A ‘new’ team that only just made it to the Melbourne grid may be the surprise package of 2009 – thanks to some of F1’s oldest heads.
Take some Brawn. Add a large quantity of brains. Throw in a Button. Finish with a dash of Barrichello. Mix well… and you may well have the equation that throws up a successful Grand Prix team.
The final flurry of F1 testing in Spain in early March revealed two familiar names at the top of the unofficial timesheets: Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. But the old-timers were in an unfamiliar setting: the ‘new’ F1 team known as Brawn GP, in a car powered by Mercedes-Benz engines and christened BGP001.
Brawn GP rose like a phoenix from the ashes of Honda, whose withdrawal rocked the Formula One world late in 2008.
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