Tomba wrote:
I'd vote for Newey for his excellent car. As said before, it was by a considerable margin the best of the non-DDD cars and would have outclassed everyone this year.
I can agree that Brawn did a good job, but the car itself really is a Honda design which they chose after developing three different concepts. That was really a no-limit budget contrary to what Red Bull have at their disposal (although not poor, it's not in comparison to McLaren or Honda).
What do you think happened when Honda pullled out? Everyone left and completely new people came in to the team? I don't think so. Honda sold the team and the name changed. The Honda engine department left and took its engine with it, so no advantage gained there. The guys who designed the car are still part of Brawn, sadly some had to leave.
The statement "the car itself really is a Honda design" is complete tripe. It's Brawn's design, Honda build engines. Honda's money POSSIBLY made the design happen, sure, but the car was designed by the design team working at Honda who are the same design team that are working at Brawn (maybe minus a few unlucky people).
Ross Brawn is my choice for
man of the year (this is a bit sexist no?). He saved the team and he saved alot of peoples jobs and he showed us that is was so worth saving.
Driver of the year is Kimi, he had some great drives and had some unlucky race like Brazil with the flash fire, like China with the KERS failure and still kept going when others would have just parked it.
I think alot of people are really really unfair to Kimi when it comes to his motivation. People tend to mis-read him and assume lack of emotion and motivation when I think really it's more of a language barrier and a dislike for the media who we all know are mostly a bunch of drama hungry tossers.
