SPECIAL EPISODE: Ross Brawn on Brawn GP’s fairy-tale 2009 title success
F1 Beyond The Grid10 Juli 2019

SPECIAL EPISODE: Ross Brawn on Brawn GP’s fairy-tale 2009 title success

The history of F1 is littered with great stories and improbable comebacks, and Brawn GP’s title-winning season in 2009 is right up there with the best of them. It was late 2008 when Honda surprisingly pulled the plug on its F1 project, leaving a team hundreds strong with a bleak future. That the team not only survived but emerged with a grid-blitzing machine is the stuff of legend, and on the tenth anniversary of that success Tom Clarkson sat down with the man at the centre of the story – current F1 motorsports chief Ross Brawn – for the inside story on a true sporting fairy-tale…

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