleasure to have you here. I have read how you fell in love with motorsport as a teenager. I think you went to brands hatch when you were a teenager and just loved the smells, the sights of it. Do you still have that love of motorsport today . I still enjoy watching a grand prix, but save for that, its really a thing of the past for me. The main reason for me changing direction, i dont even know how to spell retirement, was really the looming of my 70th birthday. And it was a little scrappy at the end, i have to say, primarily driven by disagreement over the value of my shares. But once. In the mclaren group, which you had done so much to create and to build. Well. I like to feel that i pretty much built it. Of course, no one individual builds anything, but, um, when i left the building on my 70th birthday, because that was very symbolic to me. Mm. It was really a full stop in a chapter of my life. I want to