The controversial F1 legend that nearly missed making history: Brawn GP

[@jg1391]

Ross Brawn is such a legend. Brilliant understanding of both technical and business part of F1.

[@BB-fp9ce]

jg1391 😱

[@gowen_places_5471]

I met him and the car at Goodwood Friday!!! Got a selfie and an autograph on my cap!!!

[@ZioCortii]

ahah... ahahahah.... AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAH Stop whit drugs dude

[@1assassyn]

@@ZioCortii he's right, Mr. Patrick Coronavirus

[@ZioCortii]

@@1assassyn You are joking With a pandemic virus which causes thousands of deaths only because i said my opinion? GG... Report ti KZbin MR astro 39

[@captainzoll3303]

"...a person of supreme arrogance" this is coming from the team that was once run by enzo ferrari...

[@Tacos888]

They hated you after you left haha

[@XBullitt16X]

Ironic isn't it ? Hahaha

[@charlesm.9858]

He's also a cheater!! He's still on the Mercedes payroll

[@dcarbs2979]

They were only sore cos he left and made his own team instead. And they couldn't compete without him.

[@elcactusdelamuerte506]

@@charlesm.9858 I hate mercs dominance it's made f1 boring, but there's no reason to blame brawn because no other teams are able to produce competitive cars. He's been one of the main people pushing for change in the hopes to improve racing, but many of his ideas have been shot down by teams usually the top three (including merc). If anything he's trying to plot their downfall more than aiding them

[@granain088]

A tribute to Ross Brawn's influence on F1 was long overdue.

[@charlesm.9858]

Yeah right

[@charlesm.9858]

Here's a cheater bro..

[@GTChucker86]

Chaz Mac Did Ross Brawn piss on your cereal this morning?

[@granain088]

@@charlesm.9858 Sir, I beg to disagree. His work has indeed proven crucial for Ferrari's dominance in the earliest years of the last decade as well as his role in developing Brawn GP's car. We all know here how both teams fared in their respective seasons. What I mean is this: have we ever wondered how different would be F1 without him? It would be vastly different I bet. On the other hand, we would accuse Adrian Newey of being a cheater as well, wouldn't we? Or some other illustrious people in motorsport history. Let's be rational, shall we?

[@cooperkoliba]

I was hyped and went to the website for the model cars and my jaw dropped when I saw those prices. I cannot believe that some of them cost like 8,000$

[@michaelcollins966]

CoopGaming agreed However, they do seem to be the most accurate car models I’ve seen. Depends how much you’re willing to pay for accuracy.

[@gijs.22]

CoopGaming thats cheap for a 1:8 car

[@_xndrzt]

11.000euro for a 70s McLaren 1:18 replica. the site is clearly a scam.

[@divyeshpatel1539]

What's the name of the website?

[@jameslee9314]

@@_xndrzt They are the top model car maker in the world. They make exact replica, even using carbon fiber in some of their models. Its fucking expensive but each model takes hundreds of hours to make.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

BAR becomes Honda, HOnda invests £millions, pulls out of F1 , Brawn buys it for peanuts a year after they put everything into the development. Brawn capitalised on it. Brilliant car but they could hardly keep the development going through the season and the rest caught up over the season. Brawn then sells to Merc for £35m. What an ROI. One of my all time favourite seasons.

[@inazuma234]

Actually he spend lot of money for operational cost until virgin sponsorhip money came in. Yes he bought it for a penny but cost is going.

[@dyingearth]

@@inazuma234 He did clean up rather nicely when Mercedes bought them out.

[@Dave5843-d9m]

All F1 teams are big but Honda employed something like 800 people. It was just too cumbersome. Ross Brawn scaled it right down and look what happened.

[@robertbalu8001]

didn't they have some deal about the further deal? like Honda would get ~20-30% of the sale price

[@compilationstuffs9412]

Jenson Button: used 3 chassis for whole season Pierre Gasly: destroyed 3 chassis before half season

[@nandadwirendragraha935]

jenson used only 1 chasiss, the rest is for barrichelo and spares

[@phoenix0282]

its better than that button used only ONE chassis

[@alexwright6038]

Grosjean, 3 chassis in a weekend

[@GhostOfLorelei]

It was even more impressive, with 1. I can't even imagine... They hardly had money for development, let a lone a new chassis. Could you imagine if Jenson had put a tire wrong _just once_ ? It wouldn't just be the race over, it may well have been the season over!

