Brawn GP - Mercedes set to make F1 announcement

While typing this the Mercedes board are about to make an announcement regarding it's F1 future. It's muted that the announcement will be in regards to their buy in of the Brawn GP team. Specualtion is rife this morning that they will also announce the driver line up and that Jenson may even be on the move to McLaren to partner Lewis. I don't understand the move personally as this would move Brawn GP backwards in the garage allocation with JB taking the 1 and 2 numbers to McLaren. Why would Mercedes buy into BGP to strengthen their grasp on the ownership of an F1 team only to push out the driver the team is built around?

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Brawn GP - Abu Dhabi - Post Qualifying Fuel Weights

Pos  Driver       Weight (kg)
 1.  Hamilton     658.5
 2.  Vettel       663.0
 3.  Webber       660.0
 4.  Barrichello  655.0
 5.  Button       657.0
 6.  Trulli       661.0
 7.  Kubica       654.5
 8.  Heidfeld     664.0
 9.  Rosberg      665.0
10.  Buemi        661.5
11.  Raikkonen    692.0*
12.  Kobayashi    694.3*
13.  Kovalainen   697.0*
14.  Nakajima     704.0*
15.  Alguersuari  696.5*
16.  Alonso       708.3*
17.  Liuzzi       695.0*
18.  Sutil        696.0*
19.  Grosjean     710.8*
20.  Fisichella   692.5*
 
* Declared weight
 

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Brawn GP - Abu Dhabi - Qualifying

Pos  Driver       Q1        Q2       Q3
 1.  Hamilton     1:39.873  1:39.695 1:40.948
 2.  Vettel       1:40.666  1:39.984 1:41.615
 3.  Webber       1:40.667  1:40.272 1:41.726
 4.  Barrichello  1:40.574  1:40.421 1:41.786
 5.  Button       1:40.378  1:40.148 1:41.892
 6.  Trulli       1:40.517  1:40.373 1:41.897
 7.  Kubica       1:40.520  1:40.545 1:41.992
 8.  Heidfeld     1:40.558  1:40.635 1:42.343
 9.  Rosberg      1:40.842  1:40.661 1:42.583
10.  Buemi        1:40.908  1:40.430 1:42.713
11.  Raikkonen    1:41.100  1:40.726 
12.  Kobayashi    1:41.035  1:40.777 
13.  Kovalainen   1:40.808  1:40.983 
14.  Nakajima     1:41.096  1:41.148 
15.  Alguersuari  1:41.503  1:41.689
16.  Alonso       1:41.667
17.  Liuzzi       1:41.701
18.  Sutil        1:41.863
19.  Grosjean     1:41.950
20.  Fisichella   1:42.184
 
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Brawn GP - Abu Dhabi - Free Practice 3

Pos  Driver        Time              Laps
 1.  Button        1:40.625           21
 2.  Hamilton      1:40.627 + 0.002   18
 3.  Barrichello   1:40.907 + 0.282   20
 4.  Buemi         1:40.934 + 0.309   22
 5.  Heidfeld      1:41.241 + 0.616   18
 6.  Kovalainen    1:41.263 + 0.638   20
 7.  Trulli        1:41.310 + 0.685   23
 8.  Kubica        1:41.322 + 0.697   20
 9.  Sutil         1:41.372 + 0.747   22
10.  Raikkonen     1:41.373 + 0.748   23
11.  Vettel        1:41.403 + 0.778   19
12.  Rosberg       1:41.478 + 0.853   22
13.  Kobayashi     1:41.499 + 0.874   24
14.  Liuzzi        1:41.675 + 1.050   20
15.  Webber        1:41.682 + 1.057   15
16.  Alonso        1:41.897 + 1.272   19
17.  Nakajima      1:42.156 + 1.531   21
18.  Grosjean      1:42.213 + 1.588   19
19.  Fisichella    1:42.351 + 1.726   23
 
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Brawn GP - Abu Dhabi - Free Practice 2

Pos  Driver       Time              Laps
 1.  Kovalainen   1:41.307            35
 2.  Hamilton     1:41.504  + 0.197   34
 3.  Button       1:41.541  + 0.234   39
 4.  Vettel       1:41.591  + 0.284   37
 5.  Kobayashi    1:41.636  + 0.329   34
 6.  Buemi        1:41.683  + 0.376   37
 7.  Webber       1:41.684  + 0.377   34
 8.  Barrichello  1:41.831  + 0.524   38
 9.  Rosberg      1:41.931  + 0.624   39
10.  Raikkonen    1:41.987  + 0.680   39
11.  Sutil        1:42.180  + 0.873   28
12.  Nakajima     1:42.245  + 0.938   36
13.  Heidfeld     1:42.278  + 0.971   36
14.  Trulli       1:42.409  + 1.102   30
15.  Liuzzi       1:42.530  + 1.223   33
16.  Alonso       1:42.782  + 1.475   29
17.  Fisichella   1:42.932  + 1.625   37
18.  Grosjean     1:43.021  + 1.714   37
19.  Alguersuari  1:43.022  + 1.715   39
20.  Kubica       1:43.708  + 2.401   13
 
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Brawn GP - Abu Dhabi - Free Practice 1

