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

F1 Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ross Braun and you're listening to Beyond the Grid.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, Tom Clarkson here and welcome to Beyond the Grid, presented by Bose
0:17.0	Quiet Comfort 352 Wireless Headphones. Now we've got something a little bit special for you this
0:23.4	week. My guest is Formula One's managing director of motorsports Ross Braun, but we're not going to
0:28.9	talk about the here and now. We're getting together to discuss a fairytale that happened 10 years
0:34.8	ago. For those of you who don't know, Ross once had his own team, Braun Braun pre. It existed
0:41.2	for less than 12 months, yet it left an indelible mark on the sport. It rose somewhat
0:46.9	incredibly from the ashes of Honda F1 after they withdrew from the sport at the end of 2008,
0:53.0	and thanks to some innovative thinking and the pretty determination of everybody involved,
0:58.5	it blitzed the field in 2009 with Jensen Button and Ruben Sparakello. It was one of the most
1:05.2	incredible stories in the modern history of the sport. Jensen winning the drivers title and the
1:10.7	team an unlikely constructors crown, and you sense when talking to Ross that he still has to
1:16.4	pinch himself even now 10 years on. This is one amazing story. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
1:23.9	Ross, great to have you on the show. This time we're going to talk about Braun Braun pre. Crazy to
1:32.1	think that it's 10 years since all that. Does it feel a long time ago? It does actually. Yeah.
1:40.9	It wasn't that long ago that I was reminded that it was the 10th anniversary. We were running the car
1:47.1	a couple of times this year in celebration of it, and it was really when that started to come up
1:52.5	that I reminded myself, or I was reminded that it was 10 years. A lot's happened in those 10 years.
2:01.7	I'd like to call it one of the greatest fairy tales in the history of Formula One. Is that how you view it?
2:08.6	In some ways, yes. I think there was a lot of, if I might put a substance to it, and that
2:16.1	it wasn't a free. It happened for various reasons, which all came together at the same time.
2:24.6	There was a huge amount of work put in that car, a huge amount of investment, Honda investment.
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