Honda hires Ross Brawn as F1 team principal!!

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http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19861.html

He seemed to make some very astute calls for MS when he was at Benetton and Ferrari and comes with a big reputation.
This can only be a good thing for getting Honda further ahead in F1 (either that or he is getting paid big $$$ towards his pension fund and if it goes wrong he wont cop all of the blame (The same theory was used as a basis for Alonso maybe going to Toyota).

Too late for him to have much of an influence on the 2008 team but after that the picture might get rosier.....Mind you I had high hopes for Honda before the start of the 2007 season.

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Lets hope Honda back on top form soon....can't wait to see button on podium again...

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Lets hope Honda back on top form soon....can't wait to see button on podium again...

it has been a while...
it's good to see that Honda is still trying to be competitive on the F1 stage.

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Lets hope Honda back on top form soon....can't wait to see button on podium again...

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Alonso and Honda !!!!!!??????1111111
There have been many rumours today about Fernando Alonso meeting up with Honda and supposedly having a seat fitting. These are not true but that does not mean that the Spaniard has not been talking to Honda. The big question is whether Honda is talking back. The bottom line is that a double World Champion in his prime is a rare thing to find on the F1 driver market and that means that probably all the teams have been talking to Alonso. It would be foolish not to.

But who knows where he will end up?

Clearly there is something holding back a decision about the future and one must assume that this is talk involving various teams rather than a straight deal with Renault which has been much discussed. The big question is which teams are involved. Red Bull Racing has embarrassed itself by being quite unable to get the story straight with some saying there are no talks and others saying there are talks. Toyota seems to have removed itself from the equation by signing Timo Glock but is that deal as solid as it seems? Honda says that talk of Alonso at Honda is "pure speculation" but that is not a denial. However there have been straight denials of meetings and seat fittings.

And in the meanwhile BMW and Williams have made no noises at all about Fernando. Both have drivers under contract and seem to be satisfied with that.