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Brown's tribute to ‘sponsorship king' Hogan
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has paid tribute to former Marlboro sponsorship chief John Hogan who has sadly passed away. Sponsors come and go in the world of Formula 1, but few made the kind of impact which Hogan did. Back in the early 1980s it was Hogan who brought Ron Dennis to the struggling McLaren outfit, and with Hogan's Marlboro funding the team created Formula 1's first all-carbon fibre chassis. Hogan's involvement in successful pursuits to bring Niki Lauda out of retirement and later put Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in the same McLaren team meant that between 1984 and 1989, the outfit won four Constructors' Championships and five Drivers' Championships in six years. Hogan would...
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