Grand Prix racing before Formula One (1930s) Mercedes-Benz formerly competed in
Grand Prix motor racing in the 1930s, when the
Silver Arrows dominated the races alongside rivals
Auto Union. Both teams were heavily funded by the
Nazi regime, winning all
European Grand Prix Championships after 1934, of which
Rudolf Caracciola won three for Mercedes-Benz.
Daimler-Benz AG (1954–1955) at the wheel of the
W196 at the
Nürburgring during the
1954 German Grand Prix In 1954, Mercedes-Benz returned to what was now known as
Formula One (a World Championship having been established in 1950) under the leadership of
Alfred Neubauer, using the technologically advanced
Mercedes-Benz W196. The car was run in both the conventional open-wheeled configuration and a streamlined form, which featured covered wheels and wider bodywork.
Juan Manuel Fangio, the 1951 champion, transferred mid-season from
Maserati to Mercedes-Benz for their debut at the
French Grand Prix on 4 July 1954. The team had immediate success and recorded a 1–2 victory with Fangio and
Karl Kling, as well as the fastest lap (
Hans Herrmann). Fangio went on to win three more races in 1954, winning the championship. The success continued into the season, with Mercedes-Benz developing the W196 throughout the year. Mercedes-Benz again dominated the season, At the end of the season, the team withdrew from motor sport, including Formula One.
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team (2010–present) Before the start of the 2010 season Mercedes-Benz's parent company
Daimler AG bought a minority stake (45.1%) in the
Brawn GP team with
Aabar Investments purchasing 30% on 16 November 2009. the team was rebranded as
Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team, and
Mercedes would now compete in the constructors' championship for the first time.
Ross Brawn continued his duties as team principal and the team retained its base and workforce in the
Brackley facility, close to the
Mercedes-Benz Formula One engine plant (formerly Ilmor Engineering) in
Brixworth. The team has a complex history and its entry can be traced back to
Tyrrell Racing, who competed as a constructor from 1970 until 1998, until being bought by British American Tobacco at the end of so its entry could be transferred to the then new constructor
British American Racing (BAR) in . BAR, who had formed a partnership with
Honda, eventually became
Honda Racing F1 Team in 2006 when British American Tobacco withdrew from the sport. It again changed hands in 2008, when Honda withdrew, and was purchased by the team's management, naming it Brawn GP after team principal
Ross Brawn. Brawn used engines from
Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines, and despite running on a low budget,
Jenson Button won six of the first seven races and ultimately the Drivers' Championship, while Brawn won the Constructors' Championship. It was the first time in the sport's sixty-year history that a team won both titles in its maiden season. scored Mercedes's first podium finish as a works team since 1955 at the
2010 Malaysian Grand PrixTeam Mercedes GP hired German drivers
Nico Rosberg, and seven-time world champion
Michael Schumacher, who returned to Formula One after a three-year absence, and
Nick Heidfeld as the test and reserve driver. Of Brawn's 2009 drivers,
Jenson Button signed for
McLaren, whilst
Rubens Barrichello moved to Rosberg's former seat with
Williams team for 2010. With the acquisition of Brawn, the team ended its involvement with
McLaren, parent company
Daimler AG sold back the 40% shareholding in the
McLaren Group, The team's performance during 2010 was not so competitive as under Brawn, with the team behind the leading three teams of
Ferrari,
McLaren, and
Red Bull. Their best results came from Rosberg finishing on the podium three times, scoring third places at
Sepang,
Shanghai, and
Silverstone. Rosberg eventually finished in seventh place, but Schumacher had a disappointing return, being beaten by his teammate and finishing the season without a single race win, podium, pole position, or fastest lap for the first time since his début season in . He also was involved in a controversy in
Hungary after nearly squeezing former Ferrari teammate
