Team principal Ross Brawn is going back to their Brackley HQ with a shopping list of updates.

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About 270 jobs will be lost from the team's Brackley factory in England.

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Fry revealed that staff at Brawn's Brackley factory in England had been informed and redundancy letters had gone out in mid-March.

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Mr Sawford said it was "really worrying" that Northamptonshire could be left with just three ambulance stations, at Kettering, Northampton and Brackley.

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That is the warning of Mercedes motorsport vice-president Norbert Haug, amid reports the Brackley outfit are now working almost exclusively on its 2011 car.

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It is understood the 600 members of staff at Brackley, near the Silverstone circuit in England, were told job losses would be likely, even if a buyer was found for the team.

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Button also won in Malaysia and was third in China to top of the drivers' standings ahead of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix, ensuring the Brackley-based team have suddenly become a hot ticket.

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"I can say already that the guys and girls back in the factories at Brackley and Brixworth were brilliant in putting in so much effort, and we can only say a big thank you them, " he said.

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The British GP has been held every year since 1948 and has a rich history, while recently English drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have won 2008 and 2009 world titles respectively with Brackley-based Brawn also clinching this year's constructors' crown.

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