Brawn GP

Brawn GP
Surname	Brawn GP F1 team
Companies	Brawn GP Limited
Company headquarters	Brackley ( GB )
Team boss	Ross Brawn
statistics
First Grand Prix	Australia 2009
Last Grand Prix	Abu Dhabi 2009
Race driven	17th
Constructors' championship	1 ( 2009 )
Drivers World Championship	1 ( 2009 )
Race wins	8th
Pole positions	5
Fastest laps	4th
Points	172

The Brawn GP F1 Team is a former British Formula 1 racing team. He emerged from the Honda Racing F1 Team on March 3, 2009 and took part in the Formula 1 World Championship in 2009 . The team surprisingly won the drivers 'and constructors' championships straight away. After the successful debut season, Brawn GP was again majority taken over by Daimler AG and entered 2010 under the name " Mercedes GP " .

history

After the Honda Racing F1 Team resigned on December 5, 2008, Brawn GP took over the racing team on March 3, 2009 through a management buy-out from former Honda team boss Ross Brawn . Despite a grant of 130 million euros from Honda, the team had to be reduced to 450 employees. Ex-Honda drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello were confirmed as drivers for the 2009 season . The team also hired a former Honda employee, Anthony Davidson, as a replacement driver . Ex-Honda replacement pilot Alexander Wurz also remained loyal to the team and worked as a technical advisor for the new team.

Brawn was initially without sponsors because its predecessor Honda had almost all sponsorship contracts expired because of its Earthdream campaign. Before the first race in 2009, however, the team presented Richard Branson's Virgin Group as a sponsor.

Rubens Barrichello in a Brawn BGP 001 during pre-season test drives

In 2009, Brawn GP used the BGP 001 chassis together with the Mercedes FO108W 2.4 V8 engine.

At the start of the season at the Australian Grand Prix , the team had an unexpected success that was celebrated as a sensation in the trade press despite some best times in the winter test drives before the season: Button qualified for pole position when the team was first out and Barrichello completed the front row . In the race, Brawn celebrated a double victory in the same order. For the first time since Wolf in 1977 , a new team achieved a triumph at the Grand Prix of Argentina on their first appearance; a double victory of a new team in the first race there was the last time in 1954 : At the time, won the Mercedes-Benz pilots Juan Manuel Fangio and Karl Kling in the French Grand Prix .

However, from the point of view of some competing teams, a special double diffuser with a central channel, which Williams and Toyota also used in addition to Brawn, played a decisive role in the victory in Australia . The teams BMW-Sauber , Ferrari , Red Bull and Renault had already officially protested during the race weekend. After the on-site race stewards rejected this, the above-mentioned racing teams filed a lawsuit with the FIA appeals court , which was not upheld on April 14th.

Jenson Button also posted pole position and victory for Brawn at the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang . However, as the race was stopped prematurely due to heavy rain, only half points were awarded. At the following race in China , the series of successes broke off: In the pouring rain, the Red Bull Racing team clinched a one-two victory, with Button and Barrichello behind them in third and fourth. In Bahrain , too , Red Bull initially seemed to be the favorite and the Toyota works team also triumphed with best times in qualifying. In addition, Brawn had to struggle with cooling problems on his Mercedes units and feared premature failures due to overheating. In the race, however, Jenson Button was not deterred and secured his third win of the season.

Double victory for Button and Barrichello at the Spanish Grand Prix; Third place went to Mark Webber on Red Bull

The future world champion Jenson Button wins the 2009 Spanish GP

The European opener in Spain on the Circuit de Catalunya initially again identified the Red Bull team as favorites, as their car was certified as having the most efficient aerodynamics. Shortly before the end of the qualification, a Red Bull was actually at the top of the timesheet, before Jenson Button literally set the fastest time with a “chaos lap” at the last second. An undisputed double win out in the race went Brawn, which, however, the Red Bull drivers through the pitch Sebastian Vettel was encouraged that during the entire race distance behind the Ferrari of Felipe Massa was stuck and could not unfold so its possible race pace. It seemed until halfway through the race that Barrichello was going to win for Brawn for the first time before a change of strategy put Button back on the road to victory.

At the traditional Grand Prix in the streets of Monaco , the team turned the excellent mechanics of their car into superiority for the first time, so that Button and Barrichello were once again on the top podium. The Grand Prix of Turkey won again button. Barrichello, who got off to a bad start, fell far behind and caused a spin and an accident while catching up, ended up having to give up the race prematurely due to a gearbox failure.

In the remaining ten races of the season, Button was only able to finish on the podium at the Italian and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Barrichello, however, still won the European and Italian Grand Prix.

Rubens Barrichello (front) and Jenson Button (behind) at the Japanese Grand Prix

Thanks to Button's fifth place at the Brazilian Grand Prix and Barrichello's eighth place, Brawn GP was able to win the Constructors' Championship one race before the end of the season. In the same race, Jenson Button prematurely won the drivers' world championship.

After the end of the season it was announced that Brawn GP would sell 75.1 percent of its shares in Mercedes-Benz . The German automobile manufacturer thus acquired the majority of the British team and took part in the Formula 1 World Championship in 2010 under its own name ( “ Mercedes Grand Prix ” ). The name "Brawn GP" disappeared from Formula 1 after only one year.

Numbers and dates

Statistics in Formula 1

season	Team name	chassis	engine	tires	GP	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	World Cup rank
2009	Brawn GP Formula One Team	BGP 001	Mercedes-Benz 2.4 V8	B.	17th	8th	4th	3	5	4th	172	1.
total					17th	8th	4th	3	5	4th	172

All drivers of the Brawn GP Formula One Team

Surname	Years	Grand Prix	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	best WM-Pos.
United Kingdom Jenson Button	2009	17th	6th	1	2	4th	2	95	01st ( 2009 )
Brazil Rubens Barrichello	2009	17th	2	3	1	1	2	77	03rd ( 2009 )

Results in Formula 1

season	chassis	driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	Points	rank
2009	BGP 001																				172	1.
		United Kingdom J. Button	22nd	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	6th	5	7th	7th	DNF	2	5	8th	5	3
		Brazil R. Barrichello	23	2	5	4th	5	2	2	DNF	3	6th	10	1	7th	1	6th	7th	8th	4th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
violet	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
red	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
White	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
Light Blue	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	^P / bold	Pole position
	_SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Overview of the last staff

Area of responsibility	Surname
Regular driver	United Kingdom Jenson Button
Regular driver	Brazil Rubens Barrichello
Substitute driver	United Kingdom Anthony Davidson
Team boss	United Kingdom Ross Brawn
executive Director	United Kingdom Nick Fry
Team manager	United Kingdom Ron Meadows
technical director	vacant
Chief engineer	United Kingdom Steve Clark
Chief designer	France Loïc Bigois
Chief aerodynamicist	United Kingdom John Owen
technical consultant	Austria Alexander Wurz
Race engineer button	United Kingdom Andrew Shovlin
Race engineer Barrichello	United Kingdom Jock Clear