The scale of the job of designing a F1 car has dramatically increased since the 1980’s and consequently with many more people now involved in the process this has given birth to the technical director role within teams. Ross Brawn is the ultimate Technical Director in F1 with an apparelled record of success in that job. As such he has overseen the championship-winning Benetton and Ferrari teams while earning credit as the mastermind behind Michael Schumacher’s seven world championship titles. Following that, in 2008, he became Team Principal of Honda and then acquired the team early next year to form the Brawn GP team, which won the Drivers’ Championship with Jensen Button and the Formula One Constructors title that year. Having sold the team to Mercedes he remained with the team for a further four years laying the foundation for the team’s dominance in the mid 2010’s. Although Ross Brawn will always be best remembered as a technical director, he was the chief designer at the Arrows F1 team from 1986 to 1988 before moving to Jaguar where he was lead designer on the Jaguar XJR-14 which won the 1991 World Sportscar Championship. He was also the person who successfully introduced the Double Diffuser with his own Brawn GP team in 2009. After leaving Mercedes, Ross Brawn became Formula One’s Managing Director of Motorsports and Technical Director. Question: Which is the only F1 team to have ever taken a 1st and 2nd place in a Grand Prix plus pole position in their debut race? Answer: Brawn GP Australia 2009 
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