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Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.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 keeping my reputation in fact for years after the title win. Got a few good results. In a good car, who knows...?

Then the boss called me in.

"We've got a new team-mate for you, Jacques. He's a cut above Zonta and Panis, but it can't be a problem for you, champ.

Both Fisi and Ralf have beaten him, and anyway, you'll like him. He's a lovely boy."

That was the beginning of the end.
Who are you talking about?, I have no clue.
 
Still, I do not understand because
We've got a new team-mate for you, Jacques.
and then
He's a cut above Zonta and Panis, but it can't be a problem for you, champ. Both Fisi and Ralf have beaten him, and anyway, you'll like him. He's a lovely boy.
Who is the new team-mate?

I hope I'm not ruining a joke.
 
Don't worry Rutherford, you can guarantee you'll make jokes and references we won't get. All part of the the fun on here; just so long as you don't get all stroppy everyone will be fine :)
 
Goodness gracious it IS possible. Who'd have thunk it?

What's this thread again? Mercedes. Right. Come on Toto get a move on I can't keep talking nonsense just TELL ME WHO IT IS I mean how long do we have to wait aaaargh!!
 
I know vintly I could really do with my winnings before Xmas.

Esteban Ocon has gone home to France as of yesterday (I'm not a stalker I just follow him on twitter) so I'm guessing they'll have to wait for him to have a little break and come back to the Merc factory before they announce him. ;)
 
Is Briatore actually Alonso's manager? Wasn't it that Garcia Abad chappie, or is that all a smokescreen because of the old crashgate shite, or to stop his employers cottoning on him employing all the drivers he managed (except Mark Webber).
 
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