After much speculation, Honda has finally sold their F1 team to someone quite close to home – Ross Brawn. Brawn has been in F1 for quite some time now, having worked in various F1 teams including Benetton and Ferrari.
After a 1 year break in 2007 he returned as the Team Principal of the Honda F1 team for the 2008 race year, and now owns the team, which has been renamed Brawn GP. From milling machine operator in 1976 to F1 team owner in 2009, that’s really quite a long way to have gone. The new Brawn GP team will use Mercedes-Benz engines and will be piloted by Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. The team’s new colours are white, fluorescent yellow and black, and its BGP 001 conducted its first test at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona recently.
The car was pretty fast, in fact piloted by Button it was one of the fastest cars in the pre-season group test, despite being what Ed Gorman called “a Honda chassis and suspension bolted together with a Mercedes-Benz engine it was not designed for.”
So I guess we’ll see Brawn GP here in Malaysia then!
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it’s look like the 2009 F1 cars design seems to have similarity with F1 cars around 90’s
quite ugly I must say
haha
YEA! would hate to see 18cars on the starting grid. Looking at the latest testing brawns team got in the top 4 in their first run with the new outfit! not bad.
I have to agree the cars look horrid now just look at this la http://formula1.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/bmw_sauber_f109_4.jpg
which one u guess looks like a 2009 car? lol hope this new changes will make it more challenging not just the top 3 teams fighting leaving the other 7 just “there but not there”….
read about this last week.. good for them, and good for the sport as a whole.
I'm sure Mercedez will not let Ross Brawn use the latest Merc engine … most likely he will get access to only the 'inferior' version engine like Sauber arrangement with Ferrari .
This year F1 cars look the ugliest , esp the rear wings
yeah, read it too.. thank goodness, at one point i was convinced that we'll be racing with one team less this season… IMO, it's good news for the sport..
it looks like something from a lego set!
gogogo!..
kill that ferrari too!.. hahahaha…
[quote comment="219256"]it's look like the 2009 F1 cars design seems to have similarity with F1 cars around 90's
quite ugly I must say
haha[/quote]
good thing is, all these things are "supposed" to help make the racing closer. hopefully it works out that way.. F1 as it used to be, always put me to sleep before the race is even halfway thru.
BanyakMasukWorkshop said,
March 10, 2009 @ 3:55 pm · F1 as it used to be, always put me to sleep before the race is even halfway thru.
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LoL! Same here. I reckon there're more out there like us. So hopefully, with new designs, this year's race will be more exciting and keep us awake till the very end.
Chiao!
heard proton is going to form an F1 team too….
hehehe…. just kidding =p
[quote comment="219222"]I'm sure Mercedez will not let Ross Brawn use the latest Merc engine … most likely he will get access to only the 'inferior' version engine like Sauber arrangement with Ferrari .
This year F1 cars look the ugliest , esp the rear wings[/quote]
this message come from the the official mercedes team.thank you.
[quote comment="219256"]it's look like the 2009 F1 cars design seems to have similarity with F1 cars around 90's
quite ugly I must say
haha[/quote]
F1 cars has never been beautiful. They are built with speed in mind, not cosmetics appeal.
[quote comment="219356"][quote comment="219222"]I'm sure Mercedez will not let Ross Brawn use the latest Merc engine … most likely he will get access to only the 'inferior' version engine like Sauber arrangement with Ferrari .
This year F1 cars look the ugliest , esp the rear wings[/quote]
this message come from the the official mercedes team.thank you.[/quote]
Obviously. Customer teams always will not get the latest kit…although if we look at Super Aguri's performance in 2007 they managed to shame the factory team even without the latest kit….
hope this will not be minardi of new F1….
[quote comment="219371"]hope this will not be minardi of new F1….[/quote]
unlike minardi, this is actually the honda team.. same car, same people.. but its a newly designed car, thats been developed from last year to meet 2009 rules..
also, its run by ross brawn, one of the key men behind the resurgence of Ferrari in F1, and also schumie's success.
lets form our own F1 team…
Paul Tan Readers F1 Team..
RTR F1…
cool!
the car theo will design it,
the managing director,
Paul,
hahaha…cool eh?
money on mclaren…hu wit me? with lewis on the wheel victory on every single race is a huge possibility
This car perform pretty well during today and yesterday test at Circuit de Catalunya. Much faster than McLaren.
Final Times:
1. Kimi Raikkonen 1.20:314 55 laps
2. Kazuki Nakajima 1.20:907 66 laps
3. Rubens Barrichello 1.20:966 109 laps
4. Jarno Trulli 1.21:182 118 laps
5. Mark Webber 1.21:347 66 laps
6. Nick Heidfeld 1.21:615 124 laps
7. Adrian Sutil 1.21:834 79 laps
8. Fernando Alonso 1.21:937 111 laps
9. Heikki Kovalainen 1.21:991 84 laps
10. Sebastien Bourdais 1.23:039 14 laps
11. Sebastian Buemi no time
[quote comment="219469"]This car perform pretty well during today and yesterday test at Circuit de Catalunya. Much faster than McLaren.
