Brawn GP - Mercedes - The Customer is King
A nice promotional video that Timstr11 over on http://www.autosport.com/ forum found
Friday, 8 May 2009
Brawn GP - Barcelona Photo Gallery
A few pictures from Barcelona for you perusal:
Images from the following sources (Images from Sutton can also be purchased from their website)
www.autosport.com
http://f1.gpupdate.net
http://www.sutton-images.com/
www.motorsport-total.com
Brawn GP - Barcelona - Free Practice 2
Free Practice 2 for us this year seems to be about consolidation and trying to hone the cars setup whereas FP1 provides faster lighter setups. Rubens posted the fastest time for Brawn GP on what I believe were hard tyres (I will clarify this) posting a 1:21.843 just a shade behind Jenson's fastest FP1 time. Jenson posted a 1:22.052 in this session 0.464 behind fastest man Nico Rosberg.
Pos Driver Time Laps
1. Rosberg 1:21.588 43
2. Nakajima 1:21.740 + 0.152 40
3. Alonso 1:21.781 + 0.193 36
4. Barrichello 1:21.843 + 0.255 39
5. Webber 1:22.027 + 0.439 37
6. Button 1:22.052 + 0.464 35
7. Vettel 1:22.082 + 0.494 45
8. Piquet 1:22.349 + 0.761 26
9. Buemi 1:22.571 + 0.983 17
10. Raikkonen 1:22.599 + 1.011 40
11. Bourdais 1:22.615 + 1.027 30
12. Fisichella 1:22.670 + 1.082 32
13. Hamilton 1:22.809 + 1.221 31
14. Kovalainen 1:22.876 + 1.288 29
15. Massa 1:22.878 + 1.290 35
16. Kubica 1:22.948 + 1.360 40
17. Heidfeld 1:23.173 + 1.585 39
18. Glock 1:23.360 + 1.772 46
19. Trulli 1:23.623 + 2.035 47
20. Sutil
Jenson had the following to say after Free Practice 2:
"Qualifying and the race at the important ones. Today is not important to be quickest," Button told reporters after practice. "It's more about getting a good feeling and a good balance.
"I'm not there yet and I'm a bit disappointed with the way the car is at the moment. Hopefully we can improve overnight, I know that we will because we know which direction to go." Read more...
Brawn GP - Terminator Salvation
As I posted the update pictures yesterday I mentioned the colaboration with the film Terminator Salvation which new livery that promotes the film adorns the rear wing of both cars:
Brawn GP CEO Nick Fry said:
"We are thrilled to be supporting Sony Pictures Releasing International with the launch of Terminator Salvation at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix."
"Our promotional partnership will see our race cars and our garage branded with the famous Terminator imagery as we help launch one of Hollywood's biggest movies of the year to over 580 million Formula One viewers in over 90 countries."
"The Terminator brand promises exciting action and high drama as machines and human ingenuity battle for supremacy. It's a perfect match for Brawn GP and Formula 1."
Brawn GP - Barcelona - Free Practice 1
Hi BGP fans the wait is over and Barcelona is here. Some teams have bought a raft of aero parts to Barcelona but mainly BMW and Ferrari. Early indications from FP1 shows Brawn GP are still ahead of the crowd with a late dash by Jenson on the super softs posting the only time of the session in the 1.21's. Rubens just over a second behind down in tenth. The onboard shot we had of Rube's fastest lap showed he seemed to be fighting with the brake balance of the car.
Pos Driver Time LapsRead more...
1. Button 1:21.799 21
2. Trulli 1:22.154 + 0.355 30
3. Kubica 1:22.221 + 0.422 24
4. Heidfeld 1:22.658 + 0.859 14
5. Nakajima 1:22.659 + 0.860 24
6. Rosberg 1:22.667 + 0.868 26
7. Piquet 1:22.753 + 0.954 24
8. Glock 1:22.828 + 1.029 29
9. Massa 1:22.855 + 1.056 15
10. Barrichello 1:22.859 + 1.060 24
11. Raikkonen 1:22.873 + 1.074 20
12. Webber 1:22.934 + 1.135 25
13. Vettel 1:22.959 + 1.160 24
14. Hamilton 1:23.077 + 1.278 21
15. Bourdais 1:23.088 + 1.289 30
16. Fisichella 1:23.089 + 1.290 25
17. Alonso 1:23.157 + 1.358 18
18. Buemi 1:23.185 + 1.386 31
19. Kovalainen 1:23.522 + 1.723 17
20. Sutil 1:23.536 + 1.737 19
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Brawn GP - Pictures from Barcelona
Just to wet your appetite for this weekend a few pictures i've just found on http://www.f1.gpupdate.net/
ENGINE COVER (FROM THIS PICTURE THE COVER LOOKS ASYMETRICAL)
REAR WING - TERMINATOR SALVATION LIVERY
So what do these pictures tell us? Well I think we are still holding some cards close to our chest as from other pictures I have seen we have the old engine covers in place on the chassis. Whether Sir Richard has sold the advertising space he has to the Film studio or whether this is additional sponsorship I await to see. I previously posted some pictures of a front wing arrangement that I now feel may be incorrect until I have clarification I have taken them down.
Read more...Getting involved with the blog
Don't be shy, I've noticed of late that we have a massive reader base and I don't mind keeping you all up to date with everything Brawn GP but you can all get involved and pass your own judgements too. I've added a new tool so that when you post a comment to the site you can also have your own avatars and add pictures etc. I've also added a link to my twitter page (www.twitter.com/brawngpblog) which I will also update as much as I can.
Read more...Brawngp.com Updated
If you haven't already noticed the official website www.brawngp.com has been updated.
Read more...Monday, 4 May 2009
Brawn GP - Ecclestone 'Brawn GP won't get prize money'
The Independant yesterday ran a story talking to Bernie Ecclestone about a number of concerns in F1. The relevant Brawn GP story was about prize money, when Honda was renamed Brawn GP the team became a new entry.
I quote The Independant 'The Concorde Agreement, the contract committing the teams to race in F1, says prize money earned by outfits which have left the sport should be split between those remaining in the sport. However, the contract is not in force and although the teams initially agreed to give the money to Brawn, there are now objections to this given Brawn's success.'
This may well be true but is not the correct way to look at the argument, Honda did leave F1 so Honda should recieve no money and the monies split amongst the remaining teams. However when Brawn GP became a new team this meant they could not win any prize money, teams in their first year of F1 do not recieve prize money. Bernie went on to say that 'the money will not be paid to Brawn and he adds it will not be paid out at all if there is not unanimous agreement on who should receive it.'
Further to that Bernie threw a shot at BGP 'It would have been better for the team to have retained their former name. "I opposed the name Brawn," he says, claiming it is "not a good name, doesn't mean anything to the public, better being Honda than Brawn".
I wonder how Honda would have felt about a team using their name that they would no longer have input in and Mercedes power. Bernie's comments sometimes bemuse me.
Friday, 1 May 2009
BrawnGP.Blogspot.com Podcast 1/5/09
As promised the updates are filtering through for the site.
Here is the 1st podcast for the site (Now you can hear me as well as reading what I have to say, sorry!)
BGP Podcast 001 - 1/5/09
As this is my first foray into podcasting i'm sure things will get better so please bear with me ;)
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