Honda must be kicking itself for selling team now
The Brawn team finished one-two in Melbourne with drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, becoming the first team to take the top two slots in a Grand Prix debut since 1954.
“We are incredibly delighted that our team-mates, with whom we worked until last season, have started from extremely difficult circumstances to earn this victory," Honda said in a statement.
“Congratulations to the Brawn GP Formula One team."
The Japanese automaker pulled out of F1 in December, and Brawn closed a buy-out deal for the team earlier this month. Honda must be kicking itself now for they did not give Brawn time to work his magic and would have reaped the benefits of his design genius had they exercised some patience. Face it, it was too late last year for him to make their dog of a car look good, and this year they would have reaped the benefits of his clean sheet of paper design.