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Happy Birthday Ross

Ross Brawn (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 Team Principal. 28.07.2013. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary, Race Day - www.xpbimages.com, EMail: requests@xpbimages.com - copy of publication required for printed pictures. Every used picture is fee-liable. © Copyright: Batchelor / XPB Images

Ross Brawn celebrates his 61st birthday today. The former Benetton and Ferrari technical director was more recently team principal at Mercedes, a role he took on having won both the drivers' and constructors' championships with his own Brawn team following Honda's departure from F1 at the end of 2008. Having saved the team, Brawn eventually sold his shares to Mercedes and left as team principal at the end of the 2013 season having helped put in place the framework which makes the Silver Arrows so dominant today.

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.