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Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg has said the team have made a ‘real turnaround’. The team put on a dismal display last time out in Valencia, but they have bounced back to score a podium position with their young driver. “I had a good start today and was happy to be up to fourth place by [...]

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Mercedes GP were looking for a good weekend at Silverstone after dismal qualifying and race displays in Valencia. After qualifying 15th and 12th in Valencia their display in Britain was much better, much to the relief of Nico Rosberg. “I’m really pleased with fifth place today and it shows good progress after being so far [...]

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Nico Rosberg (6th, 5th) “It’s been a decent start today and we have been able to get on top of many of our problems from Valencia. We achieved some good set-up work to optimise the aero package. It’s not easy to understand and find the optimum so it was good to make progress there and [...]

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The British Grand Prix next Sunday marks one of two home Grands Prix in quick succession for the Mercedes GP team, whos Brackley base is just 8 miles from the Silverstone circuit. Nico Rosberg praised the track, saying ‘every driver loves to race there’: “Silverstone is a great circuit and one of those tracks which [...]

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There are fascinating quotes from Nico Rosberg, who has labelled Mercedes GP’s car; the W01 a ‘disaster’. Rosberg told the Cologne Express: “The problem with the tyres is well known within the team. For weeks, we have said we would move forward but nothing happened – in fact we’re going backwards. If one is twelfth [...]

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Yesterday in Kuala Lumpur the Petronas Pit Pulse took place, where Mercedes GP put on F1 demonstrations courtesy of their title sponsor. The 2010 Mercedes GP MGP W01 was on show being driven by Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher, and Juan Manuel Fangio’s beautiful 1954 championship-winning Silver Arrow was driven by Nick Heidfeld. Also on [...]

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Mercedes GP are in the perfect position on paper, taking over the World Champions, and having the 7 time champ Michael Schumacher, and young hot-prospect Nico Rosberg drive for them. However, despite the team starting work on their 2010 car early on last season, Schumacher has admitted that all may not have been going to [...]

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Today in Stuttgart at the Mercedes-Benz Museum, the new Mercedes GP F1 livery was revealed, on last year’s Brawn GP car. Over 600 guests, including 200 media representatives and 200 Mercedes-Benz employees were present. The new silver and green livery creates a true marriage between the heritage of the Silver Arrows and the team’s title [...]

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According to the German newspaper Bild, Mercedes are going to launch their 2010 car on January 25th at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Unterturkheim, Stuttgart. It also says that the chassis will be named Mercedes-Petronas RB1, with RB being the initials of team boss Ross Brawn. They also report that the returning Michael Schumacher will not [...]

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German newspaper Bild is reporting that Mercedes will launch its car at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Unterturkheim, Stuttgart. They also report Schumacher would not drive the car until an official test on February 10 in Jerez, meaning Nico Rosberg will drive the car first. Plans for a joint car launch were scrapped because it was [...]

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