Upon further reflection, Mercedes buying out Brawn GP really annoys me because that means that there is one less independent team, a team that exists just for racing. Also, for me, owning your own F1 team would be my ultimate goal especially one where it's my name on the car. Now it's a corporate blank face, it's not Ross Brawn and Nick Fry but the whole Mercedes company. The same company that metaphorically raped Chrysler, leaving it a shattered husk of what it was. No longer can I relate the plight of the ruins of the Honda team being resurrected by Ross Brawn and having a killer of a season because I can no longer see Brawn as the head of the team but instead a single faceless, grey blob. Drivers that will thank the sponsors and give uniform responses to questions asked by the media. Brawn GP was a team that I would have wanted to work for, knowing that I'm not some employee number, but a functioning and respected part of the team who contributes valuable information towards vehicle development. Not having to submit my ideas into a corporate board meeting where all of the bigwigs will decide if my idea is beneficial for the team and the company and their image. I believe that in a small team, engineers are allowed to be much more creative and are allowed to interpret the regulations as freely as they want because they don't have a board worrying that the governing body might deem pieces on the car illegal because that would ruin the company's reputation.
