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Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.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.
 
I was cheering when they both crashed, frankly - finally gave us a motor race, instead of a Rosberg procession. Interesting to read that NR is apparently having talks with Ferrari about next season too.
 
Pretty strange comments from Toto if he wants us to believe a brake issue played any part whatsoever in the Austrian incident.

"It was brainless," a furious Toto Wolff told Sky F1. "Cars colliding seems a deja-vu. It's absolutely not what we want.

"We are looking like a bunch of idiots and it's disrespectful to 1500 people who work their nuts off to prepare the cars and this is why it needs to end."

I do not think he would be so publicly angry if it was indeed a defining factor.
 
They still can, if they don't run each other off the track. Which this year happened everytime they were alongside each other.
 
But I don't think either man is interested in dutifully following their teammate home at this point.

I'm sure people won't be shocked by my opinion, but the only thing that really needs to be addressed is Rosberg's defensive tactics.
 
Today, at least looking at the footage, which was very clear, Rosberg made very little effort to steer round the curve, I would say there was even a small tweak of the wheel toward Hamilton. A small flick of temper, which cost him.
 
Rosberg did not have a brake problem. Nico messed his braking up and hit Hamilton. I wish Merc would stop sugar coating it.

As for intent I Don't think he pee-planned to push Hamilton off the road.
 
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Actually just looked it again. He did mess his braking up but then decided to hang Lewis out to dry! Tut tut Nico that was naughty.
 
Hamilton in a Red Bull. Hmmm now there's an interesting thought. No doubt Max would provide just as big a headache though.

It would be fantastic if Riciardo went in the other direction though.
 
Do you not think all this talk of a Vase being smashed, who's getting a race ban and who's talking to other teams, is not just PR spin to deflect from the rock & hard place that Mercedes find themselves in?

Drivers need to race vs F1 being Boring
Lewis Crashing into Nico vs Everyone else in F1 celebrating - not at the crash but the opportunity etc etc......
 
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