McG wrote: ↑10 Aug 2018, 16:50
Big Tea wrote: ↑08 Aug 2018, 21:41
I am not going to gossip monger, but if you search Bahrain GP and the names there is 'another version of the rumor' being attributed to it.
I KNOW NOTHING OF IT, just an attempt to centralise speculation if not reduce it
Or you could provide a link, reputable source would be welcomed.
I don't have a 'reputable source' That is the problem. It is all picked up from here and there, but it does not seem to involve any personal or family related incidents, which is the way it usually seems to go.
{Heresay, and I stress it is that, goes Ron Dennis and Ojjah seem to have had a voting agreement that they vote the same way, but Ron was unable to attend the meeting when the 'problem' was on at Bahrain and Ojjah used both votes in the wrong direction.
There is an article here (https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comme ... our_ojjeh/)
but again I stress it is something that came up when I googled it, the author is unknown to me, but it is very close to what I believe}
Edit.
This is off Joe's Blog at the time. That seems reputable.
As I understand it, the role of chairman at McLaren rotates between the shareholders and on this particular issue, Ojjeh was chairman. He was obligated to vote with Dennis but, in that particular meeting, he was chairman and had the right to cast the deciding vote. He did what he felt was right and voted against Dennis (and himself). Dennis took this as a betrayal and the relationship was broken. Ojjeh was a very sick man at the time and there are many confusing stories about what was going on, but the reality is that the problem came down to a matter of opinion over the Bahrain GP – and, in many ways, both sides were right. F1 probably should not have been there, but things were nowhere near as bad as they were portrayed.
Whole article, but the
https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2016/11 ... mclaren-2/ part is above.
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https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2016/11 ... mclaren-2/)
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