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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Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.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.

 

[Dash Racing]

Briefly going back to a previous point in this thread, Mercedes included an F1 car in a commercial shown in the US, in fact I only ever see this ad on a race weekend, so it's not just drivers that are used to sell new cars.

 

[FB]

Still doesn't want to make me buy one.

 

[cider_and_toast]

I was having a browse through Mercedes GP's results of late and I happened to notice that Canada was the 26 consecutive time that one, the other or both drivers have appeared on the podium in a row. That's an impressive record of dominance by any teams standards.

That got me thinking about what the record for the longest run of podium appearances by a team with either driver was? Of course the best place to start must have been the Schui / Irvine and Schui / Rubens years. Sure enough, an incredible 53 consecutive races over 3 years from Malaysia 1999 to Japan 2002. That's going to take some beating I reckon.

 

[RasputinLives]

From an entertainment point of view I hope to never see it broken! Good stats though. Did Red Bull go for a longer streak than Merc?

 

[cider_and_toast]

Nope mate. They didn't even mange a full season of podiums during the Vettel / Webber years.

 

[RasputinLives]

So the Merc really is vastly more dominant than the Red Bull. Either that or Merc aren't stupid enough to hire Mark Webber!

 

[sushifiesta]

cider_and_toast Yep, that is indeed the longest run and the current Mercedes run is 2nd (even though it's only half as long!) There's only 8 constructors in the history of F1 that have managed 10 consecutive podiums: Ferrari (53 from 1999-2002), Mercedes (26 from 2014-2015), McLaren (19 from 2007-2008), Red Bull (19 from 2010-2011), Williams (17 from 1993-1994), Renault (17 from 2005-2006), Lotus (12 from 1963-1964) and Tyrrell (10 from 1972-1973). Many of those have achieved it on multiple occasions, though (I only noted the longest run).

 

[F1Brits_90]

Yeah we are also coming up for nearly a year of hearing german national anthem every gp weekend

 

[Dash Racing]

It could be worse - hearing the German and Italian national anthems every GP weekend was just ridiculous. I could play those anthems by ear, yet I'd struggle to do the same with the British national anthem.

 

[DaveD]

I must admit, as much as I'm a Merc fan, I could do without hearing the German National Anthem EVERY TIME I watch a race these days. And I was even pulling for Porsche at Le Mans...but then out came that music...like they were taunting me with their racing superiority

 

[teabagyokel]

It's the same with World Cup semi-finals.

 

[RasputinLives]

They get won on penalties too

 

[-WBF1-]

A bit of a puff piece, but killed a bit of time (50mins) I just stumbled on.

Also not a bad call by a previous (now banned member) only a year out.

If Mercedes are going to win a title it'll have to be with a Hamilton or a Vettel in 2013.

. Alright with the car they had I'm sure many other drivers could have won, but he made his prediction in 2011.

Roll on the next race I really don't like these 3 week breaks

 

[RasputinLives]

Yeah but Ray also used to say that if Kimi was in the same team as Alonso then he'd thrash him. As well as a whole load of other ridiculous nonesense.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

 

[teabagyokel]

He got that prediction DIRECTLY FROM FERNANDO'S EYES.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Ah them were the days. I miss 'em.

 

[olegg]

Silver-wash: Visualising Mercedes’ F1 dominance

 

[soccerman17]

Tough few years for McLaren and Ferrari there, Red Bull and Mercedes have been dominant. I think last year will be the last year of Mercedes dominance, although it will be closer than it is this year and last. I have absolutely no reasoning for this, just a hunch.

 

[Titch]

Mercedes will lose the edge anytime now....

 

[Greenlantern101]

Mercedes "surprised" by gap to rivals

Oh for god sake.

We have just spent all our development tokens and brought a much improved engine with us, and we are surprised our already very dominant car is even more dominant.

How can this be a surprise. Give me strength.