The F1 Team That Was Sold for £1…

In December 2008, Honda pulled out of Formula One and around 700 people at Brackley didn't know if they'd still have jobs. Three months later the team was handed to its own managers for a symbolic £1, along with a reported ~$100m from Honda. It arrived in Melbourne with a white car that had almost no sponsors and a loophole under the floor. By October it was world champion, and a month after that it was sold to Mercedes. Chapters: 0:00 Cold Open 0:35 The Most Expensive Way to Lose 2:02 Sold for a Pound 4:57 The White Rocket 8:35 The Squeeze 10:08 Fourteenth 11:16 Epilogue: Who Got the Team Figures marked "reportedly" in the video come from press reports and were never officially confirmed. #F1 #BrawnGP #F1History #JensonButton #RossBrawn Narration is AI-generated. Research sources include the Formula 1 Wiki (https://f1.fandom.com), text licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... Contributors: https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Li... Based in part on "Brawn GP", Formula 1 Wiki, https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/Brawn_GP (CC BY-SA 3.0), and "2009 Brawn Season", https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/2009_Brawn... (CC BY-SA 3.0). This channel is not affiliated with Formula 1, the FIA, Formula One Management or Fandom. "Formula 1" and "F1" are trademarks of Formula One Licensing B.V.