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The Mercedes F1 team has announced a new partnership with fan and motor provider ebm-papst. ebm-papst has developed off-board cooling solutions for the team's racing cars, in addition to working closely with the team to improve the garage working environment at Grand Prix venues through custom-built heat extraction and cooling solutions which will be introduced later in the 2014 season.
I totally agree. Other big teams will only bulk up from this point on to challenge Mercedes-AMG. Red Bull is doing all that it can to turn things around while McLaren and Ferrari are desperate to win ASAP. I think Mercedes-AMG will see a fair amount of staff loss through natural attrition and voluntary departure anyway with new teams coming into F1, no need for the team to start firing people now.mclaren_mircea wrote:Mercedes are making a mistake if they start to shed staff, at least from Brackley, because here they have only 612 people. Ferrari have +700, Mclaren and Red Bull have between 640-700. It is normal that they will release some people from Brixworth because here they needed extra people to meet the challanges with the turbo engine, but no from Brackley, I repeat, 612 people are not to much. And Ferrari are waiting like sharks to get good people from Brackley
Thats the combined staff of the Engine (HPP) and the Chasis ( Brackley race team).De Jokke wrote:Don't they have the double: 1250 people?
http://www.f1today.net/es/noticias/merc ... e-f1-staff
So could be another big jump in performance in Barcelona.Q: (Luis Fernando Ramos - Racing Magazine) Nico, all the other teams have set their sights on the Barcelona race as their best chance to improve their performance with the novelties on their cars, so how confident is Mercedes that the things you're going to bring to Barcelona will keep the gap or maybe even extend the gap you have to the other teams?
NR: Hopefully, more than all the other teams; we want to go to Barcelona with the biggest step, that's our ambition. Barcelona is a chance for us to extend the advantage that we have and that's the approach that we have going to Barcelona, 100 percent.
Wow nico is really muggin him. Getting him straight in the eye.gray41 wrote:http://gpupdate2.ed5.nl/large/242055.jpg
http://gpupdate2.ed5.nl/large/242067.jpg
=D> Great job team.
That how it was with massa, webber, and rubens. They mostly can keep up, but in the details fall short.Alexgtt wrote:Thing is I don't think Nico is another Massa, Webber, Rubens. If you look at the performances he's properly challenging speed wise were those guys did occasionally but mostly lacked that little edge which nearly always stuffed them down the order. As long as Merc keep giving both guys 100% the same it'll be like this all season and Nico will win a few more races and push Lewis all the way.
If it goes on like this all season he'd be mad to jump ship and Merc won't be looking anywhere for a better driver line up.
Details like telemetry not working, wrong display, wrong strategy and other driver cutting across. Couple of routine wins in 20s+ dominant car and fairy-tales about drivers walking on water and mere mortals are resurfacing. Abu-Dhabi, India and several other mediocre performances from previous seasons (including many, many bad starts - those "details" you're talking about) are already forgotten. Lack of competition makes everything easier, Hamilton can have as bad a race as those mentioned he'd still win by 15+ s and nobody would even notice (same for Rosberg and his). There were two semi-proper races for driver comparison (Malaysia and Bahrain) and only one dry qualifying.Rikhart wrote:That how it was with massa, webber, and rubens. They mostly can keep up, but in the details fall short.Alexgtt wrote:Thing is I don't think Nico is another Massa, Webber, Rubens. If you look at the performances he's properly challenging speed wise were those guys did occasionally but mostly lacked that little edge which nearly always stuffed them down the order. As long as Merc keep giving both guys 100% the same it'll be like this all season and Nico will win a few more races and push Lewis all the way.
If it goes on like this all season he'd be mad to jump ship and Merc won't be looking anywhere for a better driver line up.
Well, ofcourse reliability plays a big role into this but still regarding what Marko said... well it's just classic Marko, what did you expect?AMG.Tzan wrote:Somehting a bit irrelevant!
Marko: Vettel 'better than Hamilton and Rosberg combined' (November 2013 - End of 2013 Championship)
April 2014 - Both Rosberg and Hamilton have more points alone than RedBull as a team, 4 races into the season! Lets see what Dr Helmut Marko has to say about this!
