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Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.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.
 
And we will know that RBR will never do anything to interfere with the results such as giving one driver a crap race strategy so that the other can win.:no:;):whistle:
 
Yes but when a Red Bull driver disobeys team orders everyone hates him. When a Merc driver does it he is rightfully ignoring the team interfering in the race.

Sorry to bring up ancient history but hey ho.
 
If you don't understand the unique situation that the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix presented and want to act like a driver egregiously disobeyed a team order then you really don't understand motor racing at all.

He just slowed the pace and Nico could do nothing but sweat. Even he described Lewis’s tactical driving as “perfect”. It was one of the most remarkable drives I have seen in my 500 Grands Prix

A little perspective…
 
Perhaps we should just ban team orders?

Oh wait......

Then again, its a team sport

Hang on....

Disobeying team orders is good

Or is it....

Disobeying team orders is bad

Has anyone seen my marbles?

:twisted:
 
If you don't understand the unique situation that the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix presented and want to act like a driver egregiously disobeyed a team order then you really don't understand motor racing at all.



A little perspective…

I couldn't agree with that article more. I Don't think either driver or team were out of order in doing what they did. Both calls were questionable but I would have done the same had I been in boths situation.

I raised the Vettel point because people's view on 'team orders' seems to depend on the circumstance. Maybe it's time for people to accept team orders - and not obeying them are part of the game.
 
As has been the case for decades:

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Why were the team interfering anyway ? If not to support Rosberg. Why not shut up and let them get on with it. The team already had everything they needed.
Under a no team interference situation, Hamilton would have been more aggressive about backing Rosberg into the pack, and Rosberg could have shown a ballsy response and fought back, maybe doing a bit of overtaking..
Wow, what a novel idea.

Shame on Mercedes.
 
I think it's Toto's way of publicly saying sorry for the team orders in Abu Dhabi without having to publicly say sorry for those team orders in Abu Dhabi.
 
You mean Toto realises that the team was seen to gift the championship to Rosberg in Abu Dhabi, and there are rumblings of discontent from the fans.
 
No single incident...

In actuality, it was any number of "single" incidents that this five point Championship hinged on. And aside from being obvious, saying that Nico won because he had the most points seems a convenient way to avoid a legitimate examination of the factors that ultimately decided the Championship.
 
It would be interesting to know what the status was on Rosberg's engines in the last few races of the season. The team were certainly concerned in Brazil but presumably there were two reasonable engines in Abu Dahbi because he put in plenty of laps in free practice on Friday; did he have an engine change for Saturday?
 
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