Rubens Barrichello into the wall at . Ultimately, the team finished fourth in the Constructors' Championship, with 214 points. Prior to the start of the 2011 season, Daimler and Aabar purchased the remaining 24.9% stake owned by the team management in February 2011. Using the new MGP W02, the ended when Schumacher and Rosberg both retired due to crash damage on laps 19 and 22 respectively. In
Malaysia, Rosberg qualified ninth and Schumacher again failed to make Q3, qualifying eleventh. Schumacher scored the team's first points of the season with a ninth-place finish, whereas Rosberg had a quiet race and finished twelfth. In
China, Rosberg and Schumacher showed strong form, with Rosberg finishing fifth as well as leading fourteen laps during the race, while Schumacher ended the race in eighth place. Rosberg added another fifth place in
Turkey, while in
Spain, Schumacher finished in sixth place, ahead of Rosberg. After scoring no points at the , Schumacher equalled his best finish for the team in
Canada, finishing fourth after running as high as second. In
Valencia, Rosberg finished seventh, and Schumacher seventeenth, after contact with
Vitaly Petrov. Rosberg and Schumacher both finished in the points at the following two races in
Great Britain and
Germany. Gearbox issues stopped Schumacher from scoring at the , but Rosberg managed to finish in ninth place. At the , Schumacher moved from the back of the grid – after losing a wheel in qualifying – to finish fifth, while Rosberg finished sixth, having led the race in its early stages. Again, the team finished fourth in the Constructors' Championship just as in 2010, with 165 points with no wins, podiums, or poles. at the
2012 Monaco Grand Prix For 2012, the team removed the
GP from their name and added the name of
AMG, the high performance brand of Daimler AG, to their title. The team would officially get the designation
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team. At the start of the season Mercedes was the subject of protest over the use of a "radical" rear wing concept on the
Mercedes F1 W03 racing car, which was not settled until the third race in China when the stewards unanimously rejected the protest. At the third race of the season in
China, Rosberg took the team's first pole position as a works team since Fangio in ; Schumacher finished the session third, but moved up to second after a grid penalty for
McLaren team's
Lewis Hamilton. The team secured its first win in
57 years when Nico Rosberg finished first in the
2012 Chinese Grand Prix. This marked also the first win for a German driver driving a German car in
Formula 1 history. At the
2012 Monaco Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher set the fastest time in qualifying, but started sixth after a five-place grid penalty was imposed for having caused an avoidable collision with Bruno Senna during the
Spanish Grand Prix, the previous round. In addition to that, Rosberg became the first German driver to win a
Grand Prix driving a German vehicle since
Hermann Lang's victory at the
1939 Swiss Grand Prix. On 28 September 2012, it was announced that McLaren driver
Lewis Hamilton would join the Mercedes team from the season onwards, having signed a three-year deal to partner Nico Rosberg in the team. In January 2013, Toto Wolff became an executive director of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, with his business partner Rene Berger becoming non-executive director. In addition to joining the team as managing partner, he also acquired 30% of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd, with a further 10% held by Niki Lauda, chairman of the board, and 60% by the parent company. Wolff took over the co-ordination of all Mercedes-Benz motorsport activities, a responsibility previously held by
Norbert Haug. The following season on 26 May 2013,
Nico Rosberg capitalised on a pole position to award the team its first win of 2013 at the
Monaco Grand Prix.
Paddy Lowe moved to the team as executive director on 3 June 2013. Mercedes then went on to take third place in the
Canadian Grand Prix courtesy of Hamilton, followed by another win for Rosberg at the
British Grand Prix after the team took 1–2 in qualifying. The team then celebrated their third win of the season after Hamilton took his first victory for the team at the
Hungarian Grand Prix, resulting in second place behind Red Bull Racing in the Constructors' Championship.
