Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story

Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story

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carl_w

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9,584 posts

266 months

Wednesday 15th November 2023
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Streaming now on Disney+. Four eps, hosted by Keanu Reeves. I've watched ep. 1 and it's pretty good although di Montezemolo is still a bit salty about the whole thing.

LM240

4,887 posts

226 months

Wednesday 15th November 2023
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Enjoying it. Nice looking back on that time.

Warmed to K.Reeves presenting style.

Loved urging them on that season. Such a simple but effective branding. Amazing success story.

(Wish Ross Brawn would come back to Ferrari!)

Lot of respect for Di Montezemolo, think he is happily playing the panto villain for this or at least accidentally coming across as that.

mk1coopers

1,302 posts

160 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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2 episodes in, it’s good so far smile

Piginapoke

5,088 posts

193 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Is Keano any good in it?

Fundoreen

4,180 posts

91 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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No doubt an easier pill to swallow for honda now that they are beating everyone by miles, and brawn doesnt exist. Plus mercedes are struggling.

Lynchie999

3,476 posts

161 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Fundoreen said:
No doubt an easier pill to swallow for honda now that they are beating everyone by miles, and brawn doesnt exist. Plus mercedes are struggling.
... don't you mean Red Bull Powertrains ?

edit - watch Ep1 and really enjoyed it, got all the interviews with a range of people... I have a mk1 BrawnGP cap somewhere...

Otispunkmeyer

13,077 posts

163 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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LM240 said:
Enjoying it. Nice looking back on that time.

Warmed to K.Reeves presenting style.

Loved urging them on that season. Such a simple but effective branding. Amazing success story.

(Wish Ross Brawn would come back to Ferrari!)

Lot of respect for Di Montezemolo, think he is happily playing the panto villain for this or at least accidentally coming across as that.
Yeah, but he mentions several times how it "came from nowhere"... he surely realises they basically spent the whole of 2008 working on that concept? The only out of nowhere bit was bolting a different engine to the back and having it work so well!

gmaz

4,645 posts

218 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Binge watched it with the Mrs yesterday. Very good, especially where Keanu explains to Bernie E what FOTA stands for smile

Dynion Araf Uchaf

4,699 posts

231 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Otispunkmeyer said:
Yeah, but he mentions several times how it "came from nowhere"... he surely realises they basically spent the whole of 2008 working on that concept? The only out of nowhere bit was bolting a different engine to the back and having it work so well!
the thing I liked most in episode one, was discovering that it was a young Japanese designer that came up with the double diffuser concept. Not Ross Brawn.

Wh00sher

1,660 posts

226 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Watched it all last night. Very much enjoyed it..

Keanu succeeded in adding gravitas to every voiceover, regardless of whether it needed it or not. biggrin

Fundoreen

4,180 posts

91 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Lynchie999 said:
Fundoreen said:
No doubt an easier pill to swallow for honda now that they are beating everyone by miles, and brawn doesnt exist. Plus mercedes are struggling.
... don't you mean Red Bull Powertrains ?

edit - watch Ep1 and really enjoyed it, got all the interviews with a range of people... I have a mk1 BrawnGP cap somewhere...
Its honda that make the engine and their people manage it. I think red bull is working on the next engine.


GlobalRacer

335 posts

21 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Otispunkmeyer said:
Yeah, but he mentions several times how it "came from nowhere"... he surely realises they basically spent the whole of 2008 working on that concept? The only out of nowhere bit was bolting a different engine to the back and having it work so well!
Don't take it so literally. Coming from nowhere doesn't mean that nothing had been done beforehand. It's just an expression to say that it was unexpected. After all how many people, even with the knowledge of Honda spending 2008 developing the car, would have said it would do what it did in 2009? The bets didn't start being placed until after it's first test.

Also, lets not forget, that the "double diffuser" was a Toyota concept and they had it as well as Williams plus, of course, Brawn had to make a lot of compromises to the car to fit the Mercedes engine.

Dashnine

1,500 posts

58 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Piginapoke said:
Is Keano any good in it?
I thought he was OK, had notes but seemed to know the subject well enough and maybe is a fan.

The bits that amused me were the fuel guy, ie a plumber coming back for the weekends after the first disaster out pit stops and the water logged steering wheel which meant the cars wasn’t able to restart the race had it been restarted after the monsoon Red flag in Malaysia!

I really enjoyed it, learnt new things that I wondered about at the time, perhaps a bit too much on the FIA / FOTA ‘war’, and had hoped they’d have got Button in the car as was he did a couple of years ago as I did wonder if that was done for this documentary, but apparently not.

Edited by Dashnine on Thursday 16th November 15:46

Teatowell

1,414 posts

191 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Enjoying it so far. Quite a few snippets which were new to me. One of my favourite years of F1. Not least because of the 100-1 bet I had on Button.

l354uge

2,969 posts

129 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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Enjoyed it, weird sound mis match with some inboards jarred.

Bernie is still a little bag of st isn't he

iandc

3,788 posts

214 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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Watched episode 1 last night. Really enjoyed it and a very pleasant watch (unlike F1 today!!).
Agree with the comment above re Bernie!

KobayashiMaru86

1,343 posts

218 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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2 eps in and enjoying it so far. Reminded me that Ferrari are a bunch of whinging losers and despite what people day about Liberty, it's in a far better place without those rats Ecclestone and Mosley.

carl_w

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9,584 posts

266 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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iandc said:
Agree with the comment above re Bernie!
Except I reckon he was right when he said they had enough money to build one good car.

Teatowell

1,414 posts

191 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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carl_w said:
Except I reckon he was right when he said they had enough money to build one good car.
Do you think they switched that to Ruben’s to hedge their bets once they’d seen Button lose his head then? Or at that time they had the money to build two cars then?

carl_w

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266 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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Teatowell said:
Do you think they switched that to Ruben’s to hedge their bets once they’d seen Button lose his head then? Or at that time they had the money to build two cars then?
More money came in during the season