[@phoenix0282]

Jay Carr his world championship is well deserved. He is a quick driver with careful style

[@mikespearwood3914]

Ferrari always seem to complain when things aren't totally going their way!

[@shreerajsalunke353]

The last time they were successful, they didn't have Italians managing the team. Guess that played a part

[@gentnextdoor]

Of course they complain do what do you expect them to do, celebrate?

[@georgejakob1451]

Well thats thair hole story really

[@Enra000]

@@gentnextdoor do a better job instead of moaning? lol

[@Khyte]

Im a die hard Ferrari fan, But I do agree with you

[@-ragingpotato-937]

Mercedes did exactly what honda/Brawn GP did, focus on the upcoming rule changes. And dominance was the result.

[@Fujiwara.Takumi1]

Er no. Mercedes was the only one who knew about the V6 Turbo regulation coming years prior unlike the rest of the field.

[@FutureF123]

All of the current Mercedes dominance is due to Ross Brawn. The foundation that he built starting in 2008 at Brackley was a major long term investment as he knew the V6 hybrids were coming. Mercedes has nothing until the hybrid era and it’s all thanks to Brawn

[@filmandfirearms]

Mercedes was always smart and thinking ahead. When you're already good to go for a race as soon as you get there, it makes the stuff you can't plan for a lot easier to deal with. Mercedes, unlike many teams these days, knows the true power of information. They know that every tiny little bit of data you can gather is vital, whether it be on your car or an opponent

[@samcarpenter_]

@@Fujiwara.Takumi1 Mercedes started focusing on their hybrid project in early 2012, but everyone says they knew since 2010 which isn't true. Everyone knew the hybrids were a possibility in 2010/11, but Merc were the earliest to commit to it in 2012. They didn't have forward knowledge.

[@Jojo_Bee]

@@samcarpenter_ Actually, the V6 Hybrid engines were introduced in 2014... but there has been news that Mercedes has been developing the said engine as early as 2007. www.grandprix247.com/2017/02/01/montezemolo-mercedes-worked-on-their-f1-engine-since-2007/?fbclid=IwAR0YBrHFZG5-LoTNFWCGlaAYHLioNTusMKiLCcRWOM1vtJrQvjsxOpMUzGs

[@cristianengel8353]

This shows what a great driver Jenson was... he used only one chassis all over the season, so he never had an accident

[@Plaģiātists]

Well, they were driving ahead of everyone for half of the season. :)

[@markusi5995]

Makes me wonder if he'd have done in a better car toward the end of his career; his style is really good with saving tires...he wasn't never the absolute fastest, but damn is he smooth on the wheel while still being very quick'n'consistent. He could probably drive with a sleeping baby in the car at 200mph

[@rockzs74r]

@@markusi5995 he have more point than Hamilton in their time together that's I think enough to answer the questions. He Is the 2nd coming of Alain Prost. And as of now there is no one like them yet. The smooth and precise driver.

[@markusi5995]

@@rockzs74r I didn't mean to imply he was worse than Hamilton...I was just getting at even though, he didn't have as many poles....his smoothness and consistency brought him a lot of points. The more broad point I'm making tho, is I feel certain drivers are mismatched with the era of car they're in; i.e. Alonso did really well when you could be pushing the whole time and he didn't have to worry about tires/fuel as much.

[@rockzs74r]

@@markusi5995 I didn't mean to interpret my comment the way you think I am. I just mean Jenson is a really good driver. I think driver like Jenson will be good on any era (As long as there is enough rain). A lot of driver lost some of their mojo with different regs and car voncept. Kimi was never been the same without Michelin groove tyres same with Mark Webber and Bridgestone. Vettel tendency to spin lately is because his driving style was so used to high down force car that he didn't got anymore. Even if we go back further Keke Rosberg always missed the ground effect cars that he used to drive. Even Schumacher 2005 disastrous campaign was the result of FIA deliberately nerf Bridgestone that year to create competition. But nowadays Chase Carrey seems like to say yes to whatever Hamilton wants. Hoping he will stay forever

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

Brawn joined Brabham, Tyrell, Lotus, Williams and Jordan. Being a smaller outfit making game changing innovations to the sport.

