 In 2014 David Coulthard gave an interview to Charles Bradley in Autosport where he claimed that indeed an agreement between McLaren and Williams was in place . " Ron [ Dennis ] had made that deal with Frank [ Williams ] , which none of us knew anything about , that if we helped Williams in their quest to beat Ferrari they wouldn 't get in the way of helping McLaren . Ron would probably still deny it today . That 's what happened " . 
