While everyone celebrates in Great Briton about Jenson Button winning the drivers chmponship, behind the scenes Ross Brawn and Mercedes celebrate winning the constructors championship. Now the rumours are rife that Mercedes may want a part of the team and want to buy into it, something that Mclaren its other engine partner may not want to hear, after all who would get priority to development. Mercedes helped Brawn out big style with only 3 weeks to go to the start of the season and offered to put their engines in the Honda designed chassis withiout signing a single contract.
It should no be surprsing that this success story would have influenecd Mercedes to want to be part of the team on a more permanent basis. It is an unusual story in a time where cost cutting seems to be the priority in F1 and huge changes are about. BMW are pulling out at the send of this season and are still looking for a buyer, this was a team that may have seen tis year as a winnng or a least challenging for the title year. Instead, performance has been dreadfull, where Merecedes chance in a Brawn turned out to be a goldmine with no one forseeing this dream partnersip win.
With one more reace to go, lets hope all these rumpurs are put to rest for next season.
Who would have though that the star engine in a formula one car at the beginning of the year would be Mercedes, well we might have, but this would have been the Mclaren Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton who won the championship last year. However Mclaren’s start was not that impressive for the first part of the year to the pint they have given up on the championsip. \you would have though teh m\mercedes team would have been quietly disapointed, but as it turns out hey have scored a double whammy this season. This is becuase as Mclaren did not score points the newly formed Brawn racing did, in fact it won 6 out of the first 7 races. then Rubens has gone and won another 2 races, making a total of 8 for the Brawn team, keeping the smiles on the Mercedes engined team.
If this was not enough, Mclaren have now got their act together and have also just started to win races again, adding another 2 to the Mercedes tally.
The argument that motorsport and especially F1 is all about aerodynamics now-adays may have some credence, but there must be a connection between the reliability of the Mercedes Formula One engines and the wins they have produced. Mercedes have been releasing some new road models recently and have been working hard to get over the “quality of build” issues that many motoring magazine have criticised them for, so lets hope some lessons learned in the motorsport area can be transfered in to the mercedes you and me drive.