[@mikespearwood3914]

Can you elaborate? I didn't know Jordan did anything special, and I don't know much about Tyrell or Lotus.

[@ruairilane3562]

Mike Spearwood Jordan manage to build relatively competitive cars with pretty much no money at all

[@lukmanfirdaus8497]

@@mikespearwood3914 Tyrrell: creating the P34, changing front nose design Lotus: first stressed member car, first to put wing on the car, first team to use active suspension

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@lukmanfirdaus8497 What about Brabham?

[@lukmanfirdaus8497]

@@mikespearwood3914 first team to testing aerodynamic of car in a wind tunnel

[@Zack_Spades]

Love how Ferrari accused Ross Brawn -part of the Ferrari superteam of the early 2000s- of extreme arrogance while failing to see the damn irony of the accusation.

[@shadopulse5185]

Nah mate, calling other people arrogant seems like a very Ferrari thing to do

[@dcarbs2979]

Ferrari have always taken the piss with the rules and generally the governing body let them because the sport traditionally needed them. Probably more than Ferrari needed the sport. But Enzo being a racer wouldn't have just 'not raced'. He'd probably start his own championship if F1 kicked them out.

[@robw7676]

Ferrari have spent 80% of the history of F1 being supremely annoyed at losing to something built in a shed in England.

[@dcarbs2979]

@@robw7676 And the other 20% winning it! 80s and 90s were really crap years!

[@Blazedreptile]

john m why bring the eu into this? Shut the fuck we can’t be arsed with this bollocks anymore

[@Parkie355]

I have faith in Brawn’s vision for 2021 onwards

[@poprox101]

If history is anything to go by, because Ross Brawn won't be with any team, Adrian Newey and Red Bull will blow everyone else away. F1 winning designs have been going back and forth between Newey and Brawn since the early 1990s when Newey was with Williams and then McLaren. Newey has a knack for finding loopholes better than Colin Chapman and Ken Tyrrell did. Calling it now: Unless Newey swaps teams, Verstappen = World Champion 2021. You heard it here first.

[@SLArmstrong]

@@poprox101 Well thought out - thanks!

[@nemphis95]

@@poprox101 MB will have something to say to that.

[@poprox101]

@@nemphis95 Milton Bradley? /sarcasm

[@ASJC27]

@@poprox101 The Ferrari cars dominating the 2000's and Benneton's 1994-1995 championship winning cars were designed by Rory Byrne. Not to take anything away from Ross Brawn, but he was the technical director, not the chief designer.

[@GEMINICT]

I read somewhere that the Brawn Double Diffuser was actually conceived by Super Aguri for their SA09 car. The team went under and the designers from the team joined Honda and Toyota who implemented it.

[@shemshap]

im somewhat new to F1, but watching this and seeing whats been going on this season, it seems like ferrari have a knack for complaining about teams that are outperforming. talk about arrogance....

[@mosh.4245]

Aerodynamics is for people who can't build engines - Enzo Ferrari

[@fenhen]

Not really fair in this case. The video makes it seem only Ferrari objected, but most teams complained about it.

[@lebophetla1239]

Welcome to F1 mate... hope you enjoy the sport. You'll also soon realize over the years that it's usually the 2nd best team who complains the most simply because their rivals are winning. It was a similar story back in the day as well.

[@jannadrielcervo7753]

F1 isn't just about being the best team in terms of technological engineering. Its also about politics that spice things up, it is what makes it really interesting to watch.

[@jamesrouse3974]

Mosha Oronir lol italian junk

[@SufferingAddict88]

9:30 you could safely have said "six times", even though it's not official yet we all know Merc is running away with it this year yet again

[@firenzexstr2667]

It's official now 😁

[@weilman1133]

Yup Thanks for Honda...

[@mohammadmoosa907]

Boy do I have news for you

[@Rough_justice]

I remember watching the 2009 Australian Grand Prix at a bar and knew that this car was going to be bad ass throughout the season.

