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Ross James Brawn OBE (born 23 November 1954) is a British Formula One managing director, motor sports and technical director. [1] He is a former motorsport engineer and Formula One team principal, and has worked for a number of Formula One teams. Teams with Brawn in an essential role have won eight constructors' championships and eight drivers ...
Rubens Barrichello. The Brawn BGP 001 (originally known as the Honda RA109) is a Formula One world championship winning racing car, the design of which was started by Honda Racing, and completed and then built by the team after it was renamed to Brawn GP. It was the first and only Formula One car constructed by the Brawn GP team, and was used ...
Brawn GP. Brawn GP was a Formula One constructor which competed in the 2009 Formula One World Championship, with drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. The team was formed in 2009 by a management buyout led by Ross Brawn of the Honda Racing F1 Team, after Honda announced their withdrawal from the sport in December 2008 due to the global ...
The series also features Ross Brawn, owner and team principal of the Brawn GP team, and his rival team boss Christian Horner, the long-serving team principal of Red Bull Racing.
Jaguar XJR-14. Cosworth HB 3500 cc V8. Naturally aspirated mid-mounted. The Jaguar XJR-14 is a sports-prototype racing car introduced for the 1991 World Sportscar Championship season. It was designed by Ross Brawn and John Piper, and was built and run by Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR), on behalf of Jaguar Cars.
The 2009 Australian Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 ING Australian Grand Prix) [3] was a Formula One motor race held on 29 March 2009 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia. It was the first race of the 2009 Formula One World Championship. The 58-lap race was won by Jenson Button for the Brawn GP team after starting ...
Brawn used engines from Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines, and despite running on a low budget, Jenson Button won six of the first seven races and ultimately the 2009 Drivers' Championship, while Brawn won the Constructors' Championship. It was the first time in the sport's sixty-year history that a team won both titles in its maiden season.
Jenson Button, the 2009 World Champion, drove for Brawn GP. Sebastian Vettel, finished runner-up behind Button by eleven points, in his first year with Red Bull. Rubens Barrichello (pictured in 2010), finished third in the championship. The 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 63rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing.