{"id":19799,"date":"2013-11-04T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19799"},"modified":"2013-11-04T07:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:09:56","slug":"sir-frank-williams-plans-to-contact-brawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sir-frank-williams-plans-to-contact-brawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Frank Williams plans ‘to contact’ Brawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, deputy boss Claire Williams said the Oxfordshire based team has had “no conversations” with Ross Brawn.<\/p>\n

\"Frank-Williams-1\"But her father – the team’s famous founder, principal and majority owner Sir Frank Williams – has now revealed that talks with Brawn may in fact take place.<\/p>\n

Brawn’s future is currently the subject of hot speculation, as he could step down as Mercedes’ team boss at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Team chairman Niki Lauda has said he wants to keep the 58-year-old at Brackley, but Williams has now revealed he may launch a bid to lure Brawn to Grove.<\/p>\n

Brawn began his F1 career in the 70s when Sir Frank Williams gave him a job as a machinist.<\/p>\n

“When he was with us he was really extraordinarily clever in terms of engineering — he is very gifted,” Frank Williams told the British broadcaster Sky.<\/p>\n

“I am sure he has accumulated infinitely more knowledge … so if he was to come he would be a great addition.<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t aware he was available.\u00a0 I may now have to contact him.\u00a0 I can say no more,” he added.<\/p>\n

“The reason I am being hesitant is that I do employ people already and it is very unlikely that we could afford Ross, or that he would want to come to us, so all I would be doing if we didn’t get him would be offending everyone at the team already,” said Williams.<\/p>\n

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A few days ago, deputy boss Claire Williams said the Oxfordshire based team has had “no conversations” with Ross Brawn. But her father – the team’s famous founder, principal and majority owner Sir Frank Williams – has now revealed that talks with Brawn may in fact take place. Brawn’s future is currently the subject of …<\/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":[3],"tags":[434,5262,5340,35,541,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799"}],"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=19799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19800,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799\/revisions\/19800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}