(CNN) -- Ferrari would welcome back Ross Brawn to help turn around the famous Formula One team's flagging fortunes. As Ferrari's former technical director, Brawn helped guide the Scuderia to six constructors' titles as well as five world titles between 2000 and 2004 with Michael Schumacher.Ferrari's new team principal Marco Mattiacci revealed to CNN he would be happy to work with the English technical guru."Ross Brawn is an iconic figure at [Ferrari headquarters] Maranello," Mattiacci told CNN. "Everyone would like to have Ross or would like to see Ross back at Ferrari."Ferrari would love to emulate Mercedes' sensational return to form, perhaps with Brawn's help."We've talked several times," said the Ferrari team principal, who took over the role following Stefano Domenicali's resignation in April. "Ross has been at Ferrari. He came here with friends so it was very nice to spend a few minutes [together]."When asked if he was confident he might be able to tempt Brawn to also return to Ferrari, Mattiacci responded: "As I said, at the moment I'm building a new team."James is the technical director and I want to start from this point. To tango you have to have two," the classical music fan told CNN. "Maybe Ross is happy with what he is doing."Brawn, who turned to his hobby of fly-fishing after leaving Ferrari in 2006, might not be fishing for a return to F1 or Ferrari yet. But if Mattiacci could persuade him to join the Italian marque he would have landed one of the sport's biggest catches.
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Thought this deserved its own thread so it won't fill up the 2015 SIlly Season and Ferrari threads. Plus now we have some confirmation they want him and have held talks.
What do we make of this?
Edited by Cyanide, 01 September 2014 - 21:15.