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Ross Brawn believes the 'B-team' model should stay

Ross Brawn believes the 'B-team' model should stay

09-04-2019 19:11
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Ross Brawn says that he supports the 'B-team' model that Formula 1 has implemented. Haas, Alfa Romeo and Toro Rosso are all teams who use parts from bigger teams. Other teams like Renault, Williams and McLaren feel that this is unfair. However, it seems that the model is set to stay in Formula 1 as it has the approval of the boss. 

“The Haas model is interesting and it has been very successful,” he told Sky Sports.

“It’s something we have to maintain for the future, for a small team to come in and be pretty respectable.

“There’s some trimming we need to do about what they’ve been able to do but all credit to them, they took a model that was there which nobody had exploited as much as they did, and it’s a great story.”

Haas boss Guenther Steiner is glad that the powers that be support the idea. 

"I wouldn’t say they are looking after us," he was quoted by PlanetF1. "I would rephrase that: they are looking after Formula 1.

"We are all egotistic obviously and somebody is a referee to look after the business that we have enough teams here that can fight at an equal level."

Formula 1 looks set to continue with the way things are at the moment.