[@zildog]

I've seen a lot of F1 - 32 years in fact. This video was cooler than I was expecting.

[@platetec4636]

Jenson only just found out his Brawn car doesn’t have a gearbox.

[@tobylusher]

What you mean

[@wpp2595]

@@tobylusher jenson button owns a brawn gp f1 car but only just found out it doesnt have a full gearbox

[@ShadeMoon42]

@@wpp2595 no he doesn't, he hadn't seen the car for years until the build up to this years British GP.

[@ShadeMoon42]

@@wpp2595 actually my bad, three people own it and share it, Jensen being one of them.

[@crxdelsolsir]

@@ShadeMoon42 Button has seen his car just not the one Brawn has which is a working version. If you don't believe Jenson was given a NON working version just watch the F1 2019 Silverstone where he actually confirmed the car he was given was incomplete and missing a gear box.

[@dcarbs2979]

Ferrari basically was Brawn during the Schumacher success years. A genius strategist and technician just proved he didn't need the rest of Ferrari. But Ferrari needed him!

[@gerarduspoppel2831]

Do not forget Jean Todd

[@dcarbs2979]

@@gerarduspoppel2831 Indeed, a critial part of Ferrari, but he didn't build an independent constructor.

[@uncivilsum]

6:02 i remember reading a story of how Luci di Montezemolo wrestled with Jean Todt over control over Ferrari, in the end this caused some of those team members to leave Ferrari (including Brawn).

[@sergiosantos9418]

I read the same thing. It was even that which led to Schumacher's removal from the team's pilot and the 2006 withdrawal.

[@TheIndianalain]

Thank you for confirming what I said for years, on countless F1 blogs. The BGP001 was a beautifully designed car, far more than just a double diffuser. It was also magistrally driven by Jenson Button, optimally capitalizing on the car's superiority in the first part of the season (when Vettel, in a car that was not very far behind, commited errors upon errors (crash in Australia, Malaysia and Monaco, poor drive in Bahrein, Spain and Turkey) ) and managing to collect points on EVERY race of the season bar Belgium where he was crashed into by Grosjean. The perfect match!

[@minardi9992]

J.Betton did a 2019 LH44-like season, winning where he must won and take as much point as possible.

[@Obetv01]

Ross Brawn is a legend. The sheer calculative brain power of his trade. I'm surprised we haven't seen anything like a heir apparent. Then again, F1 evolved into something else.

[@ElectoneGuy]

It's a shame that Honda withdrew in 2008. This would have easily won their first constructors championship even with the Honda engine (which was very good).

[@frankhardy123]

You forgot to mention the titles Brawn won when he, Rory Byrne and Michael Schumacher were at Benetton.

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

I'd like to see the Ferrari F399 be mentioned, as well as the season which had Schumacher break his leg at Silverstone and Irvine and Häkkinen battle it out for the title that year.

[@benjiman46]

What a great video! Loved every moment! Well presented, incredible graphics and video clips, a very big well done to the presenter, and Autosport 😊

[@MarvinNeumannOfficial]

Awesome awesome video! The graphics and the style are just spot on! REALLY GREAT!

[@mitcholla]

excellent video! thank you got posting this. it really lays it out in clean fashion. edit: okay I’ve been critical of autosport in previous months, but this video made up for all of it. seriously. if you’re going to do KZbin videos, this is how you do it.

[@debozebever]

Spotify link to that jenson feat rubens album please...?

[@TleafarafaelT]

lol

[@Lucas141202]

The fastest lap of 2009 Pre Season is from Rubens Barrichello with 1:18.926, only beated by Kimi Räikkönen in 2017 Pre Season with 1:18.634. I love this car, my favorite!

[@mufarrijlukman21]

Ross Brawn is one of the most influential guys in F1, up there with Adrian Newey

[@nicole-annmarierimes6272]

This should be the way of all your videos way more interesting guys then 3 men sat on a sofa 👍

[@thevelvetone97]

Not true

[@abregante]

Totally agree with you...please AUTOSPORT take the Nicole way

[@matthiascerebri3315]

But if only one woman was sitting there, you would be cheering- you Feminist! 😉😁😂

[@Blazedreptile]

Matthias Cerebri cringe

[@freshlysquosen]

I feel sorry for Ed's pants.

