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[Gaz]

James May is a Big Ross Brawn Fan.

[EwanM]

James May is a Big Ross Brawn Fan.

hahahahah "JAMES THINK OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP"

[darwin dali]

Its about time Norbert Haug becomes a team principle tho.

the mans a ledgend.

Agreed
He's one of the main reasons why I like McLaren better these days...

[scotty]

James May is a Big Ross Brawn Fan.

hahahahah "JAMES THINK OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP"

"SLOW DOWN JAMES, SLOW DOWN"

[vaptin]

You have to get past badoer james!

[EwanM]

You have to get past badoer james!

Isn't it true that Badoer was the Stig for a few of the Ferrari supercar tests?

[Gaz]

You have to get past badoer james!

Isn't it true that Badoer was the Stig for a few of the Ferrari supercar tests?

No that was me.

I did the 599, the Enzo and the 430

Also the FXX Schui just appeared on the day to take the helmet off.

[headless]

He probs did

[Gaz]

He probs did

yeh probs, they tried badour in the Reasonbly priced car intialy. but he had "problems"

[bud]

with Force India recently out performing Brawn GP Mercedes now wish to buy them out instead!

[headless]

with Force India recently out performing Brawn GP Mercedes now wish to buy them out instead!

Ha, that would be funny

[Gaz]

Mercedes: No plans to end McLaren deal

By Jonathan Noble Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 17:00 GMT

Mercedes-Benz has no plans to end its relationship with the McLaren Formula 1 team because of its planned buy-out of Brawn GP, but the German car manufacturer has said that its partnership with the Woking-based outfit will change.

The Stuttgart-based car maker has agreed a three-year plan to buy into the Brawn GP team, although a final contract has not yet been signed.

The deal has cast doubts about the future of the McLaren and Mercedes relationship, but Daimler boss Dieter Zetsche said that his company was not planning to walk away from the team once their exclusive partnership deal ends after 2011.

"Ending the relationship is not an option but we may have a different relationship," he told AUTOSPORT's sister website autocar.co.uk.

Zetsche also admitted that the future of their relationship would depend on where F1's costs headed over the next few years.

"We [Mercedes] want to see significantly lower budgets in F1 and the changing of regulations," said Zetsche.

The move appears to leave McLaren choosing whether it wants to become just a Mercedes-Benz customer team from 2012, or go and seek a partnership with another manufacturer.

Zetsche revealed that part of the motivation for the future tie-up with Brawn was fuelled by a row with McLaren about developing its own supercar.

"For a long period we had a lack of alignment on road cars, but we have now found a clear solution and we won't participate," he said on the same day that Mercedes-Benz unveiled its own SLS supercar.

Knew it, what with Merc bringing out the SLS Supercar and Mclaren the MP4-12c there going head to head.

Perhaps Mclaren will make there own Formula 1 V8 they already have a road going version for the MP4-12c that would be awesome if they did.

[EwanM]

Not a surprise.

[Gilles 27]

McLaren have never made their own engines have they? It would be an unusual first. The golden era of F1 engine building is over with the current regs.

[bud]

McLaren have never made their own engines have they? It would be an unusual first. The golden era of F1 engine building is over with the current regs.

Yeah the MP4-12C is using a McLaren V8TT