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McLaren Group boss Ron Dennis has insisted its revised Formula One deal with Mercedes will make the company stronger.

Mercedes-Benz announced on Monday that it was to focus its efforts on Brawn GP , bringing an end to what had been an exclusive tie-up with McLaren. Merecdes will continue to supply engines to McLaren until at least 2015, however.

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I hope that's not like Ferrari and their second division team getting last years spec engines!

ron dennis should be Sir Ron Dennis and MB leaving the team will be a fantastic thing for Mclaren (they will so totally thrive) and i think Mclaren will start and use their own F1 developed engines when the deal with MB finally ends re. engine contract.

Ron Dennis is fantastically brilliant, super clever and highly astute; go Mclaren! go RD!

I hope McLaren does indeed thrive with their new-found independence from the corporate shackles of Daimler.  It would be nice to see a British company truly succeed.

Only in the weird parallel universe that is F1 can Mercedes-Benz pulling out of McLaren be the best thing to happen to McLaren since, er, Mercedes-Benz bought in to McLaren.

It will be interesting to see how they fair over the next couple of years.  Certainly I can see why Ron Dennis would be happy about having the shackles released and being allowed to go their own route with certain parts of the development, but this is the same situation Williams found themselves in a couple of years ago and look where they are now.

I would like to think that McLaren is slightly better organised but without the "Mercedes" on board how is that going to change peoples perceptions of the team.........  including a certain Mr L Hamilton.