[@wabisabi6802]

Honda would've won the championship if they didn't pull out. They've already poured money on the following year's car. Bad decision, really.

[@TheUKNutter]

wabi sabi “pull out” ...

[@Shyguy306]

10 years on, yea it kinda does seem bad. However I feel it's important to note that first of all, the financial crisis (which people did see coming btw Autosport) was causing a world of issues, and any big expense like that made sense to cull at the time. Secondly, Brawn and others have admitted that with the Honda engine, the car wouldn't have won anything. It was a very weak engine back then, in more ways than one.

[@MonsterSound.Bradley]

We will never know how Honda would have done, but as they were firm on keeping their engine small and it wasn't that reliable or proven to be as powerful, their future success was hardly a sure thing at all.

[@K7L3-93]

@@Shyguy306 It was mainly down to Japanese culture, they couldn't justify spending all that money on F1 when their home country was suffering so badly, it's not the Japanese way.

[@tonyb9735]

@@MonsterSound.Bradley I agree with your point but on the other hand Honda would have been able to afford to continue to develop the car throughout the season where Brawn could not.

[@manoahvanderwolf3259]

I will forever hold the BrawnGP BGP001 as my favourite F1 car in alltime history as does the entire team and drivers, with a tiny little note though. I will always remain having 1 question: What if Bruno Senna DID get Barrichello's seat, as originally planned, but halted by Ross due to wanting an experienced driver. Would Bruno have won a race or 2 like Rubens, and would that have meant a total different approach and look into his failed F1 career? Imagine if Bruno had won his first F1 gp with the uber-successfull Brawn car, a car meant to be red-white and a honda engine. Imagine thus Honda not having pulled out. History would look so different! But perhaps even worse: Alonso could have signed with BrawnGP, and he didn't. Another example of what could have been!

[@TiamatSorakaSolotop]

"No one coulda predicted the 2008 crisis" except countless heterodox economists ya know

[@mike04574]

not any average joe

[@MephLeo]

@@mike04574 Average Joes aren't expected to predict anything. But the fact that the economists that did rarely were given time and coverage to explain their work explains why the average Joe was caught of guard. Big people didn't want to listen, they didn't want to believe. And afterwards they all chant in unison "no one could've predicted!"

[@TheUKNutter]

1:40 Those puns are killing me, man

[@thisistotallyfine]

Here after finishing the Brawn GP F1 documentary. What a legendary story.

[@993mike]

As it turned out, Brawn made one the shrewdest deals ever in F1. Basically took over the team for free, put his own money and reputation on the line, and walked away with a Mercedes buyout a couple years later for a pile of cash. Well done Ross!

[@fenhen]

He actually wanted to stay at Mercedes into the hybrid era, but the Mercedes bosses didn’t agree with him being in charge.

[@Khodorchan]

Excellent! I enjoyed every minute and subscribed right ahead. Thank you!

[@gowen_places_5471]

I'm so glad I got my picture taken with Ross Brawn! He even signed my cap!

[@davidporeilly1]

Nice effort, I have a Brawn cap. One significant correction; a diffuser does not "accelerate the airflow" under the car. It decelerates it. By drawing the air into an expanding space it both decelerates it and creates an area of low pressure. This relative vacuum is what sucks the car onto the road. Engineers love it because unlike more wing it adds rear down force with relatively little drag. Don't feel bad Jenson Button still doesn't grasp it either.

[@theant9821]

the down force is created by as you say creating a vacuum but by creating a vacuum under the car too, the diffuser creates a vacuum which then sucks air from under the car backwards at a higher speed, extending the area of low pressure forwards under the car. Hence why when rules allow race cars have exhaust feeding into the diffuser, which sounds counter intuitive as its putting high pressure air into the area of low pressure, but the exhaust gasses are travelling at high speed so accelerate the air in the diffuser which creates a larger vacuum ahead of the exhaust thus sucking more air from under the car creating more down force. You want to create a vacuum but also want to keep the air speed as fast as possible to extend the vacuum forwards of the diffuser to redude air pressure under as much of the car as possible. If you look at a model f1 car youll see the diffuser has vertical elements in it which would appear to increase the pressure by squeezing the air, you might assume, but this is to help make the most of the vacuum created by the diffuser by directing the vacuum under as much of the cars floor as possible. think of a vacuum cleaner, you have one nozzle in the centre, or have several smaller nozzles sucking air from under as much of the car as possible. this is essentially attempting to use ground effect while restrained by a flat floor, hence why flat floor cars also have to run rake.

