Tuesday 28 April 2009

Brawn F1 team bring on improvements for Barcelona

The Brawn team is confident that it has the resources to stay ahead in the development race as the likes of McLaren and Ferrari try to fight back.
Although the Brawn GP BGP001 was designed and developed with the full might of Honda behind it, the team - now owned by Ross Brawn - has become much smaller since it was sold off by the Japanese manufacturer.
Jenson Button has been concerned that the pack has rapidly caught Brawn up after its dominant start to 2009, but the team's chief executive Nick Fry said Brawn could withstand whatever the established big guns threw at it.
"I think our team has got all the resources,” Fry told the Times newspaper.We have got a reasonable upgrade package for Barcelona."Whether it will be as big as some others, we don't know."Do we have the resources to develop for the rest of the year?""Yes, we do.”
Ross Brawn admitted that there had been a pause in the arrival of new parts due to the winter of uncertainty that the team endured after Honda pulled the plug, but said development had now been ramped up again.
"From the time that Honda announced they were stopping at the end of November, the budget was limited, the developments weren't coming,” he said."But they are coming now, so we can get the ball rolling again in terms of improving the car.”

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