Final Times:
1. Kimi Raikkonen 1.20:314 55 laps
2. Kazuki Nakajima 1.20:907 66 laps
3. Rubens Barrichello 1.20:966 109 laps
4. Jarno Trulli 1.21:182 118 laps
5. Mark Webber 1.21:347 66 laps
6. Nick Heidfeld 1.21:615 124 laps
7. Adrian Sutil 1.21:834 79 laps
8. Fernando Alonso 1.21:937 111 laps
9. Heikki Kovalainen 1.21:991 84 laps
10. Sebastien Bourdais 1.23:039 14 laps
11. Sebastian Buemi no time[/quote]
Yeah but dude it's testing, they all carry out different test, fuel loads etc. You can't tell if one car is faster than another during testing.
[quote comment="219467"]money on mclaren…hu wit me? with lewis on the wheel victory on every single race is a huge possibility[/quote]
hahaha…
not so sure…
with this new regulations…
seems boring…
ugly…
slow…
f1 cars…
i just wish it could be just like b4…
the cars can go 350 without any fuss…
now…
320 is like the max…
[quote comment="219366"]
which one u guess looks like a 2009 car? lol hope this new changes will make it more challenging not just the top 3 teams fighting leaving the other 7 just "there but not there"….[/quote]
it's wrong to said the other teams just "there but not there"… don't forget, one of the top team win their driver championship with 'little help' from one of these so called "there but not there" driver… LOL
[quote comment="219467"]money on mclaren…hu wit me? with lewis on the wheel victory on every single race is a huge possibility[/quote]
it's not as simple as that bro… this 2009 new regulations is one of the most radical changes in decades.. but normally, top team with good funding always end up on top (just forget about Toyota – it's a special case LOL)… u need good car + talented driver to win race & championship… nothing less…
to be fair, i think there's a few fast & really talented driver out there with not so fast car.. Sebastian Vettel & Nico (to name a few)..
I think Ross Brawn did a magnificient job of modifying the engine compartment to suit the Mercedes 'customer engines' from the original Honda mountings. Who knows, with a little tweaking here and there it could be consistantly in the top 10 or top 5 on the grid. Maybe even a surprise podium finish, like Torro Rosso/Vettel did last year.
[quote comment="219570"][quote comment="219467"]
with this new regulations…
seems boring…
ugly…
slow…
f1 cars…
i just wish it could be just like b4…
the cars can go 350 without any fuss…
now…
320 is like the max…[/quote]
i rather reserve judgement until they actually run a race. no where i know know they are slow, or ugly.. and definitely no way i want it as b4, coz i ended falling asleep so many times.. i totally gave up watching f1 altogether.. i only watch A1, WRC and WTCC nowadays. at least there is some racing on the track going on.
but i do agree with osh_kosh.. the one with more money will still have the advantage.. if you cant invest in technology, you can hire the best staff, maybe the best personal trainers, psychologist, medical experts.. blah blah for the driver.. there will always be an edge somewhere that money can exploit.
[quote comment="219631"][quote comment="219570"][quote comment="219467"]
with this new regulations…
seems boring…
ugly…
slow…
f1 cars…
i just wish it could be just like b4…
the cars can go 350 without any fuss…
now…
320 is like the max…[/quote]
i rather reserve judgement until they actually run a race. no where i know know they are slow, or ugly..
and definitely no way i want it as b4, coz i ended falling asleep so many times.. i totally gave up watching f1 altogether.. i only watch A1, WRC and WTCC nowadays. at least there is some racing on the track going on.
but i do agree with osh_kosh.. the one with more money will still have the advantage.. if you cant invest in technology, you can hire the best staff, maybe the best personal trainers, psychologist, medical experts.. blah blah for the driver.. there will always be an edge somewhere that money can exploit.[/quote]
yea BMW..same case here…..for some time now..f1 has been a bit boring.WRC/BTCC feels a lot more interesting.
??? ….the top was refering to BMW…my mistake haha!!
[quote comment="219484"][quote comment="219469"]This car perform pretty well during today and yesterday test at Circuit de Catalunya. Much faster than McLaren.
Final Times:
1. Kimi Raikkonen 1.20:314 55 laps
2. Kazuki Nakajima 1.20:907 66 laps
3. Rubens Barrichello 1.20:966 109 laps
4. Jarno Trulli 1.21:182 118 laps
5. Mark Webber 1.21:347 66 laps
6. Nick Heidfeld 1.21:615 124 laps
7. Adrian Sutil 1.21:834 79 laps
8. Fernando Alonso 1.21:937 111 laps
9. Heikki Kovalainen 1.21:991 84 laps
10. Sebastien Bourdais 1.23:039 14 laps
11. Sebastian Buemi no time[/quote]
Yeah but dude it's testing, they all carry out different test, fuel loads etc. You can't tell if one car is faster than another during testing.[/quote]
Yeah, but Ferrari and others were doing complete race weekend simulations, that must include Q2 simulations so they've gone as fast as they could on lowest possible fuel. And they were slower than BrawnGP