Something that doesn't quite add up is why Ron Dennis has not become Sir Ron Dennis...? If I was the British man who has been the driving force behind the second most successful team in F1 behind only the 70 year old Ferrari, for the last 30+ years, I would have thought that, that alone might earn me a Knighthood. The fact that Mr Dennis has also headed up and overseen the growth of the increasingly successful McLaren Automotive over the last 10 years and expanded the expertise of the company into other industries such as Healthcare, through McLaren Applied Technologies, should guarantee to be awarded a Knighthood. The fact that his counterpart at Williams F1, Sir Frank Williams, has been Knighted, only serves to highlight the absence of the title before the name of the other.
So you have to ask why the man has not been honoured in such a way and can only guess as to the reasons. Mr Dennis, is a character that clearly has ruffled feathers in the past and appears to make people either like him or loathe him. I would guess it was one or more of the latter who have managed to block the man from being nominated for a Knighthood. It doesn't take the wildest imagination to guess the likely candidates when looking at Ron's run-ins over the years.
To compound it all, the recent events relating to Mr Dennis' fellow shareholders ousting him from running the F1 team and other parts of the McLaren group, I imagine is just rubbing salt in the wounds. Thankfully, he still holds a 25% shareholding in the McLaren Group and may be able to orchestrate a return to the helm of the Company he clearly loves and has built into the globally respected brand it is today. Others may not be so keen but I say good luck Ron.
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