Report: Ross Brawn to step down
"We've said that we'll make the plans of the team, specifically the team, known at the end of the season and that's when we will make it clear what our plans are for the future and we certainly won't make any comment before then and will concentrate on trying to win this championship."
Some say the entire "Schumacher Team" may leave – Schumacher, Ross Brawn, Jean Todt and designer Rory Byrne, and it will be Raikkonen and Massa as drivers in 2007.
"I love the team. Ferrari is a fantastic team, a fantastic group of people," Brawn said. "When you first go to a team, your first job is just to sort out the dramas. When I went to Ferrari, there were a lot of day to day things that needed to be put right. "When we got over those initial hurdles, then we had to start thinking about building for the future because none of us are going to be there forever.
"I think you've seen with Rory, who has been a great servant of Ferrari for the past few years, that we've successfully brought on his successor in Aldo Costa. We've had a very good evolution there and there's evolutions going on throughout the whole organization. Formula One teams change shape and the shape of a team in the future may be different."
08/02/06 Ferrari have played down talk of the Formula One team's technical director Ross Brawn taking a sabbatical next year. "It's just another speculation," said a team spokesman on Wednesday. "We will tell the structure of the team only after the end of the season."
Brawn has masterminded all of world champion Michael Schumacher's seven world championships, two of them with Benetton in 1994 and 1995, and his future is likely to be closely linked to that of the German driver. Schumacher, 37, has yet to announce whether he is staying or retiring next year, but if Brawn goes, so too may Schumacher.
08/02/06 Ross Brawn will step down from his post as technical director at Ferrari next year, this week's Autosport magazine reports. The 51-year-old will take a sabbatical in 2007, with no decision currently made about his long-term future with the team.