Ross Brawn joins Honda

irishman_abroad

Well its official hes gone to honda.

http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=41272

I just cant see why he left Ferrari, why would you leave the team youve been with for 10+ years and brought to the top to go to a struggling outfit who are nowhere.

Money cannot be the only answer.

Ghost Train

I guess with Ferrari he's had sucess and can't really do any better. At least with honda there's a huge company that have the resources and after this season they can only get better (although they were so bad this year, it might be a year or two before theres any real improvement)

Good to see him back in the sport

Frank Bullitt

Its definitely good news for Honda but they already have next years car designed so it wont be an instant impact.

heyjude

irishman_abroad wrote: »

Well its official hes gone to honda.

http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=41272

I just cant see why he left Ferrari, why would you leave the team youve been with for 10+ years and brought to the top to go to a struggling outfit who are nowhere.

Money cannot be the only answer.

I suspect that having left Ferrari and taken a year out, his old job had been filled and it would have been very hard for the team to give him his old job back.

He won't find it as easy with Honda, for while the team has plenty of money and may well be able to recruit any technical staff that Braun wants, you couldn't compare Button or Barrichello with Michael Schumacher and in the Ferrari package, Schumacher was a major factor not only in developing the car, but he has made every car he has ever driven better. Now's the time for Button to do the same, as I'm not sure Barrichello is a long term fixture at this stage of his career.

whatthe...

As a Ferrari fan, im ok with the fact that Ross has taken a change. As he said himself, he likes the challenge. Perhaps this was not at Ferrari considering their previous success and for someone that age with that much experience in F1, the motivation to drive a team forward must be there. In the case of Ferrari - they are already at the top. He also mentiones his relationship with his family. If he were to go to Maranello again, the distance would again affect his personal life.

There is alot of reshuffling going on at Ferrari. Todt is stepping down with Dominicalli taking over as team director. I think this is very good time for Ferrari to get out with the old and in with the new (as they say). They'll probably go through a bad spell as any other team would with a major change within the team but it again with flourish in the future as it did in the Brawn/Todt years. A positive move with positive results. If both Brawn and Todt stayed, I think it would just delayed the long-term development of the team for growing improvements.

Forza Ferrari

zeris

Typical political shenanigans at Ferrari. It was well rumoured/confirmed that Brawn was meeting Ferrari during the summer. It was well known and later confirmed that Montezemolo wanted Todt out of the role of team boss. This was a role that Brawn might want.

The timing of the Ferrari staff shuffle and Honda's announcement cannot be co-incidental. Maybe some sort of contractual embargo on the news on all sides. Did the new come as a surprise to Todt? Surely Brawn must known he wasn't getting the job if he had reached agreement with Honda. A bluff by Montezemolo?

Still, Nick Fry has been meeting a number of top Ferrari men this year.

Must be a kick for Nick Fry to have to hire his successor. Those crazy Japanese and the whole saving face. First Schumacher is allowed to announce he is leaving the team and now this. In a couple of months Fry will suddenly want to spend more time with his family and step aside.

Makes you wonder who Mike Gascoyne punched at Toyota...