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Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.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.
 
Im sure its amazing espically the engine department but after 3 years of this domination & others getting nowhere near. Felt like this with their celebration. Because its like Manchester utd winning League 1 & going overboard
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Personally, I think that maintaining this level of dominance for 3 years is an incredible achievement, especially considering that they have no real tangible advantage over Ferrari, Red Bull or McLaren in real terms, and they are at the front, so it should be more difficult to maintain the edge but they have managed to.

So yes, the third year is probably more impressive (to me at least) than the first.
 
Exactly the reason why there should be no change in the rules for the 2017 season. Who can usefully spend the most money and hence have a dominant year?
 
We'll see in 2017 if Mercedes will still be the dominant power after the new technical rules come to power. Aerodynamics will be the most important next year.
 
2017 will still have Mercedes supplying engines to a good percentage of the field; it will be interesting to see if they can keep sufficient power to overcome the Red Bull aero; if Renault are equal on power it rather looks like RBR will be in the lead.
 
Truly embarrassing performance on the radio from Merc today. Acting like a team looking for their first GP victory or to break a long win-less drought or something. Really spoiled what should have been a pretty interesting finish. This team is in need of some serious comeuppance.
 
What do we do if we could back in March & nothings changed. Merc are as dominant as ever as i dont think i can take another yr if this. Even the drivers in press conference seemed fed up, going on JB & Massa responses. At least under red bull we had 2010 & 2012
 
Well we will at least see a more impressive battle between Ricciardo and Verstappen than we have between Hamilton and Rosberg.
 
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