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Brawn thought their sums must be wrong in 2009

Andrew Shovlin thought Brawn “must have got our sums wrong” when it became apparent they were so far clear of their rivals at the start of 2009. Major regulation changes came in that year and Ross Brawn’s team, which he bought from Honda, went on to win both the Drivers’, through Jenson Button, and Constructors’ World Championships in their one season before morphing into Mercedes. Shovlin, now Mercedes’ trackside engineering director, was Button’s race engineer at Brawn and helped the British driver to win six of the first seven races and finish third in the other, going a long way towards wrapping up the individual title even before the halfway mark of the campaign. The...
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