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Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.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.
 
Lewis is geeing them on for more downforce. I do hope they can find it! otherwise it doesn't look too bad. It has speed and by all accounts is a big step forward from last year.
 
Only Rosberg can tell if the car is a step forward or not Lewis wouldn't have a clue....

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Every team is saying that their car is a step forward I would expect nothing less, even if it wasn't true...
 
racecub - The point is that Jerez is a twisty circuit. Mercedes were pace setters at Monaco last year so I was wondering how they did at the other similar circuit. I know Schumi had senior moments, so how did Rosberg do?
 
I'll be honest, if this years Mercedes was not a step on from last year, with the changes in the technical team, I would be seriously dissapointed, that said, I do not expect any driver to not say that this years car is a step on from last year, indeed McLaren, Red Bull, Lotus and Marussia have all said that the current car is an improvement.

It will be interesting to see how much each team has progressed, but I am not sure that will be absolutely obvious until Melbourne.
 
I'll be honest, if this years Mercedes was not a step on from last year, with the changes in the technical team, I would be seriously dissapointed

The Pits.....I don't believe that Ross Brawn is noted for making any overly optimistic or unrealistic statements. I felt very encouraged about Mercedes improvements, after reading comments made by Ross when he said..." happy with progress so far, given where the team was last year. " and " The step that we have to make from the end of last year to the beginning of this year is pretty substantial, and it's a moving target as well. From what I've seen it's very encouraging. It's the first car Aldo Costa has designed, and the aero group seems to be working well. So, lot's of encouraging signs. "

Ross is making me a believer....:)
 
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