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It was something along the lines of: 'What an amazing year, we've all had a good night but now we should probably go home! ""So we got about two cubic metres of beer, drank about one cubic metre and put the other one in the sea container and divided it among the employees back at the factory. Heartiest Congrats to Ross, Jenson, Rubens and all at Brawn for a job well done.

Raikkonen would go to Toyota, Would anybody like to comment on my comment @34@ please feel free. When you have never really wanted anything more in your whole life and you achieved it, it's an enormous weight off your shoulders, especially when you knew the whole thing was resting in such a fragile position. I think the instruction for Jenson was win by five seconds -- get to the front and stay there -- but don't humiliate everybody by disappearing off down the road because that won't do us any favours!

But he doesn't come into the drawing office very much. Button used a single Brawn BGP 001 during the 2009 season, making the chassis designated "BGP 001-02" one of the most successful F1 chassis of all time (Rubens Barrichello drove the chassis "BGP 001-01" until it was damaged in a qualifying accident at the Singapore Grand Prix, after which he used "BGP 001-03" for the rest of the season). ""At that point I remember just thinking, 'Oh...' and he just basically said, 'They want to shut the team down,' as we stood there in the carpark of an airport hotel. ""So you are sat there with all these commitments in your own life and the company you work for is effectively going out of business.

There was a drawing there, but the drawing didn't make clear the orientation on the car. What a travesty! And I laughed, but at the end of the season, there it was. How many times did we see Vettel stuck behind a KERS car that Jensen got by in a ballsy overtake?Congratulations to Brawn and the team, it was an amazing effort with the resources and time they had. It was finished! ""Because by the time we got to Australia we knew there was probably going to be a protest over the double diffuser, so it was a case of whatever you do, don't go and win the race by a lap!

"And the gearbox was in the wrong place because the crank-centre height is different. We just had a basic white thing and we were simply trying to figure out how we make it stick out. "OK, results hadn't been brilliant, the economic situation was not great, we thought there might be some kind of change, but still, they didn't give us any advance warning or any kind of indication as to what was happening. In the F1 Social Stint...With a bit of luck Max Verstappen came second last weekend, but if Hamilton had had a flat tire just a little earlier,...The car of Racing Point has been criticised since the beginning of the F1 season. Ferrari were the same way and a lot of people just came to the conclusion that we were doing glory runs, not knowing that actually we were running every bit of metal we could on the car to slow it down! People were worried about jobs and things, but it was a sort of calm reassurance that he gave to the organisation. A couple of hours later we met Michael and he'd come out of retirement, which was an equally special feeling because Ross had managed to tempt Michael to come back. We didn't know McLaren were putting that out'. Without him in the team alongside Hamilton, I honestly believe Ferrari would have the upper hand of the two teams - with neither Massa nor Alonso likely to want to give an inch (regardless of all this 'Ferrari is different' stuff from Alonso, small body language signals in interviews tell another story!). It all just felt like a bit of a battle.

Up until that point we hadn't realised what it was, but finishing a race in first and second, which had never happened to pretty much everyone who was out there, for us it was an incredible experience and people were emotional about it. Ross was supposed to be chairing an FIA Technical Working Group [TWG] meeting on that morning, but obviously he had to cancel. So it was like a 200mph billboard with blank spaces saying 'your name here'.

Everyone got about three cans each, I think! ""So anything was better than that and it was a brave decision to go through with the management buyout. Maybe not ;-) Do I care? The place just erupted with cheering and screaming. Surely it must be a biography of Ross Brawn, right? Well done to you guys -- I know you need the sponsors and we're just glad to see you running'. Anyway, moot point. What a season, and as you say, a fairytale ending. It was really uncomfortable, and then the discussions around redundancies started...""It was around the time of a presidential election in the U.S., so we took American election posters and put people's faces on them! "It's amazing - it's all very subtle," says the Brawn insider.

Ross Brawn retained ownership of chassis BGP 001-02, which was subsequently restored to operational condition and to the championship winning livery (following a period of the car being displayed in silver Mercedes livery) and ran up the hill at the 2016 Festival of Speed at Goodwood, UK. More importantly, it left its former team staring at the precipice. When surrounded by drivers such as Piquet Jr, Kobayashi, etc, surely he's to be expected to overtake more?

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