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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: commitment
2 Mar 2026 Acquired Formula 1
“We're still loyal to McLaren. But we will give you an engine so that you can compete with your team this season and not shut it down.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 2 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Formula 1
Transcript context
…Yeah, they at this point in time do not have a team. And since that horrific crash all those decades before, not in F1. Not in F1. But they had been supplying engines to McLaren. Mercedes says, OK, Ross Brawn, we have our McLaren relationship. That's very important to us. But we respect you and your body of work at Ferrari. And we respect what you're trying to do here. We will supply you an engine for 2009. We're still loyal to McLaren. But we will give you an engine so that you can compete with your team this season and not shut it down. And it sort of doesn't fit in the chassis that Honda had developed. They had to do some real aftermarket janky stuff. Everyone thinks this car is going to absolutely suck.…
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