Ross Brawn buys £8M Ferrari
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I have reliable information that Ross Brawn has just bought a Ferrari 250GT SWB Competition for £8 million, making the deal more valuable than the 250GT SWB Comp sold at the RM auction in Arizona back in January for $8.14 million, or £5.4 million. Just goes to show that top formula one personnel are paid more than we are lead to believe. Still, investing in collectable classic is much better than putting the money in the bank. So much for cost cutting in the F1 fraternity, hey?
edar said:
I have reliable information that Ross Brawn has just bought a Ferrari 250GT SWB Competition for £8 million, making the deal more valuable than the 250GT SWB Comp sold at the RM auction in Arizona back in January for $8.14 million, or £5.4 million. Just goes to show that top formula one personnel are paid more than we are lead to believe. Still, investing in collectable classic is much better than putting the money in the bank. So much for cost cutting in the F1 fraternity, hey?
This has diddily-squat to do with costs in F1 and cost cutting. This is/could well be his own money, amassed over the years and a profitable - if brave - business venture in the form of Brawn F1.Good luck to him
The 1960 Stirling Moss model I'm guessing, s/n 2119GT
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273381/Cl...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273381/Cl...
The OP probably thinks it's a piece of cake running an F1 team. have a go yourself and see how "easy" it is...camshafted said:
The 1960 Stirling Moss model I'm guessing, s/n 2119GT
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273381/Cl...
Yep, that's the one.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273381/Cl...
Honda paid Brawn to take over the team in 2009 because it would have cost them dearly to make over 200 staff redundant. Brawn also had to lend the team a few million in March of that year.
Brawn did this knowing that his car had brilliantly exploited the F1 aerodynamics.
His faith was rewarded with a Brawn GP team 2009 annual profit of around 100 million and the F1 drivers and constructors championships.
He then sold the team to Mercedes for how much?!
Nobody else has ever achieved anything quite like this in F1 and it unlikely that we will ever see it happen again.
Quite why anyone thinks they have the right to comment on what the guy spends his money on is completely beyond me.
Brawn did this knowing that his car had brilliantly exploited the F1 aerodynamics.
His faith was rewarded with a Brawn GP team 2009 annual profit of around 100 million and the F1 drivers and constructors championships.
He then sold the team to Mercedes for how much?!
Nobody else has ever achieved anything quite like this in F1 and it unlikely that we will ever see it happen again.
Quite why anyone thinks they have the right to comment on what the guy spends his money on is completely beyond me.
edar said:
I have reliable information that Ross Brawn has just bought a Ferrari 250GT SWB Competition for £8 million, making the deal more valuable than the 250GT SWB Comp sold at the RM auction in Arizona back in January for $8.14 million, or £5.4 million. Just goes to show that top formula one personnel are paid more than we are lead to believe. Still, investing in collectable classic is much better than putting the money in the bank. So much for cost cutting in the F1 fraternity, hey?
Disgusting sense of entitlement demonstrated by Brawn akin to the dole scroungers typically featured in the Daily Mail. He probably claims DLA and has the Ferrari on a motability scheme. 
I think many people in F1 have performance related bonuses, his time at Ferrari was probably a good earner. Certain aerodynamic experts are paid more than some of the drivers, too (allegedly).
You clearly haven't read the Mosque thread.
Cupramax said:
edar said:
Just goes to show that top formula one personnel are paid more than we are lead to believe.
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