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2008 Honda RA108
Pictured is a 2008 Honda RA108 Grand Prix Car. The car is painted in 2011 Mercedes-Benz livery which featured on the MGP W02.
It was driven in Honda colours by 2009 World Champion Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. The actual 2011 Mercedes car was driven by seven-times World Champion Michael Schumacher and 2016 World Champion Nico Rosberg.
This is the last Honda Formula 1 car to be raced, Honda Racing being purchased by team principal Ross Brawn at the start of 2009 and being re-christened Brawn GP. After winning the world championship in 2009, Brawn was itself bought out by Mercedes-Benz, bringing the German marque back to Formula 1 as a constructor for the first time since 1955.
This car never got close to winning a race, it's highest position being third with Rubens Barrichello in a British Grand Prix held in atrocious conditions. That result aside, the car only scored minor points on three other occasions. Barrichello and Button would end the season fourteenth and eighteenth in the Drivers Championship respectively. Honda would end their last season as ninth best constructor.
The actual 2011 Mercedes-Benz MGP W02 placed Mercedes fourth in the Constructors Championship, the best result of 2011 being Schumacher's strong drive to fourth in Canada. The drivers finished the championship in 7th (Rosberg) and 8th (Schumacher) positions overall.
Pictured in January 2012 at the Autosport International show at the NEC in Birmingham.
2008 Honda RA108
Pictured is a 2008 Honda RA108 Grand Prix Car. The car is painted in 2011 Mercedes-Benz livery which featured on the MGP W02.
It was driven in Honda colours by 2009 World Champion Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. The actual 2011 Mercedes car was driven by seven-times World Champion Michael Schumacher and 2016 World Champion Nico Rosberg.
This is the last Honda Formula 1 car to be raced, Honda Racing being purchased by team principal Ross Brawn at the start of 2009 and being re-christened Brawn GP. After winning the world championship in 2009, Brawn was itself bought out by Mercedes-Benz, bringing the German marque back to Formula 1 as a constructor for the first time since 1955.
This car never got close to winning a race, it's highest position being third with Rubens Barrichello in a British Grand Prix held in atrocious conditions. That result aside, the car only scored minor points on three other occasions. Barrichello and Button would end the season fourteenth and eighteenth in the Drivers Championship respectively. Honda would end their last season as ninth best constructor.
The actual 2011 Mercedes-Benz MGP W02 placed Mercedes fourth in the Constructors Championship, the best result of 2011 being Schumacher's strong drive to fourth in Canada. The drivers finished the championship in 7th (Rosberg) and 8th (Schumacher) positions overall.
Pictured in January 2012 at the Autosport International show at the NEC in Birmingham.