[@arielnavroski]

Just to complement... Barrichello struggled to manage the brakes and he started to win races after the team chances the brakes manufacturer, but it was too late, Red Bull has increased their performance. I’m not saying that Button does not deserved the championship trophy’s. Very good documentary. Well done!

[@evofreak1304]

I remember when Martin Brundle interviewed Jenson on the grid in Australia melbourne 2009 , you could just feel , it was a very very special moment, the start of a fairy tale for Brawn GP .

[@FelixIsMyName]

The Williams FW14B or the Williams FW15 would be great for one of these episodes.

[@poprox101]

The car that broke Formula 1. Good choice.

[@PavlosLepaul]

This Ace Attorney animation was great.

[@azwris]

Mate? Barrichello featured in a battle fight! But the team strategy was catastrophic both in Spain and Germany so by the time he got to Brasil he didn't have enough chances. Also he made a mistake in Singapore quali too..He could have won the championship if he was more familiar with the car from the beginning of the season and maybe if he was British too.. ;)

[@GbrGz]

Barrichelo is so underrated. Hes got a 20 year absolutely consistent top tier career. Sad he could never win a championship. In Brazil they take him for granted, very sad.

[@PhysicxAlmighty]

Wow, incredible production value. I really like that part with the inspired Ace Attorney nintendo game, well done !

[@edwardbyard6540]

Say thanks to the Super Aguri team who did a considerable amount of the aero work on what became the BGP001. Not a lot of people know that Pete McCool and his team in Leafield developed the double diffuser idea, before Nick Fry got Super Aguri binned. The guys at Honda saw the potential of the idea and literally took the computers and files from Super Aguri.

[@MisterMister5893]

Interesting. I always wondered why Honda never stuck to it for the long haul. They could have been champions.

[@fernandocavalli7395]

Excellent approach and nice use of graphics. You sir just earned a new subscriber. Cheers!

[@martinbendixen3166]

Wonderful video and fantastic technical insight! Thank You!

[@robertwhitlow8957]

Excellent detailed vid. My first season watching F1 was '09. Button guy. '08-'09 only time #22 car won championship!

[@PavlosLepaul]

Maybe for next time classic like Lotus 79

[@alanluscombe8a553]

I’m so happy it was button that got to drive this car. The brawn story was incredible

[@alexgraham8223]

3:09 your graphic for the UK is wrong. You've included the Republic of Ireland.

[@ericheimann9436]

as if anyone would care about your meaningless Island anyway haha.

[@dark1810]

@@ericheimann9436 we have a edgelord isle 6 edgelord isle 6

[@luca_bagnoli]

@@ericheimann9436 all nations should have the same importance

[@erebousde]

@@ericheimann9436 Oof

[@trentmcgee117]

Excellent, excellent video. Well done and thank you. 😃

[@willfowler1027]

Bro the production value in these videos is absurd. This looks amazing

[@GaelicStallion]

That is some quality content. Keep it up Autosport

[@sunkid86]

My favorite year, team and driver ever in F1. I have been a huge fan of Jensen and the fact that a finically struggling team with Richard Branson as a jump in sponsor could win this year with such a huge lead was a dream to watch. I loved it. And I was so happy for Jensen to have this in his career. Epic year. (oh and his first win was in Hungary where i am from, with the then strongest F1 Honda).

[@DavidOwensuk]

The Brilliant Brawn! Awesome season, story and double would championship...

[@jeltje25]

Braun?

[@_davidfoster_]

Quite an insight and thank you very much for compiling & uploading this video! No mention made of the “wheel discs”?? Did they make any difference?

