2009 F1 Season: Jensen Button and Brawn GP, where did these guys come from?

However credit must also be given to the great racing strategist, Ross Brawn. Since taking full control of the ex-Honda F1 team, the Brawn GP squad has been unstoppable. Although we found out not invulnerable, with Rubens Barichello parking his Brawn GP car before all 58 laps were run. At the end of the race you could hear Brawn GP’s number 1 driver thanking the team for their efforts, and thanking the man for building this race winning car.

The combination of Button and Brawn has been around since 2007 after Ross Brawn joined Honda from Ferrari. Over the past two years the duo just couldn’t find the right combination of power and agility to make Button a race winning driver, but Brawn was so sure about the team’s 2009 entry that when Honda announced that they were leaving the sport, Ross Brawn personally took the reigns and hasn’t had to look back yet. This kind of instantaneous success is enough to make any race fan reconsider whether Ferrari’s F1 dominance in the 1990s was due more to the man behind the wheel, or the man sitting in the pit box.