strategy

Using the power of algorithms to select a race strategy... and more to react when it all goes awry.

Jenson Button has pointed out that Brawn GP's 1-2 result was the result of teamwork, not just behind the scenes at the team's Brackley factory, but also on the pit-wall when it came to taking vital strategic decisions during qualifying and the race.

In an incredible post-race outburst, Rubens Barrichello accused Brawn GP of costing him victory in this weekend's German Grand Prix at the N?rburgring - and suggested that the team is going the right way to throwing the 2009 world championship away.

Toyota was left licking its wounds after a race it could - and perhaps should - have won in Sakhir today, with a crucial strategic error seeing the big-budget Japanese manufacturer once again come up short of registering its breakthrough Formula 1 victory.