What Brawn GP Never Revealed About Their F1 Miracle: Ex-CEO Nick Fry (E420)

Ross and I met our Japanese boss on the verge of of tears. And I don't think that anyone really understands the Braun story until this conversation. Honda's confirmed they're pulling out of Formula One. So Melbourne, 2009, almost no testing, turning up with an engine that you didn't even have just a few weeks. before, cobble together enough stuff to get the cars out on the track.

You finished first and second. There were endless areas where the thing could have gone off the rails. Here comes Jensen Button, the 2009 world champion. The very Formula One team you bought for a pound, then sold, was recently valued at $6 billion. Yep.

Is there any part of you that now looks and thinks, I wish I'd kept hold of that team. Let's go then to the moment that you had to lead in a way you'd never led before. I know this is a particularly interesting point for you when we looked at Nick's story. Yeah, the 28th of November 2008 at the Renaissance hotel just outside of Heathrow. Yep.

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