Brawn GP
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| Full name | Brawn GP Formula One Team |
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| Base | Brackley, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom |
| Founder(s) | Ross Brawn |
| Noted staff |
Ross Brawn Nick Fry Loïc Bigois Jörg Zander |
| Noted drivers |
 Jenson Button Rubens Barrichello
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| Previous name | Honda Racing F1 Team |
| Next name | Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 2009 Australian Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 17 |
| Engines | Mercedes |
| Constructors' Championships |
1 (2009) |
| Drivers' Championships |
1 (2009) |
| Race victories | 8 |
| Podiums | 15 |
| Points | 172 |
| Pole positions | 5 |
| Fastest laps | 4 |
| Final entry | 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |
Brawn GP Formula One Team, the trading name of Brawn GP Limited, was a Formula One world championship-winning motor racing team and constructor, created by a management buyout of Honda Racing F1 Team, but using a Mercedes engine. It only competed in the 2009 Formula One World Championship, with drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. The team clinched that year's Constructors' Championship, and Button took the drivers' title. For 2010, the team again changed identity, becoming Mercedes GP.
On its racing debut, the season-opening 2009 Australian Grand Prix, the team took pole position and 2nd place in qualifying and went on to finish first and second in the race. Button won six of the first seven races of the season and on 18 October at the Brazilian Grand Prix, he secured the 2009 Drivers' Championship and the team won the Constructors' Championship. Barrichello won twice and finished third in the Drivers' Championship. The team won eight of the season's seventeen races, and by winning both titles in its only year of competition became the first to achieve a 100% championship success rate.
On 16 November 2009 it was confirmed that the team's engine supplier, Mercedes-Benz, in partnership with Aabar Investments had purchased a 75.1% stake in Brawn GP (Mercedes: 45.1%; Aabar: 30%), which was renamed Mercedes GP for the 2010 season.
Brawn GP had its origins in the Tyrrell Racing Organisation, a motorsport team founded by Ken Tyrrell in 1958 which entered cars in various single-seater championships. After entering Formula One in 1968, the Tyrrell team won the Constructors' Championship and three Drivers' Championships during the 1970s with Jackie Stewart. The team kept racing in F1 until 1998, when declining results led to Tyrrell selling the team to British American Tobacco. While BAT bought the Formula One entry, they set up the British American Racing team in a new factory in Brackley. BAR competed for six years, with a high point of finishing second in the championship in 2004. Increasing restrictions on tobacco advertisement meant Honda, BAR's engine partner, bought full control of the team at the end of 2005, and the team would be renamed Honda Racing F1.
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