Does Brawn's arrival turn Honda into a '08 challenger?

[AlexRWD]

Hut49 said:

hostile17 said:

A friend just texted me his take on what Brawn's first words to the Honda workforce will be: "Stop f***ing about."

Probably shortly to be followed by "Stop f***ing me about" to Honda's management in Japan

and hopefully followed by "F**k off Fry, you lunatic grinning moron"

[stuttgartmetal]

Ross Brawn said:

Jean, of course you know Rubens and Michael.

Imagine how fat his wallet is !

Dr Brawn is a Physicist I believe.

[baz1985]

No chance, someone will re-calibrate the wind tunnels again!

[GavinPearson]

I think that Brawn is not going to have a tangible impact until 09 at the earliest.

He needs a budget to find top calibre people to enable the team to deliver, then he needs the time to allow them to do so.

He also needs top drivers. Rubens is a very good, experienced No 2 but Button is certainly not a No 1.

[rubystone]

GavinPearson said:

He also needs top drivers. Rubens is a very good, experienced No 2 but Button is certainly not a No 1.

I'm not sure that this is true. Button is very much the number 1 at Honda, but in true Japanese corporate style, this is not as evident as it might be at another team.

Although I also think that to most people a "number 1" is characterised by Michael Schumacher and I am not sure we'll ever see any driver exerting the degree of control that he did.

[bigburd]

One of the things that I admire of Brawn is his ability to switch Race Strategies at short notice and it is the times he has done this that has often turned a P4 or P5 into a win. Living locally I hope to see Honda on the podium again at some point next season. But like people say will it be dig deep and leave it to me...maybe Honda can afford to through the £$£$£ at it.

[johnph]

2008 at Honda will be like 1996 at Ferrari, they will be in transition, if all goes well thye chould be challenging at the front come 2009.