Comments on: Official: Ross Brawn to join Honda for 2008

By: alan

alan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:30:22 +0000

on brawn joining honda – well you couldnt get a more committed and good team leader than him to guide honda forward and unless he has been giving some advice and input on next years honda since april?? – maybe not – I agree it would take a year for that to produce a competitive car for honda – the big thing is how many times has he produced a win just by pitlane strategy alone – something good to look forward to in 2008

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:16:21 +0000

You're quite right Loki but remember, this deal might have been done in April, or even earlier. If so he won't have spent all his time fishing and pootling around the garden. He'll have plenty of plans...

By: Loki

Loki — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:00:24 +0000

As someone’s pointed out, it may be a year – perhaps even more – before we see any vast improvement. It took a short while to take Ferrari to the top, and that was with the right people (Schumacher, Byrne) at the right time . . . you need the team to gel and push together, which won’t just happen overnight.

I’m sure Honda have the right key figures to be competitive, it just needs to come together.

Hiring Brawn is not a quick fix solution, it’s obviously a long term goal, so it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out.

By: KB

KB — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:02:17 +0000

Wonder will that mean ITV might mention Jenson Buttons name this year….I think Honda can only benefit hugely from this move, lets hope we see Jenson get a competitive car!”

By: milos

milos — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:56:11 +0000

“I wonder how the Honda people will take to Brawn’s way of running a team…”

Yep M Smith, that is what I am waiting to see as well …

By: alan

alan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:56:10 +0000

Well there has been one exception – john surtees – a world champion on bikes and with ferrari – still has his championship winning ferrari as it used to be company policy to scrap them at the end of the season!!

By: oliver

oliver — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:44:54 +0000

Nigel Stepney did say, several months back, that Ross Brawn was planning a move to another team, along with a few Ferrari staff. Makes me wonder what he, Ross, knows about the spy affair. I’m not suggesting his hands are unclean though.

By: D Winn

D Winn — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:07:30 +0000

Exactly Journeyer, as an example, what was the thinking behind appointing Nakamoto ? Just because you are good on two wheels does not mean success in F1. Its like saying someone that can design kites would would be good at the top of Boeing.

By: Journeyer

Journeyer — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:53:37 +0000

By default, it’s a masterstroke… The only people that can prevent that is Honda themselves. What they need now is the mentality they had in the 1960s and the 1980s. Not their recent 21st century mentality.

By: D Winn

D Winn — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:46:32 +0000

I think it is a strange situation, that within minutes of Honda announcing the RB coup, Ferrari announce a reshuffle that excludes JT !
Why did RB not rejoin Ferrari if there was a reshuffle planned.
At the risk of being cynical – is the reshuffle punishment for JT not retiring and allowing RB to take over ?
I also hope that RB does indeed have total control at Honda without the influence of ‘Honda mentality’.
It remains to be seen in the long term if Honda has performed a ‘Masterstroke’