Ross Brawn Quotes

So if you recognize in yourself that you are lazy, then having that structure, committing to it, and making sure it happens, is vital.

Winning requires also that a team maximizes its political, economic and technical capabilities. So, these are the three dimensions of strategy.

If you keep piling in the resource on the problem you have today and never allowing some resource to go into the future, then you will never have that future.

I had lost a five-year long struggle with the man who controls the sport, Bernie Ecclestone. I described these events in the light-hearted manga format of a book I called The Art of War – Five Years in Formula One.

These efforts are side-tracked when the English tabloid News of the World publishes an article and video footage that illegally breaches the privacy of Max Mosley.

This comes back to a theme we discussed last time which was that at a certain point in your career, you stop fighting the battles that you would have fought even a couple of years earlier, because you just haven’t got the energy. So the relationship with the FIA I think is clear. When we look at the relationship with the commercial rights holder – which people would identify with Bernie Ecclestone – it is more complicated. Formula One is relatively unusual in that in most sports the regulator doesn’t matter a huge amount because they might decide how big the ball is or whether you use touchline technology, or whatever, but that doesn’t really affect anyone very much or it affects everyone the same. In Formula One the rules matter enormously, and changing the rules matters as we discussed. But the other oddity about Formula One is this three-way relationship between the teams, the regulator and the commercial rights holder. You said that earlier in your career the relationship with the commercial rights holder wasn’t your responsibility because you had people like Flavio Briatore or Luca di Montezemolo doing it. But later, when it was your responsibility at Brawn and then at Mercedes, you delegated it, largely. R Yes.

although McLaren’s securing of Honda as engine partner is a great achievement that could soon make up for the loss of Mercedes.