Brawn BGP001 voted Car of Year at Autosport Awards
The Brawn GP BGP001 has been voted as the Racing Car of the Year at the AUTOSPORT Awards.
The super-swift white and day-glo yellow machine, which powered Jenson Button to this season's world championship, beat off the challenge put to it by Red Bull Racing's RB5.
The super-swift white and day-glo yellow machine, which powered Jenson Button to this season's world championship, beat off the challenge put to it by Red Bull Racing's RB5.
The award was presented to Brawn design team members John Owen and Russell Cooley by 1996 world champion Damon Hill.
"It was our intention to be successful during 2009, and that is what made us determined over the winter," said Owen.
"It was a wonderful distraction – it quite easy in a way to focus on our job, because we never stopped to wonder what might happen if we didn't survive. We trusted in Ross [Brawn] and Nick [Fry] to save the team."