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Mercedes’ ‘Brackley Boys’ on 20 years of racing with Button, Schumacher, Rosberg and Hamilton

F1: Beyond The Grid

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Adrian Raynard and the BAR Era

It was quite a shock when you realised how hard it was. As Ron said, getting that thing to finish a race. I think we were testing in Manicore in the middle of the year before we got the thing to even do a race distance in testing. And basically, you had to assemble in entire cars with brand new parts and then just cross your fingers. The owner of Qualified 11th at the first race. He ran as high as third in Spain that year. So it was quick but unreliable. That was in the first day. It's difficult. How would you guys sum up the BAR era? We're not going to go into too much detail about what happened

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