Ahh feel the love eh guys?
Mercedes will not disappear into the F1 wilderness like Honda BMW and others. This here is a commitment by Mercedes to stay in F1.
The whole Mclaren saga has now faded and Mercedes are battling to progress.
I think this whole bedding in period is actually of a benefit to Mercedes. Had they bought Brawn, and won immediatley people would question the authenticity of Mercedes victories. As it stands Mercedes would obviously prefer this scenario to the one they are in now.
But lets not forget a few things.
Mercedes struggled initially with Mclaren taking nearly 4 years to get to winning ways.
They invested a ton of cash in McLaren, and they got their rewards in 98 99. However they then went through the tumultuous 2001-2003 engine blow up phase which was never fully recoverede until Mercedes took full control of Ilmor and renamed it MBHPE.
The precedent you see here is that of inital struggles overcome by timely interventions, and then steady progress until they become winners. This is the way Mercedes has shown it operates and it will continue with the GP team until it wins.
The 3 year winning plan has become 5, and Im sure after 5 years Mercedes will have won a couple if not more races(even if they are through pure luck). Who knows, but 1 thing is for certain is that Mercedes have the appetite and are getting stuck into this wholehearted.
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