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Brawn Loses Virgin Sponsorship

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The 2009 Formula 1 season had a story-book quality for Brawn GP.  Between Honda’s December announcement that they were leaving the sport, and the opening race of 2009, in March, Ross Brawn had to find a way to rescue the team. He was helped immeasureably by funds left in the team treasury by Honda – [...]

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Williams Confirm Barrichello and Hulkenberg

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The Williams Formula 1 team have formally announced their driver line-up for 2010.  The new pilots will be veteran Rubens Barrichello and rookie Nico Hulkenberg.  It had been anticipated for several weeks that both of the current Williams drivers, Kazuki Nakajima and Nico Rosberg would be replaced, and in recent days the addition of Barrichello [...]

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Button Might Join McLaren in 2010

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The latest rumbling in this year’s hyperactive silly season is that Jenson Button might partner Lewis Hamilton at McLaren in 2010.  It’s been widely reported that Button and Brawn GP are currently at a stalemate in trying to hammer out a new contract for the new world champ. Button’s manager Richard Goddard recently told the [...]

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Button Too Dear for Brawn?

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It is common knowledge that drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello took pay cuts this year when the moribund Honda works team morphed into the privateer Brawn GP.  There have been suggestions that pay cuts were as much as 80%.  Last March, this seemed like a valid option for both drivers, as their choices were [...]

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Does Button Deserve the Title?

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Does Jenson Button deserve the Formula 1 World Champion’s title?  In purely statistical terms, the fellow who racks up the most points deserves the title, so the short answer to the question is yes.  Button did what he needed to do, and had luck when he needed it, while his rivals, for one reason or [...]

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Brawn Thinks Button is Choking

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Much has been made about Jenson Button’s decline in form over the second half of this season, and Ross Brawn has weighed in with his own evaluation.  He has suggested that Button’s driving became more conservative once he realized he was the odds on favorite to take the championship this year.  Button took five victories [...]

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No Brawn Guarantee for Rubens in 2010

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According to a report in The Guardian today, Ross Brawn has offered Reubens Barrichello little assurance of a seat at the team table next year.  While Brawn conceded that both of his current drivers, Barrichello and Jenson Button, were doing “a fantastic job,” he went on to say, regarding the 2010 driver lineup, “It’s still [...]

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