Ted Kravitz - the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from the pit lane
The Mole welcomes BBC F1 pit-lane reporter Ted Kravitz to the blog to give his inside line on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and some pointers for 2010.
Brawn
Team boss Ross Brawn admitted on Saturday night that his car had been out-developed by Red Bull and McLaren, but revealed an impressively daring strategy that should enure his team are not a one-championship wonder.
The Brawn car arrived at the first grand prix this year as the most developed car of all. Where other teams were only on their Mark I designs, Brawn was at the equivalent of Mk III.
Add what turned out to be the legal double-diffuser concept and they had a massive head start.
The team did some development work on the car, but by the time of the Turkish Grand Prix in early June, Brawn took a gamble.
He believed the car had enough in hand to win the championship, so told his design engineers to switch their attentions to the 2010 car.
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Brawn told us that they only switched wind-tunnel attention back to the 2009 car for one week between mid-summer and the end of the season when they realised they might need a bit more performance to secure the championship.
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