Daniel Ricciardo has advised us that he is to leave the Team at the end of the 2018 season. Having joined the Red Bull family in 2008 as a member of the Red Bull Junior Team, with whom he won numerous junior titles, Daniel made his F1 debut in 2011 at the British Grand Prix. […]
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport is delighted to welcome UNIFIN, the leading independent leasing company in Latin America, as an Official Race Partner of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport for the 2018-2020 Mexican Grands Prix. Over the past 25 years, UNIFIN has become Mexico’s leading leasing company by promoting talent, innovation, competitiveness and teamwork. These values are essential foundations […]
The Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport Reserve Driver completed 116 laps at the Hungaroring and ended the day on top of the timesheets. His fastest lap of the day was also the fastest lap ever recorded around the circuit. Today’s programme focused on aerodynamic testing and brake developments
Summer break for Formula 1 and DTM: Toto Wolff sums up the season so far and looks ahead to the second half of the campaign This is what happened: Weekend results and facts News from the Mercedes-AMG Motorsport teams Four questions for Toto Wolff Social media news: What’s new online? This is what happened: Results […]
George Russell tests for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport in tricky conditions Date: Tuesday 31 July 2018 Driver: George Russell Circuit: Hungaroring Circuit Length: 4.381 km Laps Completed: 49 Distance Covered: 215 km Best Lap Time: 1:19.781 Before Formula One heads into the summer break, the team returned to the Hungaroring for in-season testing, with George […]
Lewis wins in Budapest with Valtteri in P5 Lewis claimed his 67th career victory – his fifth in 2018 and sixth at the Hungarian Grand Prix Valtteri came home P5 after running P2 much of the race and defending the position strongly Lewis (213 points) leads the Drivers’ Championship by 24 points from Sebastian Vettel […]
Williams Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin were both forced to retire from the 2018 German Grand Prix Lance started the race from P17 and Sergey started from P12 on the Pirelli soft tyre Lance pitted on lap 29 followed by Sergey a lap later, both for the Pirelli medium tyre The Safety Car was deployed on lap 52 following an incident from Vettel After the rain started to fall, both drivers managed the tricky conditions before eventually pitting for the Intermediate Pirelli tyre (...) -
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At the half-way point in the season, Mercedes-AMG Motorsport have just secured five out of the six podium finishes possible in the two DTM races at Zandvoort.
For the 70th running of the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race, Mercedes-AMG has a presence that is stronger than ever before: the field of 68 cars includes a total of 13 Mercedes-AMG GT3s. Thus, the German performance and sports car brand has the largest entry of all manufacturers. The cars from Affalterbach will be run by five teams with 46 drivers between them to take on the classic endurance race, including some of the highest-ranking names in motorsport. Among the favourites are the four cars of the Mercedes-AMG Performance Teams AKKA ASP, BLACK FALCON, MANN-FILTER (HTP Motorsport) and STRAKKA Racing.
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport today announced a planned transition of its senior technical leadership which will see the baton handed on to the next generation of leaders within the Team for 2019 and beyond.
The 2018 DTM season reaches the halfway mark next weekend at Zandvoort. Lucas Auer looks back on the first half of the season and talks about the challenges posed by Circuit Zandvoort
Mercedes-AMG Motorsport is celebrating the next success in the VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft: in the fourth round of the season at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, Patrick Assenheimer and Christian Hohenadel (both GER) with the #13 Mercedes-AMG GT3 run by AutoArena Motorsport finished sixth overall and thus secured another top ten result in the Green Hell for the performance brand from Affalterbach. Stefan Karg, Fidel Leib and Moritz Oberheim (all GER) secured victory in the SP10 class with the #163 Mercedes-AMG GT4 #163 run by the BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA.
Williams Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer This morning we had some new aerodynamic components including a new rear wing that we were testing. We went through a very thorough programme just to make sure that that was working well.