{"id":15494,"date":"2012-03-16T07:10:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15494"},"modified":"2012-03-16T07:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:10:17","slug":"wealth-has-not-dimmed-brawns-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/wealth-has-not-dimmed-brawns-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealth has not dimmed Brawn&#8217;s drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn insists great wealth has not affected his drive to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>As team boss, the Briton bought Brackley based Honda for a nominal pound after the 2008 season, before &#8216;Brawn GP&#8217; and Jenson Button raced to the drivers&#8217; and constructors&#8217; titles.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of that campaign, Brawn sold the team to Mercedes, and the Financial Times claims the Briton &#8211; still team principal &#8211; collected dozens of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m obviously a lot wealthier now than before and you wonder if you still have the same motivation to get up in the morning,&#8221; Brawn said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it did not alter my perspective or my passion and ambition to succeed in racing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His job now is to win for Mercedes, and 2012 is year three, and the end of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s initial contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it does not come off I will have to recognise there is something missing, something I am not able to do that perhaps someone else should have a go at,&#8221; revealed Brawn.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn insists great wealth has not affected his drive to succeed. As team boss, the Briton bought Brackley based Honda for a nominal pound after the 2008 season, before &#8216;Brawn GP&#8217; and Jenson Button raced to the drivers&#8217; and constructors&#8217; titles. At the end of that campaign, Brawn sold the team to Mercedes, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[122,5262,5340,34,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15495,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions\/15495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}