Comments on: Brawn GP tests its 2009 F1 car

By: Mouse_Nightshirt

Mouse_Nightshirt — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:56:33 +0000

Heh, Retrospectivity is great!

By: TommyC

TommyC — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:14:20 +0000

how wrong you were…

By: siwe

siwe — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:46:04 +0000

They are a winner guys

By: Arthur954

Arthur954 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:36:57 +0000

the team colours could be established as:
– dark metallic green plus silver or
– dark metallic green plus GOLD

This is a very elegantly proportioned car, independently of the livery

By: Arthur954

Arthur954 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:44:06 +0000

Good looking car ! the main thing is that they don´t use all-black wheels, which is a very old look.
The wheels with the silver outline look great. Can´t wait to see the final livery … make it elegant, not funky !
Good luck to Brawn GP !!!

By: AlvinK

AlvinK — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:40:36 +0000

is it just me or does that car look so much like the mp4-24? more than just engine supply perhaps?

By: PJA

PJA — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:20:24 +0000

From the few pictures I have seen so far I quite like the car, I much prefer the low and wide style nose to high and narrow. Although the realistic expectation is probably the back of the grid I wouldn’t be surprised if they are not in last place in the championship at the end of the season.

I think I read somewhere that they won’t unveil their livery until just before the Melbourne GP.
It’s probably a case of liking what I am used to, but modern F1 cars all in one colour just don’t seem right to me, likewise classic cars from the 1950s etc before wings don’t seem right to me if they are covered in sponsors logos.

By: DGR-F1

DGR-F1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:48:48 +0000

Two minor points about this great looking car:
1. Why wasn’t it run with a Honda engine anywhere? Even if ultimately they lost the Honda power, the team needed to get the car seen by potential sponsors.
2. Is there now enough time left to do serious testing before the start of the season, and to get the drivers, mechanics etc accustomed to the car?
I do support any attempt by an independant team, but I get the feeling Honda are still in the background here and have held back what could be a successful enterprise.

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:17:17 +0000

I think we still have to take this team very seriously. The original version of this car was under development for some months, with Honda money and resources, and by all probability, the first car where Brawn could really have had an overseeing role, as he joined Honda when the turning-out-to-be-dreary RA108 should have been done, basically. So even if they didn’t test until now, I don’t expect them to be in such shambles that they couldn’t get a decent result in Melbourne.

Especially if you consider that Force India and even more so Toro Rosso had a pretty late start in testing with their new cars.

What I’m wondering is if Brawn will be using KERS. The side pods of the BGP 001 look much narrower to me at the bottom, compared to the McLaren running with the Mercedes engine and KERS, so I’d suspect Brawn probably won’t bother with that for the first few races, and focus on getting a solid performance out of the car as it is.

By: fastmike

fastmike — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:24:46 +0000

This could be the greatest thing to hit F1 this year. I sure hope so , Mr.R.brawn has a reputation for technical excellence and picking the right strategy .. and with Jenson and Ruebens surely the ingredience for a top line team .