Ross Brawn to leave Mercedes

**bjohnsonsmith** · 29 Oct 2013, 11:31 (Ref:3324673)

Ross Brawn to leave Mercedes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24725406

davec · 29 Oct 2013, 11:31 (Ref:3324674)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24725406

Ross leaves Mercedes at the end of the season.

any guess where he will go, article said not McLaren or Honda!

Peat · 29 Oct 2013, 11:37 (Ref:3324676)

Team Willy

**bjohnsonsmith** · 29 Oct 2013, 11:37 (Ref:3324678)

We have two threads, on the same topic.

**garcon** · 29 Oct 2013, 11:38 (Ref:3324679)

We have one now.

Peat · 29 Oct 2013, 11:38 (Ref:3324681)

Yours won. More concise title.

davec · 29 Oct 2013, 11:39 (Ref:3324683)

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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

We have two threads, on the same topic.

Yeah we both posted at the identical minute! Great minds and all that!

**bjohnsonsmith** · 29 Oct 2013, 11:40 (Ref:3324685)

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Yeah we both posted at the identical minute! Great minds and all that!

Cool,

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davec · 29 Oct 2013, 11:40 (Ref:3324686)

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Originally Posted by Peat

Yours won. More concise title.

More concise title yes, but mine did have a follow up question, do I get points for that?

JacobP · 29 Oct 2013, 11:43 (Ref:3324688)

For an average fan, this seems really bizarre. Why leave Mercedes when all the stars have finally aligned, and this team is probably on the verge of accomplishing something? Mercedes now has a great organization, brilliant drivers, money, and most importantly the confidence to win a championship in 2014. I am surprised.

Peat · 29 Oct 2013, 11:45 (Ref:3324691)

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More concise title yes, but mine did have a follow up question, do I get points for that?

It surely does. The fact i answered it is sufficient redemption.

Peat · 29 Oct 2013, 11:48 (Ref:3324693)

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Originally Posted by JacobP

For an average fan, this seems really bizarre. Why leave Mercedes when all the stars have finally aligned, and this team is probably on the verge of accomplishing something? Mercedes now has a great organization, brilliant drivers, money, and most importantly the confidence to win a championship in 2014. I am surprised.

He effectively recruited himself out a job. Whether that was by his design or his employer's i don't know but i guess we'll find out soon enough.

He was/is rather surplus to requirements now at Merc considering all the management there.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 29 Oct 2013, 11:50 (Ref:3324694)

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Originally Posted by JacobP

For an average fan, this seems really bizarre. Why leave Mercedes when all the stars have finally aligned, and this team is probably on the verge of accomplishing something? Mercedes now has a great organization, brilliant drivers, money, and most importantly the confidence to win a championship in 2014. I am surprised.

They may have the confidence to win next year but there's the new engine plus this business with Pirelli is still very much up in the air. Maybe Ross Brawn wants to take a step back and see how the dust settles?

F1Pete · 29 Oct 2013, 11:56 (Ref:3324698)

I read somewhere a long time ago that he was rumoured to go to Williams.

m355y · 29 Oct 2013, 11:58 (Ref:3324702)

End of an era but if you believe what you read it's been on the cards for months. He's kind of made himself redundant, it seems.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 29 Oct 2013, 12:04 (Ref:3324706)

This article from the BBC, back in Feb this year, sheds some light on why Ross Brawn were to leave but there's nothing on where he might go but then it was early days in Feb and still the off season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/21571627

BSchneiderFan · 29 Oct 2013, 12:26 (Ref:3324713)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if RB is going to Williams, where would he fit in alongside Sir Frank, Claire and Pat Symonds? What would his role be?

**garcon** · 29 Oct 2013, 12:51 (Ref:3324717)

I can't see him going to Williams, for that very reason.

Here's a thought. If I were Sir Ron of Dennis, I'd bury old rivalries, ditch Whitmarsh and make Brawn an offer he can't refuse - absolute control of the F1 operation.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 29 Oct 2013, 13:02 (Ref:3324720)

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Originally Posted by garcon

I can't see him going to Williams, for that very reason.

Here's a thought. If I were Sir Ron of Dennis, I'd bury old rivalries, ditch Whitmarsh and make Brawn an offer he can't refuse - absolute control of the F1 operation.

Also Maldonado's about to go, along with all that PDVSA money. Going to Williams would be a backward step.

According to the BBC article, "He has been linked with roles running Honda's new F1 programme when the Japanese manufacturer returns to the sport in 2015 as engine partner to McLaren."

**garcon** · 29 Oct 2013, 13:03 (Ref:3324722)

Although the same article says a move to Honda is viewed as unlikely by some insiders, after a less than entirely happy relationship in 2007-8.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 29 Oct 2013, 13:11 (Ref:3324724)

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Originally Posted by garcon

Although the same article says a move to Honda is viewed as unlikely by some insiders, after a less than entirely happy relationship in 2007-8.

There is that, so he'll have to do a bit of hatchet burying with Honda as well as Ron Dennis, if he does go to McLaren.

**garcon** · 29 Oct 2013, 13:12 (Ref:3324725)

Indeed.

I'm not sure I can see him going to a supplier. He's a winner, he feeds on the direct team involvement. (And bananas).

grantp · 29 Oct 2013, 13:13 (Ref:3324726)

Hmm.

Spend a year setting up 'something', maybe not in F1, and then Adrian Newey joins him in whatever it is?

Just a thought.

MGDavid · 29 Oct 2013, 14:19 (Ref:3324751)

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Originally Posted by grantp

Hmm.

Spend a year setting up 'something', maybe not in F1, and then Adrian Newey joins him in whatever it is?

Just a thought.

does Ross know about boats then?

rdjones · 29 Oct 2013, 14:34 (Ref:3324755)

IIRC didn't Ross Brawn start his career in F1 at Williams alongside Patrick Head. So he could go back to finish his career there.

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