Eight consecutive Constructors' titles (2014–2021) Both drivers were retained for . Rosberg won the first race of the season in
Australia, then in
Malaysia, Hamilton completed a grand slam – leading every lap from pole position, with the fastest race lap – while Rosberg completed a 1–2 finish for the team; it ended Hamilton's nine race streak without a podium finish, and was the first 1–2 finish by Mercedes as a works team since the
1955 Italian Grand Prix. The team repeated the result at the
Bahrain, the
Chinese, and the
Spanish Grands Prix, while Rosberg and Hamilton finished 1–2 respectively at the
Monaco and
Austrian Grands Prix. At the , Rosberg became the first German driver driving a German vehicle to win the
German Grand Prix since it was achieved by
Rudolf Caracciola and Mercedes-Benz at the
1939 German Grand Prix. At the
Russian Grand Prix the team won their first Constructors' Championship as a works team. Hamilton won the last race of the season, held in
Abu Dhabi. He finished the season 67 points ahead of Rosberg, clinching the World Drivers' Championship. The team finished the 2014 season 296 points ahead of their closest rival
Red Bull Racing in the World Constructors' Championship standings. With 18 pole positions, 16 wins and 11 1–2s out of 19 races, Mercedes dominated this first year of the V6 turbo era. For their 16 race victories, the average winning margin to the nearest non-Mercedes competitor was 23.2 seconds. For the season, the team retained both Hamilton and Rosberg. At the
2015 Russian Grand Prix the team won their second Constructors' Championship as a works team and Hamilton won his second consecutive Drivers' Championship at the
2015 United States Grand Prix, finishing 59 points ahead of Rosberg. Mercedes continued their domination in this second year of the V6 turbo era, improving on their impressive numbers from 2014 with 18 pole positions, 16 wins and 12 1–2s in 19 races. Of their 16 race victories, the average winning margin to the nearest non-Mercedes competitor was 19.7 seconds, down from 23.2 seconds in 2014. In the season, Mercedes won the Constructors' Championship for the third consecutive season, winning 19 of the 21 races held, while securing 20 poles (the highest percentage ever in a single season of F1 at 95.2%) and 8 1–2s. The average winning gap to the nearest non-Mercedes driver dropped to 14.6 seconds. Rosberg won his only Drivers' Championship, finishing 5 points ahead of Hamilton, before announcing his retirement shortly after winning the title. On 10 January 2017, Mercedes announced that Executive Director Paddy Lowe had left the team, and entered a period of
garden leave. On 16 January 2017,
Valtteri Bottas was announced as Rosberg's replacement for the season and British
GP3 driver
George Russell was incorporated into the junior team. On 22 October 2017, Mercedes won the Constructors' Championship for the fourth consecutive time. One week later,
Lewis Hamilton became the first British driver to win four world championships. Mercedes finished the 2017 season with 12 wins out of 20 races, 15 poles, 4 1–2s and an average winning margin to the nearest non-Mercedes driver of 13.1 seconds. |leftFor the
2018 season the team retained both Hamilton and Bottas. The team clinched their fifth straight constructors' title at the
penultimate race of the season in Brazil after a win for Hamilton. In the 2018 season, Mercedes won 11 races (all for Hamilton) out of 21 races, took 10 fastest laps (three for Hamilton and seven for Bottas), 13 pole positions (eleven for Hamilton and two for Bottas), and four 1–2 finishes. This made Mercedes only the second team in the history in F1 to achieve the feat of winning 5 drivers' and constructors' titles in a row, after
Ferrari did so between
2000 and
2004. For the
2019 season, the team again retained both Hamilton and Bottas. In the
opening race, both drivers locked out the front row with Hamilton taking pole position. Bottas overtook Hamilton at the start and took his first victory since the
2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with Hamilton managing to give the team a 1–2 finish after fending off
Red Bull's Max Verstappen. The team continued the strong performance through the first half of the season. By the summer break, Mercedes had won 10 out of 12 races with Hamilton taking 8 victories to Bottas' 2, securing 1–2 finishes at the first 5 races of the season. The team would go on to take both the drivers and constructors titles for the sixth consecutive year. The team debuted their "Dual-Axis-Steering" system during pre-season testing for the season. This allows the driver to change the
toe of the front wheels by pushing or pulling on the steering wheel. This allows the driver to optimise the car for better tyre warming on the straights with zero toe, or better mechanical grip in the corners with positive toe. The system was allowed for the 2020 season, but has been made illegal for
2021. The team would go on to win both the drivers and constructors championships. Before the penultimate round of the season, the
2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, Hamilton was forced to sit the race out following a positive
coronavirus test, with Williams driver and Mercedes junior
George Russell replacing him. after a victory at the
2021 British Grand Prix For
2021, the team retained the same driver line-up for a fifth straight season. The team failed to win the drivers' championship for the first time in the V6 turbo-hybrid era, with Hamilton being overtaken by title rival
Max Verstappen on the last lap of the season-ending
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after a controversial safety car restart. Hamilton had comfortably led the race and been on course for his eighth title before a late safety car caused by
Nicholas Latifi's crash on Turn 14. The actions of
FIA race director
Michael Masi surrounding the controversial procedures used during the late safety car caused Mercedes to file an intention to appeal the results of that race, though this was later withdrawn. Hamilton finished second in the championship, eight points behind champion Verstappen, with Bottas third in the standings in his final season with the team. The team took the constructors' title for a record-extending eighth consecutive season.
