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Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.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

I unterstand his decision, the pressure is gone and he has achieved what he wanted to achieve when he started racing. In a way his video of his dad and him of when he was racing a kart around their house in Spain has a different feel to it now.

It is a great pity that we will not see Rosberg and Hamilton battle another season. In my books two great drivers and three very sympathetic drivers - I do not mean Gutierrez, Haryanto and Nasr ;) - have left the sport which is a huge loss.
 
Merdeces are in no rush in any case, they' ve just come out as saying they will "take the necessary time" to decide on Nico's replacement. As this stage of things that would normally suggest they' ll be busy exploring the legal wrangles that come with buying out someone's contract. Since we don't know whatever clause anyone has on theirs or the finer details of them it could quite literally be, well, anybody anyone cares to mention. And would there be anyone who'd willingly turn down an offer from them given the chance?
 
Is this something we'd get to see a lot next year?

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Just thinking out loud here but we've already had hints that Mercs car is not maybe where it should be next year (Toto and Lewis both suggesting that next years rules aren't the right direction for the sport is a big hint) so could that maybe be an influence on Nico's decision? If you we're thinking about it already and then you suspected you'd be down the field not fighting for the title anyway then you might call it a day!
 
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