{"id":6426,"date":"2009-03-29T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2009-03-29T13:39:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T20:39:17","slug":"autmobile-f1-brawn-gamble-pays-off-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6426","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 &#8211; Brawn gamble pays off well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WHILE others were slashing costs and even pulling out of Formula One, Ross Brawn bucked the trend and his gamble paid off handsomely on Sunday when his cars finished 1-2 in their maiden race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 54-year-old Briton, a former machinist born in Manchester, completed a 100 percent buy-out of Honda F1 earlier this month just in time to get his cars on the grid for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rookie team, powered by Mercedes engines, performed well in pre-season testing but few could have predicted such a sensational start for Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, who finished first and second respectively here. It marked the first time since 1977 that a team won a Grand Prix in its debut race, and the first time since 1954 that a team finished 1-2 in its maiden effort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sunday&#8217;s historic achievement has much to do with &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/Sport\/Story\/STIStory_356081.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHILE others were slashing costs and even pulling out of Formula One, Ross Brawn bucked the trend and his gamble paid off handsomely on Sunday when his cars finished 1-2 in their maiden race. The 54-year-old Briton, a former machinist born in Manchester, completed a 100 percent buy-out of Honda F1 earlier this month just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}