Ross Brawn
Ross Brawn
Ross James Brawn OBEis a British former motorsport engineer and Formula One team principal. He worked for a number of Formula One teams, serving as the technical director of the championship-winning Benetton and Ferrari teams. He took a sabbatical from the sport in 2007 but returned to F1 for the 2008 season as Team Principal of Honda. He was the owner of the Brawn GP team, which acquired the Honda team in early 2009, and won the Formula One Constructors...
afternoon early given good happened happy hope performance position problems reasonably running stronger therefore
Michael's performance was pretty good given his position early in the running order. We are therefore reasonably happy with his performance. Unfortunately, we had some problems with Rubens' car, which was not as good in the afternoon as it had been in the morning. Now we will have to investigate to see why that happened and hope we can have a good race. It's a shame, as Rubens could have been in a much stronger qualifying position.
convinced decision early ferrari given maybe
We haven't given him an ultimatum, but I'm convinced that (Michael) will let Ferrari know his decision between now and June, maybe even as early as May.
america good last precedent proper sure tag victory wants year
I don't think he wants the tag of America last year as his first victory. So for sure it's the first proper victory of an Aldo Costa-designed car. It's a good precedent for the future.
wants
We want to do it, he wants to do it, I think it would be a big success.
discussing ferrari happy involved pleased role
As to my role in the future, we are discussing that at the moment. I'm very happy at Ferrari, very pleased with the way things are and would very much like to be involved with Ferrari in the future.
progress sort
We need to see how things progress before we make those sort of predictions or scenarios,
bit huge last nice
One was a nice day out and the last one was a bit more serious. You can see he's got huge potential,
changed rule saying suit tire
Now they are saying that the tire rule is being changed because it doesn't suit Ferrari!
agreement few next serious winter year
This winter and next year he'll do a few more serious tests. It's a kind of open-ended agreement,
came fry head line nick proposal
Patrick Head and Nick Fry came to us with an alternative proposal which was much more in line with what we wanted.
bit today
I think today was a bit too extreme,
difficult racing term valentino
I think the thing that's difficult to give Valentino in the shorter term is four-wheel racing experience,
commercial driver huge imagine point potential view
I think there's a huge potential from a driver point of view and from a commercial point of view you can imagine the potential it would have as well.
car drive provide races wants wins
He wants to drive a car which wins races and it's up to us to provide him with one.