Pos  Driver       Time               Laps
 1.  Hamilton     1:43.939             18
 2.  Button       1:44.035  +  0.096   20
 3.  Vettel       1:44.153  +  0.214   28
 4.  Barrichello  1:44.207  +  0.268   23
 5.  Heidfeld     1:44.667  +  0.728   23
 6.  Buemi        1:44.687  +  0.748   32
 7.  Sutil        1:44.688  +  0.749   14
 8.  Webber       1:44.805  +  0.866   25
09.  Alguersuari  1:44.955  +  1.016   33
10.  Trulli       1:44.958  +  1.019   25
11.  Kubica       1:44.988  +  1.049   22
12.  Kovalainen   1:45.123  +  1.184   20
13.  Rosberg      1:45.649  +  1.710   27
14.  Nakajima     1:45.679  +  1.740   25
15.  Raikkonen    1:45.704  +  1.765   27
16.  Alonso       1:45.865  +  1.926   23
17.  Liuzzi       1:46.239  +  2.300   22
18.  Fisichella   1:46.267  +  2.328   26
19.  Kobayashi    1:46.364  +  2.425   28
20.  Grosjean     1:46.411  +  2.472   27
 
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Brawn GP - Interlagos - Race

Jenson and Brawn GP took both the drivers and constructors championships in an awesome race that saw Jenson storm from 14th to 5th. I'm still away on holiday and the bar where we are staying was due to play the football whilst the race was on. We managed to blag them to change it for the GP :) What a race! Jenson made some amazing overtakes into turn 1 cementing the reason why he is now the drivers champion. Rubens was unfortunate to get a puncture late on in the race which dropped him too far down the order for him to continue his championship challenge. Meanwhile with both Brawn drivers scoring it left RBR with no chance of winning the constructors title even with Webber doing a sterling job to win the race.

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Brawn GP - Interlagos - Qualifying

Pos  Driver         Q1        Q2        Q3
 1.  Barrichello    1:24.100  1:21.659  1:19.576
 2.  Webber         1:24.722  1:20.803  1:19.668
 3.  Sutil          1:24.447  1:20.753  1:19.912
 4.  Trulli         1:24.621  1:20.635  1:20.097
 5.  Raikkonen      1:23.047  1:21.378  1:20.168
 6.  Buemi          1:24.591  1:20.701  1:20.250
 7.  Rosberg        1:22.828  1:20.368  1:20.326
 8.  Kubica         1:23.072  1:21.147  1:20.631
 9.  Nakajima       1:23.161  1:20.427  1:20.674
10.  Alonso         1:24.842  1:21.657  1:21.422
11.  Kobayashi      1:24.335  1:21.960  
12.  Alguersuari    1:24.773  1:22.231  
13.  Grosjean       1:24.394  1:22.477  
14.  Button         1:24.297  1:22.504  
15.  Liuzzi         1:24.645  
16.  Vettel         1:25.009
17.  Kovalainen     1:25.052
18.  Hamilton       1:25.192
19.  Heidfeld       1:25.515
20.  Fisichella     1:40.703

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Brawn GP - Interlagos - Free Practice 3

Pos  Driver        Time              Laps
 1.  Rosberg       1:23.182 +         9
 2.  Nakajima      1:23.832 + 0.650   7
 3.  Button        1:24.122 + 0.940   6
 4.  Alonso        1:24.125 + 0.943   5
 5.  Sutil         1:24.149 + 0.967   4
 6.  Grosjean      1:24.389 + 1.207   5
 7.  Buemi         1:24.443 + 1.261   5
 8.  Trulli        1:24.859 + 1.677   5
 9.  Heidfeld      1:24.867 + 1.685   5
10.  Webber        1:25.440 + 2.258   5
11.  Raikkonen     1:25.508 + 2.326   4
12.  Kovalainen    1:25.685 + 2.503   5
13.  Alguersuari   1:26.224 + 3.042   6
14.  Barrichello   1:26.530 + 3.348   4
15.  Vettel        1:27.047 + 3.865   4
16.  Liuzzi        1:27.341 + 4.159   4
17.  Hamilton      1:27.798 + 4.616   4
18.  Fisichella    1:29.285 + 6.103   4
19.  Kubica        1:29.895 + 6.713   3
20.  Kobayashi     1:30.259 + 7.077   4

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Brawn GP - Interlagos - Free Practice 2

Pos  Driver       Time              Laps
 1.  Alonso       1:12.314            27
 2.  Buemi        1:12.357  + 0.043   45
 3.  Barrichello  1:12.459  + 0.145   38
 4.  Webber       1:12.514  + 0.200   41
 5.  Button       1:12.523  + 0.209   45
 6.  Trulli       1:12.605  + 0.291   37
 7.  Vettel       1:12.611  + 0.297   45
 8.  Rosberg      1:12.633  + 0.319   42
 9.  Sutil        1:12.720  + 0.406   35
10.  Hamilton     1:12.749  + 0.435   39
11.  Grosjean     1:12.806  + 0.492   27
12.  Kubica       1:12.862  + 0.548   39
13.  Kobayashi    1:12.869  + 0.555   40
14.  Nakajima     1:12.929  + 0.615   41
15.  Heidfeld     1:12.948  + 0.634   38
16.  Liuzzi       1:12.950  + 0.636   36
17.  Kovalainen   1:12.992  + 0.678   39
18.  Raikkonen    1:13.026  + 0.712   42
19.  Alguersuari  1:13.041  + 0.727   40
20.  Fisichella   1:13.275  + 0.961   38

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