12-Nov-07: Honda Appoint Ross Brawn as Team Boss
Hello everyone, I’m Christine and this is F1 Minute for the 12th November 2007.
Honda have been in the news over the weekend, starting with Jenson Button’s admission that he is not happy. Button issued an ultimatum saying he needs to see better performance or he will head elsewhere. Selected quotes include: “The car was a complete dog, and I’m just not interested in racing like this,” and “I can’t be bothered with working my nuts off and qualifying 14th anymore. It’s making me unhappy.”
Today, Honda have announced that Ross Brawn, ex-Ferrari technical director, will be joining them as team boss on 26th November. Rumours had been circulating that Brawn would be looking for a new challenge after his championship winning partnership with Michael Schumacher came to an end last year. Brawn believes that Honda will provide that challenge and he can turn the team’s fortunes around.
Also announced today, with much less fanfare, is the news that a restructure at Ferrari sees Stefano Domenicali take over from Jean Todt as F1 boss, whilst the latter will remain in a chief executive position.
That’s all for today, please join me tomorrow for another F1 Minute.
brendan stallard on Mon, 12th Nov 2007 20:40
“is the news that a restructure at Ferrari sees Stefano Domenicali take over from Jean Todt as F1 boss”
Christine,
I’m of the view that is larger news than its reported. As said elsewhere here previously: if the Italians are going ALL Italian as before: Ferrari can look forward to many more years in the wilderness.
I no fan of Todt, but this is surely a sizeable demotion and removal for him.
brendan
Christine on Mon, 12th Nov 2007 20:43
Yes, they must have been trying to bury bad news on a day when the focus was on someone else for a change.