Mercedes head to Spain cautiously optimistic
May 6 (Apex) Of all the top teams Mercedes has enjoyed perhaps the most erratic season so far, but as the Formula One circus heads to Spain for the first European leg of the world championship there is an air of cautious optimism emanating from the Silver Arrows camp. Chinese GP winner Nico Rosberg declared, [...]
Spanish Grand Prix: Mercedes AMG preview
May 6 (Mercedes AMG Press Release) Formula One’s European season starts next week with the Spanish Grand Prix taking place at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. A familiar testing venue, the 4.655 km circuit plays host to Round Five of the 2012 World Championship. The race has been won from pole in nine of [...]
Rosberg: We do need to improve our car in fast corner
May.4 (Apex) Mercedes racked up 1715 kilometres over the course of three days of testing at Mugello, and one of the overriding conclusions by Nico Rosberg is that the team’s W03 is lacking speed in fast corners of which the Ferrari owned circuit in Tuscany has more than a few. Summing up his final day [...]
Mercedes: The team completed 1715 kms over the three days
May.3 (Mercedes Press Release) Nico Rosberg completed the third and final day of the Mugello test for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team today. Nico and the team spent the day concentrating on further tyre and set-up evaluations with the F1 W03 A second very productive day saw Nico complete 129 laps, equal to over 670 [...]
Schumacher visits Pirelli motor home at Mugello
May 3 (GMM) Seven times world champion Michael Schumacher paid a visit to the Pirelli motor-home at Mugello for the first time since his recent criticism of F1′s sole tyre supplier. Schumacher was heavily critical of the Italian supplier’s 2012 tyres recently in Bahrain, but boss Paul Hembery had revealed that he had yet to [...]
Mercedes indicate no plans to change driver line-up
May 3 (GMM) The Mercedes AMG F1 team has indicated that it has no plans to change its driver lineup any time soon. Breakthrough China GP winner Nico Rosberg admitted this week that he could imagine staying with the German marque for the rest of his F1 career. “I see no reason why he shouldn’t [...]
Mugello Day 2: Mercedes AMG report
May.2 (Mercedes AMG Press Release) Michael Schumacher was at the wheel of the F1 W03 again today as Mercedes AMG Petronas continued the test in Mugello. With dry conditions today following a disrupted first day, the team and Michael had an extremely productive day The team focused on set-up and tyre work, alongside the evaluation [...]
Rosberg looking to commit F1 career to Mercedes
May 2 (GMM) Formula 1′s newest winner has revealed that he has no plans to leave his Mercedes AMG team. After more than a century of grands prix, Nico Rosberg finally broke through with his first race win recently in China. Although pressed harder than in recent seasons by his famous teammate Michael Schumacher in [...]
Mugello Day 1: Mercedes report
May.1 (Mercedes Press Release) Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher were both in action today as the Mercedes AMG Petronas team began this week’s test programme with the F1 W03 car at the Mugello circuit in Italy. With poor weather hitting the circuit, Nico completed 49 laps in the morning session in changeable conditions The team [...]