[@officialWWM]

Very informative and well produced. Cheers :)

[@danilocalic797]

I finally understood the double diffuser. Thanks!

[@McRocket]

Great job of story telling...thank you.

[@CYMotorsport]

The fact that you have someone to do your after effects like this yet still choose to have three people sit and do taking head interviews half the time is beyond bizarre. Toss some of that creative execution my way I’ll show you how to use it

[@TeslasSecret]

Great great video, thanks!

[@dsmcraig]

Great video, i remember that year of f1. It was really cool seeing brawn gp beating up the big teams like ferrari and red bull. Ross Brawn is a formula 1 legend.

[@mrdraw2087]

Honda probably wouldn't have been as successful as BrawnGP because their engine wasn't good enough. However, I didn't know Ferrari also offered them engines. Had they chosen Ferrari engines, I doubt they would have been taken over by Mercedes. :) Also, I believe Ross Brawn mentioned the loophole that made possible the double diffuser back in 2008, but no-one really paid attention, so he went on to develop it.

[@fenhen]

Honda would have been at least as successful. They had already negotiated an increase of power to their engine. Plus, they would have properly tested and developed the car.

[@Hernandeces]

Could you imagine them winning against Ferrari with their own engine? I bet they wouldnt have sold it to them the following year LMAO

[@ruedafest]

I finally could understand how dd works. thanks

[@LuisReyes-ru2bp]

Great video. Great content.

[@grandassassin24]

You really can't say that "Honda's decision to sell the team was one of the worst", because while maybe the 2009 car was decent, all the stuff that happened subsequently with the Mercedes buyout likely wouldn't have happened in the same way as it did. It was a necessity at the time, and the events that unfolded afterwards are scarcely believable. Its just the rub of the green sometimes.

[@mickman144]

Fantastic video, but the ads every 2 minutes really detract

[@TheStan80]

Brawn GP . I loved that season. The car at stand still was in the regulations. Car under load was apparently out of the regulation range. Bend the rules but dont break them.

[@mrchainanimal3637]

I've always been fascinated by the success of Ross with Brawn GP. This car must have been light years ahead of competition, when somebody like Button could win a race with it, let alone the championship. Great vid!

[@wheelcha1rman2]

Button was always a great driver in underwhelming cars. He's reigning champion of GT2 in Japan.

[@aesir1ases64]

button beat hamilton

[@MrNursi]

Great story, well presented!

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

When one team see's breakthrough and makes greater innovative advances that pay off over everyone else. Suddenly the previous leading teams wanna try and pull them back with politics instead of improving themselves... They say that F1 was a sport of innovation.

[@mikespearwood3914]

It seems to be Ferrari who moan the most.

[@Hernandeces]

And by Monaco, while the complain was being adressed in courts, SURPRISE! They had implemented a copy of the double deffuser on their car. Ironic right?

[@TestarossaF110]

Great video!

[@steffighter144]

Nice video, I always wanted to know, why Brawn GP disappeared so quickly.

[@anthonywhite7873]

Great video thanks

[@81clive]

The greatest Engineer in F1, along with the technical masterpiece of a car. Not forgetting the brilliant Gordon Murray. These great Men are and will be the GOATs of our time.

[@SuperNinety-Three]

What you mean when you said that Rubens didnt fight for the championship? Did you guys actually watch the 09 season? Because Rubens still had a change to win the WDC until the race in Brazil. If you guys dont know I can explain. Some years latter rubens told in a tv show here in brazil that he was struglling with the brakes all first half of 2009. You can notice that because his car didnt use the that aerodinamic wheel which was allowed in 2009. He just improved when they changed the brake brand and the heating problem was done. Indeed, Rubens lost the 2nd place in the drivers championship but he had some bad luck moments like the Australia and Spa when he had clutch problems, not mentioning the fact that Ferrari, Mclaren and speacially Red Bull got their cars right by the end of the season. And for me and many more brazilians fans, it was the best chance Rubens had in his carrer to win a F1 title.

[@Sean-if7rp]

Bet Honda regrets not staying for 2009

[@TheRagingStorm98]

Didn't have a choice because of the Financial collapse in 08 even if they wanted to they couldn't have stayed.

