After rumours had recently increased about a buyout of Brawn GP, Mercedes is now confirmed to have bought 75.1% of Brawn GP shares. The team will consequently be renamed to Mercedes GP and looks set to run world champion Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg in 2010.
Marcushmarcush. wrote:still the weight distribution is never going to explain their rise and fall of performance at a fingersnip...the performance goes from nearly there to outright inaccepatable in a matter of hours ...and thats never weight distribution as this cannot be changed from saturday to sunday
The game's afoot. I certainly think that engine manufacturers want to make things more interesting than they are now and make it worthwhile for their R and D, and that would certainly do it.xpensive wrote:Would it be in Mercedes image to stick around for an I4 turbo or even diesel regulation, I wonder.
"If the weight distribution remained free, then some would get it right by accident while others get it totally wrong. That's what we want to avoid,"JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/story-139583.html
When I lefr comment on their Facebook fan page that they have incompetent engineers and that Schumacher took to much risk involving with such team they promptly removed comment. Since truth hurts I think that 1. might come into play alsoJohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:Bottom line is Mercedes have problems they cannot solve with the W01.
1.Some say its because they are rubbish.
2.Some say its because of a lack of funds.
3.Some say its because of homologation rules.
Personally I think its points 2 and 3 that are most apt.
Zetsche has said that this is a 3 year project. Wins in year 1 were not expected, but a competitive level was expected to be shown.
This is what rankles Stuttgart, but now that the coffers are swelling again, maybe the Swabians will have it in them to pump some cash into this team.
A few AMG or HWA engineers would not go amiss either!
But did you say why they were rubbish?ggajic wrote: When I lefr comment on their Facebook fan page that they have incompetent engineers and that Schumacher took to much risk involving with such team they promptly removed comment. Since truth hurts I think that 1. might come into play also
Yer, I've repeated this elsewhere. Probably more important than the DD was the front wing which gave the car very good balance. They lucked out on those two jumps. Apart from that they struggled terribly to improve the car for the rest of the year.xpensive wrote:Remember this is the old BAR/Honda team which was utterly rubbish until they found a loophole in the aerodynamic rules with the DDD?
They were doing reasonably OK until they fired Geoff Willis - and then the wheels fell completely off. The Japs thought they could do it better and they were proved spectacularly wrong. That dysfunctional political situation still exists and many of the same technical people are still there.JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:They were competitive up to the earth car disaster.
It's not that simple. Other teams have money and resources, and Mercedes are now competing directly against three teams who can win races and championships. When Schumacher and Brawn were at Ferrari they competed against Williams and McLaren in alternate years as their sole competitor and it took them four years to win a championship. Whatever sponsorship Mercedes have got as a result of Schumacher being there will soon evaporate.But for them to be able to call the car Mercedes, they are going to have to invest money and intellectuals to this project. Of that I'm certain. But with Mclarens £200 million buyout money and the huge sponsorship Schumi and Mercedes are drawing, they have the financial clout to compete.
McLaren still have a veto on new engine customers and it was McLaren that stopped the Red Bull Mercedes partnership.segedunum wrote:They've already blown off Red Bull's advances towards the Mercedes engine and that decision needs to be justified considering that Mercedes would have won most of the races this year. I get the impression that they're wavering already.
xpensive wrote:Mandatory, like part of scrutineering, with fuel and fat driver or not?
Preposterous, but at the day and age when engine CoG is regulated, I guess anything is possible.
Ross Brawn has restated that he doesn't think Mercedes can supply another team, ergo they desperately don't want Red Bull to have their engine. That would put them under more pressure than McLaren, certainly the way things are now.twoshots wrote:McLaren still have a veto on new engine customers and it was McLaren that stopped the Red Bull Mercedes partnership.
