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Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column

"After the Malaysian GP, Ron looked like a man who might never want to quit"

Autosport Magazine Apr 18, 2007, 2:37 PM

'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!