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Tuesday, 21 April 2009
James Allen interviews Ross BrawnThe interview can be found over here on James's Blog
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/index.htmI have taken the excerpt which you will all read and posted it below:What happened to your pace in the second part of qualifying?“We had a bit of a problem with some settings on the car, it’s not quite right in some parts of the track. We have a problem with the suspension topping out and as the grip has improved it’s been getting worse because we haven’t got enough rear suspension travel. It’s a legacy of fitting the Mercedes Benz engine because we had to lift the gearbox up to fit the engine and it’s causing a few problems.“So when we went out on low fuel with new tyres in the middle part of qualifying, we didn’t get the temperature in the tyres. It wasn’t particularly critical but I think we got a bit confused in where we really were because Red Bull were really quick and we weren’t.”Did you underestimate the likely speed of the Red Bulls in Q3?“No our view is that we can run a good race on a two stop strategy, a three stop has higher risks, there was no point in doing a three stop strategy in our position. The problem will come as we get caught up at the start, there’s no doubt some risks. Three stops is a little quicker than two, but you need a clean race, no safety cars at the wrong time. That’s why we were a little more conservative.”So how do you feel your tactics will work out in the race?“If you take fuel into consideration we still look the quickest, but the difficulty will be getting in the right place at the right time. I imagine that the light fuelled teams will start on the option [soft tyre] and the last 6 or 7 laps of that will be interesting to see what happens.How tough is it to manage the soft tyre here?“There is an issue to get it up to temperature and get it working, but once you do the tyre is very stressed here, there are some corners here that give the tyre a really hard time, so it seems to be a compund which is hard to warm up and then is not durable. The other one takes a couple of laps to get warm then its fine, really durable.”What have Honda said about your success this season?“They have been very complementary. I have had some really nice letters from Fukui-san since the start of the season. They are frustrated they can’t be part of it.”
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Brawn GP - Shanghai, China RaceHi BGP fans another race another safety car issue. It seems to me FOM's race schedule adjustment is playing havoc with the weather situation. Anyway onwards from that discussion, I will provide the usual full blown race analysis later but I would just like to say congratulations to Jenson, Rubens and the team for another great performance. With the issues under safety car and the weather I see the finishing positions we got as a best performance we could achieve without Vettel and Webber having incidents. Strategy went out the window as gaps couldn't be opened in the field during pit windows so to take 3rd and 4th I think we should be pleased and it fortifies our position up top. Kudos to Red Bull Racing for their 1-2 and a round of applause to Sebastian Vettel for his 1st race win for RBR. I will follow up later with the press conference details.