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'Oh, Ron just wants to sell up and get out...' For several years now paddock people have been saying that, and the man himself has never denied his wish, sooner rather than later, to step back from Formula 1 on a day-to-day basis. Being the sort of fellow he is, Dennis would find unthinkable 'retirement' in the conventional sense of the word, but he is 60 this year, and has more than once said: "There are other things I want to do." At a McLaren lunch last December, he talked about it a little. "Well, Martin [Whitmarsh] has spent the last 10 years trying to persuade me to retire - and for the last three he's intensified his efforts! "In respect of F1, Martin does the vast majority of the work, but at the end of the day I'm passionate about F1, and most people's perception of retirement is that you stop working. Mine is completely different: it's just a systematic back-off. There isn't a plan, as such - there is a strategy, endlessly discussed between Martin and myself. © 2020 Autosport
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The magnificent seven set to contest FE's title showdown After a five-month pause, the 2019-20 Formula E season finally resumes with a six-race Berlin showdown. Although anyone can still mathematically win, seven drivers stand above the rest based on form and history. Autosport judges their credentials FE 
The engineer who took Reynard to another level Senior technical transfers between customer racing car manufacturers were rare at the height of their 1990s pomp. But Bruce Ashmore's move from Lola to Reynard bucked the trend and set in motion a shift in the balance of power in US open-wheel racing Engineering 
Ask Tim: Why Albon isn't the biggest scapegoat at Red Bull A heavy crash in FP2, dropping out in Q2 and an early skirmish with Kevin Magnussen meant Alexander Albon's British Grand Prix performance came under the microscope, but Autosport's technical expert says there's another figure that has been harshly treated F1 
Why Silverstone is "not friends" with tyres A series of high-profile failures late on in the British Grand Prix led to a heart-stopping finish for winner Lewis Hamilton. But with another race on the tyre-punishing Silverstone coming this week, there is cause for deep concern F1 
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