Comments on: F1 – Button/Brawn Fallout http://openpaddock.net/2009/11/19/f1-buttonbrawn-fallout/ Open Paddock is an online community of motorsport enthusiasts. We cover Rally, IndyCar, Formula 1, ALMS & Le Mans with our own mix of opinion and news commentary. Come join the conversation in the forum or leave a comment. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:45:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scarlet Pimpernel http://openpaddock.net/2009/11/19/f1-buttonbrawn-fallout/comment-page-1/#comment-1291 Scarlet Pimpernel Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:25:42 +0000 http://openpaddock.net/?p=2537#comment-1291 Well, sink me ! That little twit Nick Fry CEO of Brawn-Mercedes GP thinks that they offered Button "loyalty" and Button paid them in return with the dastardly move to McLaren ??? Wake up Fry - don't you think Button did enough by lowering his salary - or by sitting around Brawn-BAR-Honda for 7 bloody years isn't "loyalty" enough you stupid twit. Boy you really served up the best car for Button as Chief Executive Officer of Honda F1 didn't you ?! When Honda Motor Co. bought Ken Tyrrell's "Tyrrell Racing Team" in 2005, sources close to the deal have hinted that a "due diligence" or accounting of what they were buying took several weeks to complete to satisfy the Japanese company that all was as the sellers said it was. Its called "kicking the tires" mate. So what do you think F1 drivers do when they are offered lucrative contracts to solidify their bums in F1 seats for 2 or 3 years??? They "kick the tires" by conducting their own informal "due diligence" on the prospective team's on-site operations and personnel. Do you think they just jump in not knowing what its all about ? But I guess that only Nucklehead Fry and Boris Brawn are only allowed to invite Nico Rosberg and other drivers around to Brackley/Northants for a bit of tea and a promenade around the shop. What a bunch of bloody hypocrites. OUCH is right. The Scarlet Pimpernel is not impressed. Well, sink me ! That little twit Nick Fry CEO of Brawn-Mercedes GP thinks that they offered Button “loyalty” and Button paid them in return with the dastardly move to McLaren ??? Wake up Fry – don’t you think Button did enough by lowering his salary – or by sitting around Brawn-BAR-Honda for 7 bloody years isn’t “loyalty” enough you stupid twit. Boy you really served up the best car for Button as Chief Executive Officer of Honda F1 didn’t you ?! When Honda Motor Co. bought Ken Tyrrell’s “Tyrrell Racing Team” in 2005, sources close to the deal have hinted that a “due diligence” or accounting of what they were buying took several weeks to complete to satisfy the Japanese company that all was as the sellers said it was. Its called “kicking the tires” mate. So what do you think F1 drivers do when they are offered lucrative contracts to solidify their bums in F1 seats for 2 or 3 years??? They “kick the tires” by conducting their own informal “due diligence” on the prospective team’s on-site operations and personnel. Do you think they just jump in not knowing what its all about ? But I guess that only Nucklehead Fry and Boris Brawn are only allowed to invite Nico Rosberg and other drivers around to Brackley/Northants for a bit of tea and a promenade around the shop. What a bunch of bloody hypocrites. OUCH is right.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is not impressed.

]]> By: Brian McKay http://openpaddock.net/2009/11/19/f1-buttonbrawn-fallout/comment-page-1/#comment-1290 Brian McKay Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:45:25 +0000 http://openpaddock.net/?p=2537#comment-1290 I think that disloyalty and greed are ugly. Honda and Brawn kept Jenson far bayond his "sell by" date, took him to the championship, and... perhaps offered to him "eight million pounds in salary and another four million," yet this is what Button does? Geez... I think that disloyalty and greed are ugly. Honda and Brawn kept Jenson far bayond his “sell by” date, took him to the championship, and… perhaps offered to him “eight million pounds in salary and another four million,” yet this is what Button does? Geez…

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