I just got to watch this and its a brilliant story, not about the sterile Ron Dennis era of McLaren but of its Kiwi founder and the British guys that kept it going, if you watched and enjoyed Senna and are a fan of motor racing or car history, you should definitely try to see it!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5031332/

 

It really does make me happy to see the orange back, along with the racing Kiwi bird on the new McLarens (even if they're not exactly reliable yet) in honour of the man and the team's New Zealand roots. Back in the 90s and 2000s when I was a kid watching F1 with my grandfather I remember viewing the West-McLaren-Mercedes cars as the bad guys, and Michael and his Ferrari as the good guys, 15-20 years later and with better understanding of the history I'm a devoted McLaren fan mainly because of everything that happened prior to Ron Dennis taking over.

 

Its weird how it has that effect on you as a little kid, I'd be at the news agent or supermarket with my parents and get really excited whenever I saw Marlboro cigarettes behind the counter or an ad for them and say "LOOK THATS MICHAEL's BRAND". I've still never smoked a cigarette in my life but its a good thing they banned the advertising from F1, it sure worked on me when I was little.

Also the reason I like the old Kiwi logo so much more than the current McLaren logo... its still basically a modified cigarette advertisement.