[@Dayrahl]

@@TheRagingStorm98 is that honeslty what you believe then you are just way to innocent

[@TheRagingStorm98]

@@Dayrahl How many F1 teams pulled out due to the Financial crash. Sorry when there is a Global Recession going on even the biggest companies have to make sacrifices. If you watch the most recent beyond the grid podcast Brawn goes into detail about how screwed Honda were. It is reality, no amount of willpower to continue or to believe in success of this car was going to keep Honda in the sport. Finance and money are to crucial to this sport and after 08 allot of teams suddenly found themselves without that money leading to team withdrawal of BMW Toyota and Honda by the 2010. I had to watch that happen live on air. So believe me there really was no way any of these teams would have stayed in a way the Global crash was the perfect exit opportunity for them.

[@GTChucker86]

Dayrahl Everyone was tanking financially that year. When were you even born?

[@Dayrahl]

@@GTChucker86 let me guess you think stabilizing the economy is done by stopping all spending.. we are talking about billion dollar companies. They didn't loose profitability that year they saw F1 as an expense.. so they pulled out so they could get their bonuses and they look like they are affected by it. Fuck me propel don't undertsand how it works

[@SirShoX0r]

A great piece, enthralling.

[@realkilju]

One of the best looking f1 cars ever

[@DxsPro]

from memory brawn bought honda f1 for a dollar as long as he kept the team employed.. but more importantly he got all the team infrastructure .. then sold it all to merc for like $100 million a year later. So he didnt really buy the team because he believed in the car.

[@ben6993]

Couple of other bits of info if anyones interested. Mercedes and Ferrari offered to supply an engine to Brawn GP, seeing the struggles they were in. The team went with Mercedes because the factory was close by and the engine fitted better One of the proposed names for the team was "pure racing" The reason Brawn GP didn't perform as well in the second half of the season was due to their lack of budget. They couldn't afford to develop the car during the year which is why they couldn't keep the advantage up. Another reason was Jenson was under so much pressure, the championship was his to lose, a situation he never imagined himself in. When Jenson drove the car (for the first time I believe) he didn't like how it drove. Unbeknownst to him he had set the 2nd quickest time. The gearbox sat 10-12mm higher than the Honda one, which had an effect on the car's handling. A lot of money was thrown at the car and considering they only had 3 chassis and a limited budget its amazing they won both titles. Had they had the funds to carry on development they would've captured the title a lot sooner in my opinion. One of my favourite liveries.

[@10HW]

If I were the FIA, I would have only one rule: Be fast.

[@jiyanmehta7250]

Good you're not into the FIA.

[@10HW]

@@jiyanmehta7250 I totally agree

[@fpsdustikins5374]

Ross went to my school - definitely the most popular of our alumni :D

[@wafflesx5423]

to think, if honda wouldnt have pulled out. f1 in general would be completely different and they probably wouldve dragged their eyes out by the end of the season

[@sabbatically]

What a brilliant video! Complimenti

[@pgr3290]

I just don't care whether you think the car was legal or not. F1 needs stories like this, it adds to the lore. Fairytale.

[@GTChucker86]

P GR it wasnt illegal. ferrari was just having a hissy fit cause they’re still sore of Massa’s loss the previous year

[@medipeace307]

there are 2 GOATS in F1 ; 1. Ross Brawn . 2. LORD MAHAVEER .

[@David-mr3gw]

excellant video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@FrontSideBus]

Brawn wasn’t stupid. He knew full well the effect of the double diffuser would have so pushed hard for the diffusers to be reduced in size, a double whammy on your opponents when you roll up with a car which has a diffuser twice as big as theirs...

[@tryamukna2123]

I was in Melbourne for their first race. The car was plain white on the first day, no sponsor then. No one thought they would end up winning the race. simply amazing....

[@thunderBLGL]

1:39 I love this

[@chexfactor]

Cracking video!

[@andrewtarbett5766]

Great documentary... :D

[@Pasthim]

Fascinating, I never knew other teams had the DD too!

[@louiswoodward8937]

can we just have a moment to respect the fact that Button drove and entire f1 season, winning 6 races without breaking anything.