Current Mercedes

Mercedes GP

FIA Entry: Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team
Car 7: Michael Schumacher
Car 8: Nico Rosberg
Engine: Mercedes V8
Team Principal: Ross Brawn
Technical Director: Bob Bell
Race Engineer Car 7: Mark Slade
Race Engineer Car 8: Tony Ross

Stats as of end 2010

First Entered 2010
Races Entered 19
Race Wins 0
Pole Positions 0
Fastest Laps 0
Driver World Championships 0
Constructor World Championships 0

Team History

The Mercedes team history splits into two parts. In 1954 the famous pre-war Silver Arrows entered the F1 world championship and recorded a 1-2 at their first race. Fangio went on to win the drivers championship that year and again in 1955. Mercedes withdrew at the end of the 1955 season after the accident which killed 80 spectators at Le Mans which involved one of their cars.

The current team entered F1 in 2010 after Mercedes bought Brawn Grand Prix. Brawn Grand Prix, winners of the Drivers Championship, with Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.

Prior to the Honda takeover in 2006 the team had raced under the name of British America racing which had acquired the assets and race entry of the Tyrrell F1 team in 1999. BAR competed in 118 races without a single victory. The high points for the team were 2 pole positions (both for Button – San Marino 2004 and Canada 2005) and 2nd in the constructors championship in 2004.

Tyrrell were amongst the most successful private F1 teams taking part in 463 Grands Prix, scoring 33 victories and 3 Drivers Championships, all with Jackie Stewart.

2010

Having replaced Button and Barrichello with Nico Rosberg and 7 times WDC Michael Schumacher many expected great things of the new Mercedes team in 2010 but they had an indifferent season.

Rosberg managed 3 podiums for the team but Schumacher, coming back from retirement, struggled with the new cars, tyres and limited testing under the revised regulations. The team finished 4th in the Constructors Championship.

2011

For 2011 Mercedes retain the same driver line up and are hoping for better things from their MGP W02 chassis.

 

[teabagyokel]

Don't know the point of these launches, they look nowt like by Melbourne.

 

[racecub]

Very true. Anyone who's come up with a really clever trick isn't going to put it on show for everyone to copy. But at least we get to see the colours, which ones are pretty , which ones

 

[teabagyokel]

I also think the liveries should change year-to-year as well. If HRT can manage it...

 

[Tacitus]

I guess I'll ask the question. During racing, how are we going to be able to identify what driver is in the mercedes?

 

[Jen]

Silly, the one in front will undoubtedly be Hamilton .

 

[teabagyokel]

The T-Bar, the red will be Rosberg, the yellow Hamilton!

 

[racecub]

Well that's east to remember, yellow hat yellow bar

 

[Tacitus]

Silly, the one in front will undoubtedly be Hamilton .

Dislike.

 

[racecub]

But likely fact.

 

[Lewywo4]

Nico said to Ted Kravitz...." The car is a big step forward "....I surely hope so.

 

[Brogan]

Nico was on fire today.

Literally.

 

[Bill Boddy]

Brogan strikes again.

http://cliptheapex.com/threads/2013...de-jerez-5-8-february.5931/page-5#post-179416

 

[Tacitus]

Brogan strikes again.

http://cliptheapex.com/threads/2013...de-jerez-5-8-february.5931/page-5#post-179416

The link is dead now anyway so i'll remove it.

 

[Brogan]

"I've been saying since June last year that there was something wrong with their front-wing philosophy. All the teams are struggling to get enough downforce from the front wing, but Mercedes have been taking downforce-producing bits off it. From what I know the bits do, the pieces missing are worth about 40kg of downforce. That equates to about 60kg of lost downforce at the back, because it's a 40:60 ratio, and so that's 100kg of downforce they don't have that they could. That's worth 0.8secs a lap."

"I'm sure Mercedes have plans in place to fix that. They have nine days of testing left after this one and they have to make them count. Everyone's saying they're concentrating on 2014, when big regulation changes are introduced. But while there is a huge change in the engine rules, with the introduction of 1.6-litre V6 turbos with extensive energy recovery, the chassis rules are a continuation of the current ones, with a few small changes. So if Mercedes are going to get the best out of the aerodynamics of the car in 2014, they have to prove they understand them and can do the same this year."

 

[sushifiesta]

I guess you decided to avoid the backfire by not posting the first of his three observations Brogan . Well, I'm not going to be so politically correct!

"The Mercedes is up and running this morning after its troubled first two days. The start of this test has obviously been a bit of a setback but the car has looked consistent out on the track. There is a new front wing coming on Friday, when Lewis Hamilton will be back in the car, and it's clear from Hamilton's comments on Wednesday that they need it. He admitted the car does not even have as much downforce as last year's McLaren. That might be a wake-up call for Mercedes."

 

[racecub]

This is a picture of the new front wing
http://img3.auto-motor-und-sport.de...-2013-19-fotoshowImageNew-f84a8b17-659678.jpg

 

[Greenlantern101]

Blimey paint that black and it would look like batman.

 

[racecub]

It looks a beast doesn't it

 

[Brogan]

I'm not convinced that front wings need to be as complex as that.

How many times have we seen a car with half the wing missing carry on with no obvious difference in lap times?

 

[RasputinLives]

Massa broke his a season or so back and was faster afterwards!