Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story

[carl_w]

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]

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]

2 episodes in, it’s good so far

[Piginapoke]

Is Keano any good in it?

[Fundoreen]

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]

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]

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]

Binge watched it with the Mrs yesterday. Very good, especially where Keanu explains to Bernie E what FOTA stands for

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

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]

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.

[Fundoreen]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Enjoyed it, weird sound mis match with some inboards jarred.

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

[iandc]

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

[KobayashiMaru86]

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]

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]

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]

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