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Having stepped down as Mercedes’ team boss, the famous 59-year-old has been heavily linked with McLaren and the great British team’s 2015 engine supplier Honda.<\/p>\nDespite earlier saying he would consider his F1 future during a sabbatical, Ross Brawn now insists he has definitively retired.<\/p>\n
Having stepped down as Mercedes’ team boss, the famous 59-year-old has been heavily linked with McLaren and the great British team’s 2015 engine supplier Honda.<\/p>\n
But despite saying earlier he would contemplate returning to the paddock this year whilst spending time fishing, Brawn announced at the weekend that he has in fact decided to retire.<\/p>\n
“What they didn’t realise when I was invited here was they had a scoop because the world’s press was trying to find out if I was retiring or not,” he said at a fishing event in Scotland.<\/p>\n
“This is the busiest time of the year for formula one and I said I would come along and open the River Dee.<\/p>\n
“If they had put two and two together they would have realised I was definitely retiring,” Brawn added.<\/p>\n
“I’m retiring — it’s not tongue in cheek,” he insisted.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to take a year to enjoy the fishing and then see what life brings.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to it but I’ve got no other plans.”<\/p>\n
At his former employer, Mercedes said it will not be filling the position of team principal in Brawn’s absence.<\/p>\n
“Yes, that position is a thing of the past,” the Brackley team’s Toto Wolff told the official F1 website.<\/p>\n
Driver Nico Rosberg said he now reports directly to Wolff, Briton Paddy Lowe and chairman Niki Lauda.<\/p>\n
“Technical (issues) is Paddy, but if I don’t like the colour of the race car I go to Toto!” he joked.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, it is rumoured Lotus is preparing to confirm ousted McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh as its new team principal, with an announcement possible before the forthcoming Bahrain test.<\/p>\n
It is also emerging from Woking based McLaren, where former Lotus boss Eric Boullier is now ‘racing director’, that aerodynamic chief Marcin Budkowski is leaving, according to Italy’s Italiaracing.<\/p>\n
The report said McLaren reported “differences regarding future development”, although more likely is that Budkowski has paid the price for the disastrous 2013 car.<\/p>\n
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