Video: Ron Dennis Tries to Poach Michael Schumacher

I can’t decide who’s more arrogant out of the two..

With such a “warm” conversation is it any wonder Michael Schumacher never drove for McLaren?

Date: Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Category: Formula 1 Teams, Ex-F1 Drivers, Formula 1 Video

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Ankit on July 6th, 2007 at 12:11 am

Never seen this video before

Wow, thanks for sharing !!!

And did Ron just call Michael horrendously impressive ???

And to me it looked like Ron was trying to threaten Michael, but i could be wrong also. All this cough medication might be causing hallucinations
dScribe on July 6th, 2007 at 10:11 am

Hi Ankit

I think Ron must have been drunk because:
a) He complimented Michael on his driving skills.
b) His “look after yourself” comment was so wrong!!

But to be fair to Ron, I think he was just telling Michael not to overdrive the car.. but he used the strangest choice of words! Michael seemed to put the threatening spin on it

The funny thing is Ron should probably be having the “look after yourself” conversation with Fernando Alonso (because he certainly is overdriving)
AJ on September 17th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

It sounded very respectful, professional and open to me.

@Ankit - “it looked like Ron was trying to threaten Michael, but I could be wrong also” - yeah, very wrong. He was suggesting Michael pay more attention to risk management, (probably as a result of witnessing several drivers kill themselves with bad judgement calls during his careeer). Michael was simply reacting with his usual ego.
Louis on April 17th, 2008 at 12:40 am

You can`t blame him for trying, to get the best F1 driver in the world. I don`t thing we will ever see a better driver in the near future.

Fun F1