Now Mercedes are understood to want him to launch their return to F1 following the takeover of Brawn.
On the field, two great teams went helmet-to-helmet in a battle of brawn.
Red Bull will want to take points out of Brawn's championship leader Jenson Button and, of course, they want to win the race.
Alonso's quickest lap lifted him clear of second-placed Sebastien Buemi of Toro Rosso with local hero Rubens Barrichello of Brawn GP third -- as he aims for the victory that will keep his slim world title hopes alive.
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The Roman Empire had made puny engineering, technological and artistic advances because it relied on copious use of human brawn, not brains.
The Brawn GP team was rescued from the brink of bankruptcy by Brawn and Nick Fry after Honda withdrew from Formula One at the end of 2008 due to the economic downturn.
The high temperatures which have hampered Red Bull at the Hungaroring could play into the hands of title rivals Brawn, who have struggled to get optimum tyre temperature in the cool conditions of the last two races.
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That positioning was a result of the very small but decisive pace advantage of Button's Brawn in qualifying.
It took the fluke of circumstance that is Brawn Grand Prix to finally get him into a good car.
But it's happening across industries, a creative conjoining of mobile-computing brawn, faster wireless speeds and data-crunching in the computing cloud.
Ferrari are in the process of rebuilding their team following the departures of technical director Ross Brawn and engine supremo Paolo Martinelli.
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With a two-week shutdown looming in August, when teams are banned from working on the development of their cars, Brawn wants to use every opportunity to find out why the team are struggling to find extra performance from their updates.
Jenson Button, who has moved to McLaren for 2010, laid the foundations for his world title by winning six of the first seven races, but Brawn were then faced with a rearguard battle for the rest of the season.
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The car on show was one of last year's Brawn cars in the new 2010 colour scheme.
"Michael has been very intense in terms of his approach, " Brawn said.
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"It's made it hard, the second half of the year, " Brawn said.
"We would love it if it were true but it's pure speculation from various members of the media, " Brawn told the Daily Telegraph.
Only recently has that figure risen, thanks partly to law, but more to automation and electronics, which have devalued brawn in favour of brains, or at least agile fingers.
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Brawn oversaw all seven of Michael Schumacher's world titles in addition to Jenson Button's in 2009.
But the brawn over brain approach of relying on the big men to punch holes only took the Ospreys so far.
Branson has decided Virgin will get more value out of backing an underdog after sponsoring Brawn GP in their championship-winning debut season.
Button, who left world champions Brawn at the end of last year following their takeover by Mercedes, was a second behind Schumacher with Australian Webber close behind him.
The 41-year-old German will be back on the circuit this year after deciding to return with the new Mercedes team, which took over world champions Brawn at the end of last year.
While other teams have added new parts to their car over the course of the first four races, Brawn's car is in the same spec as it was for the Australian Grand Prix at the start of the season.
Brawn dominated the start of the season, with Button winning six of the first seven races, and they found themselves caught in a controversy over the design of their car's rear diffuser, which several rivals said contravened the rules.
The Brawn team was formed out of the ashes of the former Honda outfit after the Japanese car giant pulled out of F1 last December as a result of the global financial crisis.
In today's game, in which speed and agility are as highly prized as bulk and brawn, the Welsh strategy of rounding up a bunch of behemoths and squeezing them into red jerseys might appear to be a primitive tactic.
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