Another Piece Of The Jigsaw
Posted by chet
Ross Brawn will step down from his post as technical director at Ferrari next year, this week's Autosport magazine reveals.
The 51-year-old will take a sabbatical in 2007, with no decision currently made about his long-term future with the team.
The sabbatical will end a run of ten seasons for the Briton with Ferrari, and he has worked with Michael Schumacher in all but one season for the past 15 years.
The two began working together in 1991, when Schumacher joined the Benetton team mid-season.
All of Schumacher's seven world championship titles were captured with Brawn at the helm of the technical department, and the two are known to have a close relationship.
Ferrari would not confirm or deny Brawn's situation, a team spokesman telling autosport.com today: "This is one of the various speculations regarding the future of our team.
"We can only repeat once again that the structure of the team will be announced after the end of the season."
However, sources have told Autosport it is "100 percent certain" that Brawn will take a break from F1 at the end of the year.
Brawn's departure could be seen as a hint that Schumacher too has decided to retire. However, Autosport reports that Schumacher is in fact expected to stay on with Ferrari for one more season, partnering Kimi Raikkonen in what will possibly become the strongest driver line-up since Ayrton Senna teamed up with Alain Prost in McLaren, nearly twenty years ago.
Brawn himself made it clear that his future with Ferrari does not depend on Schumacher staying on. In an interview with Autosport earlier this season, he said: "I have a lot of very good friends and colleagues at Ferrari and Michael is one of them and obviously I'll be disappointed when the day comes that he doesn't want to carry on. And an era will pass. But Ferrari is much bigger than that.
"Yes, there are still some formal discussions to take place [between Brawn and the team] and they'll happen during the summer. Anyone who is in a responsible position, particularly for a team that they love, like Ferrari, has always got to be thinking about how to groom and develop their successors.
"It's only correct that we have an evolution for the future, be it next year, be it two years' time, be it three years or whatever. We will all stop one day and it is important that we have a proper plan for the future."
Edit - So, I wonder about the rest, you think this will effect Micheal. Even with him gone Ferrari is still the best and will be for a while I mean, Brawn, Todt and the rest (
) have left a nice legacy for Ferrari to build on.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2006 10:49PM by chet.
The 51-year-old will take a sabbatical in 2007, with no decision currently made about his long-term future with the team.
The sabbatical will end a run of ten seasons for the Briton with Ferrari, and he has worked with Michael Schumacher in all but one season for the past 15 years.
The two began working together in 1991, when Schumacher joined the Benetton team mid-season.
All of Schumacher's seven world championship titles were captured with Brawn at the helm of the technical department, and the two are known to have a close relationship.
Ferrari would not confirm or deny Brawn's situation, a team spokesman telling autosport.com today: "This is one of the various speculations regarding the future of our team.
"We can only repeat once again that the structure of the team will be announced after the end of the season."
However, sources have told Autosport it is "100 percent certain" that Brawn will take a break from F1 at the end of the year.
Brawn's departure could be seen as a hint that Schumacher too has decided to retire. However, Autosport reports that Schumacher is in fact expected to stay on with Ferrari for one more season, partnering Kimi Raikkonen in what will possibly become the strongest driver line-up since Ayrton Senna teamed up with Alain Prost in McLaren, nearly twenty years ago.
Brawn himself made it clear that his future with Ferrari does not depend on Schumacher staying on. In an interview with Autosport earlier this season, he said: "I have a lot of very good friends and colleagues at Ferrari and Michael is one of them and obviously I'll be disappointed when the day comes that he doesn't want to carry on. And an era will pass. But Ferrari is much bigger than that.
"Yes, there are still some formal discussions to take place [between Brawn and the team] and they'll happen during the summer. Anyone who is in a responsible position, particularly for a team that they love, like Ferrari, has always got to be thinking about how to groom and develop their successors.
"It's only correct that we have an evolution for the future, be it next year, be it two years' time, be it three years or whatever. We will all stop one day and it is important that we have a proper plan for the future."
Edit - So, I wonder about the rest, you think this will effect Micheal. Even with him gone Ferrari is still the best and will be for a while I mean, Brawn, Todt and the rest (
) have left a nice legacy for Ferrari to build on."Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2006 10:49PM by chet.
Oh blimey... is it me or is F1 losing all of the people that make it interesting? Or am I looking back with rose-tinted glasses?
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lol, best line up since Senna and Prost, they said that for Kimi and JPM, and look what happened.
i didn't expect Brawn to take a sabbatical though, i thought he would just leave.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
i didn't expect Brawn to take a sabbatical though, i thought he would just leave.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
Maybe he will do a Mika.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Schumi will stay for next season regardless of winning this year, if he feels his car will make him champion of 2007.
And I expect Ross to get fatter now, being at home all the time with all that money for cupcakes
And I expect Ross to get fatter now, being at home all the time with all that money for cupcakes
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sometimes times are over, I think we are at the beginning of a new era in the f1, we had now the ferrari dominance and i think they gonna pull back slightly into the midfield, and i think to the williams team wont be for 10 years in the f1 imho
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> Oh blimey... is it me or is F1 losing all of the people that make it
> interesting? Or am I looking back with rose-tinted glasses?
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sometimes times are over, I think we are at the beginning of a new era in the f1, we had now the ferrari dominance and i think they gonna pull back slightly into the midfield, and i think to the williams team wont be for 10 years in the f1 imho
They will.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Ferrari will only release any news about his 2007 team at Monza, so we have to wait till this race to know for sure that Ross Brawn is leaving the team or not
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"I'm an artist, the track is my canvas, and the car is my brush."
Maybe this is why Renault decided to stick around after all lol. 
With McLaren and Ferrari facing turmoil up ahead, perhaps Renault have half a chance. A shame they're likely to stick two pretty average drivers in the car.
Honda to step up next year, anyone?
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With McLaren and Ferrari facing turmoil up ahead, perhaps Renault have half a chance. A shame they're likely to stick two pretty average drivers in the car.Honda to step up next year, anyone?
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