Tag: f1

…But not first place. The Indian GP yesterday saw reigning champ Sebastian Vettel clinch the F1 championship, his fourth in a row. Tires were an issue once again as the soft options suffered from early degradation affecting all drivers except Sebastian Vettel. Who, of course, qualified on the pole. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas cars were strong […] More »

Content Provided Courtesy of Benz-InsiderIt’s amazing what a race win can do for a driver’s confidence. Just take Lewis Hamilton, who only recently managed to win his first race as a member of the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team. It took Hamilton 10 races to get that first win after leaving McLaren-Mercedes, finally getting the […] More »

As you’ve probably heard by now, Formula One is switching… well, formulas next season and mandating turbo-charged V6  powerplants in an attempt to ‘green’ the sport a bit. In an informal poll we conducted, ten people had eleven opinions as to whether this is good or bad. We know the cars will continue to be […] More »

The Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team may be banned from the Formula 1 Young Driver Test at Silverstone, but at least Mercedes-Benz DTM driver and junior team member Daniel Juncadella is getting some action. The 22-year-old Spanish driver managed to complete 55 laps during the first day, with a lap time that’s good for fifth-best among all participants. The best lap time on Wednesday belonged to Kevin Magnussen of McLaren, and he also ran the most laps at 100.

With the new engine configuration set to come into play in the 2014 Formula One season, teams are scrambling to find the right engine supplier to be competitive starting next year. The Williams F1 team is the recent team has decide on Mercedes-Benz as their engine supplier.

Mercedes-Benz had quite the weekend at the Nürburgring. The company proved that its cars have tons of go, when the Black Falcon Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 took the overall win in the 2013 edition of the ADAC 24 Rennen at the Nürburgring. But the saying is show then go. Mercedes-Benz did their best to make […] More »

I’m a very big fan of Mercedes-Benz’s “Racing Is A State of Mind” ad campaign and one of their great commercials has finally been shot in English. If put into a situation where your car is broken down, child birth for your significant other is imminent, and Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher are at your disposal […] More »