Ross Brawn
Ross Brawn
Ross James Brawn OBEis a British former motorsport engineer and Formula One team principal. He worked for a number of Formula One teams, serving as the technical director of the championship-winning Benetton and Ferrari teams. He took a sabbatical from the sport in 2007 but returned to F1 for the 2008 season as Team Principal of Honda. He was the owner of the Brawn GP team, which acquired the Honda team in early 2009, and won the Formula One Constructors...
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Patrick Head and Nick Fry came to us with an alternative proposal which was much more in line with what we wanted.
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I'm quite happy with the choice and it's really up to him to prove next year whether he's a long-term Ferrari driver or not.
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How nice it is to do a launch with the new car running outside, a very pleasant background.
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It was obviously very frustrating to have come so close to winning a race but after the season we had last year, we can take a great deal of encouragement from today's performance.
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They have started very well. We saw today that Felipe is going to be capable of pushing Michael and I think that Michael welcomes that. It is always a challenge because fundamentally they want to beat each other but you have to make them work together. And that is the secret; to get them to work together and give them the opportunity to beat each other.
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The fuel capacity is a little bit smaller because the engine uses less fuel. There is more space in the back of the car because the engine is shorter. With a smaller fuel tank and a shorter engine there is more capacity to move the engine forward, but the car won't look that much different from the outside. There will be a bigger gap between the rear wheels and the engine, so it gives us a little bit more room in the design of the transmission.
The idea would be to give him a lot of fuel.
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The enemy of stability can be complacency
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He wants to drive a car which wins races and it's up to us to provide him with one.
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We'd like to have him with us, because we believe the Ferrari-Rossi pairing is very alluring.
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I don't think he wants the tag of America last year as his first victory. So for sure it's the first proper victory of an Aldo Costa-designed car. It's a good precedent for the future.