Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team 2013

[Cocles]

MGP

You know they haven't been called "Mercedes GP" since the W02, right?

[marcush.]

so it´s MAMGPF1 now ?

[Morteza]

so it´s MAMGPF1 now ?

Yup! It is Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team

[Cocles]

Words from Toto...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/108730

[Vasconia]

Words from Toto...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/108730

Nothing really new and interesting. I think that the problem of Mercedes with the tyres has never disappeared totally and we will see in Hungary that the car struggles with high temperatures.

But Toto needs to say this because the pressure for the team is high and they need more time and races to see if they the problem is part of the past.

[Hail22]

Lewis Hamilton Vs an RAF Red Robbin:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6YsEfNS8Y[/youtube]

[marcush.]

so it´s MAMGPF1 now ?

Yup! It is Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team

Ah ..I think I got the hang of it now ... MAMGPFOT ! very very distinguishing and easy to remember .

[elf341]

so it´s MAMGPF1 now ?

Yup! It is Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team

Ah ..I think I got the hang of it now ... MAMGPFOT ! very very distinguishing and easy to remember .

What's wrong with just calling them "Merc", or simply "Mercedes"? The point is that MGP is just wrong when referring to the current team; when someone mentions MGP I think of the W01/W02 and Loic Bigois.

[spadeflush]

Secret taped phone call could land Wolff in hot water

It has emerged that an explosive conversation with Mercedes director and Williams co-owner Toto Wolff was secretly recorded recently by a former Formula 1 team boss.

That is the claim of Bild correspondent Nicola Pohl who reports that the phone call was then transcribed and threatened to be used against the 41-year-old Austrian.

She said the story is the latest chapter in a ‘war’ that has broken out in the paddock, following Mercedes’ ascendance to the very top of the Formula 1 pecking order, and the ‘test-gate’ scandal.

In the taped conversation, Wolff is thought to have spoken negatively about not only his Formula 1 boss, Ross Brawn, but also the Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche.

He also reportedly spoke about the details of his Williams shareholding and his clashing duties at Mercedes, and his ‘complicated’ cooperation with Niki Lauda. (GMM)

http://grandprix247.com/2013/07/17/wolf ... hone-call/

[SectorOne]

Apparently it was Colin Kolles who threatened to blackmail Wolff.

Former HRT boss Colin Kolles tried to blackmail Mercedes chief Toto Wolff earlier this year, it has emerged.

We reported earlier that a conversation between Austrian Wolff and a then-unnamed former F1 team boss was “secretly recorded” and then threatened to be used against him.

Bild newspaper had said Wolff spoke negatively about his own boss, Ross Brawn, colleague Niki Lauda, and also Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche, whilst divulging details of his clashing co-ownership of the Williams team.

A subsequent report by the magazine Sport Bild said Wolff had been taped in mid February this year by former HRT and Force India boss Kolles, in Barcelona.

That report said Kolles then threatened to release the details of their explosive conversation unless he paid a sum of money.

Reportedly, Wolff and Kolles have settled their dispute with the intervention of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, while Mercedes has obtained a court order preventing the publication of the details of the conversation.

Sport1 said Kolles would not comment, and Mercedes also declined to comment.

The German news agency SID said Wolff could not be reached at time of publication.

http://www.f1zone.net/news/ex-f1-boss-k ... lff/19745/

[ringo]

what the heck is going on with this team?
It's attracking all the "haters" lol. They're the new redbull in that regard, but it's seems they're an easier target.

[marcush.]

why bother...I call them MGP and DAI if it´s the mothership and you call them Merc ..we both are wrong but it does not make them any slower .

Very amusing to see Wolff a bit lazy in his choice of words and when better keep the mouth shut.This will certainly do no good to his stance inside DAI .You just have to know with whom you can talk business..Wolff comes across as a elephant at times .....winding up RedBull in disrespectful ways ,and he does not even attempt to not contradict with words from Lauda ,Brawn etc ...

[Cocles]

why bother...I call them MGP and DAI if it´s the mothership and you call them Merc ..we both are wrong but it does not make them any slower .

Why bother? Because it's not their name anymore. Also, they're a full works operation. You don't see people referring to Ferrari as "SF", because they'd look like a prat. Their colloquial/fan name is "Mercedes", and brits contract it by saying "Merc". The rest of the fans then picked that up.

Since you've heard all of this before in other Merc threads, I can only assume this is just your little way of being passive aggressive towards the Merc fans. I wish we had the Marcush who posts in the non-Merc threads. That guy is awesome.

Like elf341 said, when I see MGP, I think you're specifically referring to the 2010 & 2011 seasons.

[mantikos]

Apparently it was Colin Kolles who threatened to blackmail Wolff.

Former HRT boss Colin Kolles tried to blackmail Mercedes chief Toto Wolff earlier this year, it has emerged.

We reported earlier that a conversation between Austrian Wolff and a then-unnamed former F1 team boss was “secretly recorded” and then threatened to be used against him.

Bild newspaper had said Wolff spoke negatively about his own boss, Ross Brawn, colleague Niki Lauda, and also Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche, whilst divulging details of his clashing co-ownership of the Williams team.

A subsequent report by the magazine Sport Bild said Wolff had been taped in mid February this year by former HRT and Force India boss Kolles, in Barcelona.

That report said Kolles then threatened to release the details of their explosive conversation unless he paid a sum of money.

Reportedly, Wolff and Kolles have settled their dispute with the intervention of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, while Mercedes has obtained a court order preventing the publication of the details of the conversation.

Sport1 said Kolles would not comment, and Mercedes also declined to comment.

The German news agency SID said Wolff could not be reached at time of publication.

http://www.f1zone.net/news/ex-f1-boss-k ... lff/19745/

In which case he'd be in jail for attempting to do so

[marcush.]

why bother...I call them MGP and DAI if it´s the mothership and you call them Merc ..we both are wrong but it does not make them any slower .

Why bother? Because it's not their name anymore. Also, they're a full works operation. You don't see people referring to Ferrari as "SF", because they'd look like a prat. Their colloquial/fan name is "Mercedes", and brits contract it by saying "Merc". The rest of the fans then picked that up.

Since you've heard all of this before in other Merc threads, I can only assume this is just your little way of being passive aggressive towards the Merc fans. I wish we had the Marcush who posts in the non-Merc threads. That guy is awesome.

Like elf341 said, when I see MGP, I think you're specifically referring to the 2010 & 2011 seasons.

It´s not meant to be aggressive ,not actively nor passive .For me MGP is just convenient ,Merc is -for me Mercury ,the car make not the substance.

I may add that in my home country everyone originating from Stuttgart area would refer to them as being Daimler and nothing else and in contrast not even 70 km away in Hockenheim or Mannheim you would be laughing as the car with the three pointed star is a BENZ and nothing else...
So what you think is their name is not even existing here where their roots are .A Mercedes does just not exist here in Baden-württemberg ...it´s written down on the cars ,yes, but still nobody uses that name.
Just to put your views into my context....