SPECIAL EPISODE: Ross Brawn on Brawn GPs fairy-tale 2009 title success

Published: July 10, 2019, 2 a.m.

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The history of F1 is littered with great stories and improbable comebacks, and Brawn GP\\u2019s title-winning season in 2009 is right up there with the best of them. It was late 2008 when Honda surprisingly pulled the plug on its F1 project, leaving a team hundreds strong with a bleak future. That the team not only survived but emerged with a grid-blitzing machine is the stuff of legend, and on the tenth anniversary of that success Tom Clarkson sat down with the man at the centre of the story \\u2013 current F1 motorsports chief Ross Brawn \\u2013 for the inside story on a true sporting fairy-tale\\u2026
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