Wurz reveals Honda’s three way approach

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After the car won three-quarters of every race so far under the 2009 regulations, Alex Wurz has revealed the secret of the Brawn BGP 001.

At times last year, the team's predecessor Honda had five wind tunnels at its disposal, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, as well as a half-billion euro budget.

"The car was taken in three different directions in the wind tunnel," test driver Wurz told News. "Two directions were found to be wrong, so the team could just switch."

Amid the shock of the global economic situation, Honda then pulled out and the Brackley team was rescued by a management buyout headed by Ross Brawn.

"The Brawn is probably the most expensive car with the lowest operating budget ever," the Austrian admitted.

Wurz meanwhile gives Sebastian Vettel ‘ten out of ten’ for dominating last time out at Silverstone, but doubts Red Bull will have it so easily for the remainder of the season.

"I would say that Brawn and Red Bull are at eye-level, and success from now on will depend on the circuits."

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bit early for a potato crop
From Burt, on Tue 30 Jun 10:27AM
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uncrudily.
From Donald D, on Tue 30 Jun 8:33AM
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I see Burt has finally taken my advice and looked up how to spell potato
From Donald D, on Tue 30 Jun 8:31AM
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you want to put a cap on that potato
From Burt, on Tue 30 Jun 2:34AM
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potato head is full of s h i t e
From Burt, on Tue 30 Jun 2:33AM
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eseptiyanto... what are you talking about, I realise that English may not be your first language but ....jeeezzzz man... and make use of 'Google spoil chukkor'!
From Peter c, on Mon 29 Jun 8:41PM
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Well I believe that to win a championship one must to sacrifice some selfishnes, time, energy, comfortness, money and adversity so everybody can accord to each other. Thats the reciepe of a champion, the BrawnGp this year has shown much of the effort they done since day 1 as Honda F1 team so BrawnGp was abide from the aspiration of the former team. At the beginning I was quiet uncrudily with their result at Australia but since then they perform such great result despite of driver abilty ( I still comsidered Jenson win were simply good engineering not driver ability ) It's all because all their accordance, resiliency and resurgency so they could perform like this.
From Iceman jr, on Mon 29 Jun 6:54PM
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What budget caps?
From Donald D, on Mon 29 Jun 12:07PM
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I wouldn't say it was 'Engineering' overkill, almost every engineer would you could speak to would love to be able to work in that way. It may not be financially economical, but the oppertunities available in exploring quite radical concepts pay dividends. This is the way all r & d would be done if budgets were unlimited. We wont see this again with the budget caps.
From redsnake77, on Mon 29 Jun 11:42AM
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Nothing like engineering overkill to get the job done for that kind of money it is surprising Honda did not take the initiative and put a man on the moon :-)
From art_tidesco, on Mon 29 Jun 11:32AM
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