Struggling with ground effect (2022–2024) driving the
Mercedes W13 at the
2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix Mercedes junior driver,
George Russell replaced Bottas to partner Hamilton for
2022. 2022 saw major rule changes, which reintroduced
ground effect. Mercedes revealed a radical design with what was dubbed 'zero-pods'. The radical design did not pay dividends, as the team struggled to understand and unlock its full potential. Additionally, the car suffered from aggressive
porpoising, the porpoising was significantly reduced and "solved" ahead of the
Canadian Grand Prix. Despite their performance struggles, Mercedes's reliability was "amazing", meaning their only three retirements of the season came at the
British Grand Prix, where Russell was involved in a crash with
Zhou Guanyu and
Pierre Gasly, the
Belgian Grand Prix, where Hamilton was involved in a crash with
Fernando Alonso, and the
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where Hamilton suffered a mechanical failure, but was still classified 18th. The team regularly appeared on the podium. At the
French Grand Prix, Hamilton finished second while Russell finished third, marking the team's first double podium of the season. Russell achieved his first ever
pole position, and Mercedes's first of the season, at the
Hungarian Grand Prix. Russell achieved his first Formula One win, and Mercedes's first of the season, along with Hamilton coming in second, at the
São Paulo Grand Prix. Mercedes finished the 2022 season third in the Constructors' Championship with the one win at São Paulo marking their best result of the season. Russell finished 4th in the Drivers' Championship having scored the win in Brazil plus a pole position in Hungary. Hamilton finished 6th in the Drivers' Championship marking the first time in his career he finished outside the top 5, with 2022 also marking the first time Hamilton had failed to score a pole position or Grand Prix win during a season. After continuing to struggle with their radical "zero-pods" design in the 2023 season, Mercedes opted to replace Technical Director
Mike Elliott with
James Allison, with Elliott becoming Chief Technical Officer. This change occurred on 21 April 2023. Mercedes finished 2023 second in the Constructors' Championship, 3 points ahead of Ferrari. The season however still was disappointing as the team failed to secure a win for the first time since
2011. The closest the team came to winning was at the
United States Grand Prix where Hamilton finished 0.3 seconds behind World Champion Max Verstappen before he was disqualified for his rear skid blocks being worn below the limit. Hamilton finished 2023 third in the Drivers' Championship with 6 podiums, with the highlight of his season being breaking the record for the most pole positions at a single circuit after he took his 9th pole at the
Hungaroring during the
Hungarian Grand Prix. Russell had a miserable season finishing 8th in the Drivers' Championship with 2 podiums. The team admitted the W15 will have a completely different concept for the
2024 season with their intentions to be trying to catch up to pace setters
Red Bull for their hope of claiming the championship or fighting for wins. Mercedes secured consecutive victories at the
Austrian and
British Grands Prix, the latter marking Hamilton's first victory since 2021 and breaking
Michael Schumacher's record of most victories at a single circuit. Mercedes secured two more wins at the
Belgian (inherited by Hamilton for his last win with the team after Russell was disqualified) and
Las Vegas Grands Prix to finish fourth in the Constructors' Championship. In the Drivers' Championship, Russell finished sixth, ahead of the departing Hamilton in seventh.
Post–Lewis Hamilton era and returning to championship contention (2025–present) On 1 February 2024, Mercedes confirmed Hamilton would leave the team after 12 years, with the seven-time champion signing a multi-year contract to drive for
Ferrari from
2025 onwards after he activated an exit clause in his contract. Mercedes junior driver
Kimi Antonelli was announced as his replacement on 31 August 2024. On 19 December 2024, Bottas was announced to be rejoining the team as a reserve driver. Bottas left Mercedes ahead of the season to join the new
Cadillac team. Outside of an off weekend in
Monaco, Russell consistently finished in the points and won in
Canada and
Singapore, ultimately tying his best finish of fourth in 2022 in the Drivers' Championship, while Antonelli, who obtained his maiden podium in Canada, finished in seventh. Mercedes overall finished in second in the Constructors' Championship. In 2025, Wolff sold a portion of his shareholding to
George Kurtz, the CEO and founder of cybersecurity firm
CrowdStrike, making Kurtz a co‑owner of the team. Kurtz also joined the team's strategic steering committee and was appointed technology advisor, serving alongside Wolff, Mercedes-Benz chairman Ola Källenius, and INEOS chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Wolff remains team principal and CEO. and bookies predicted that Mercedes would have a strong season amidst new regulations. The
Mercedes W17 was indeed dominant in the first two races it has entered, both times securing 1-2 finishes; Russell won ahead of Antonelli at the after surviving an early attack from the
Ferraris of Hamilton and
Charles Leclerc, he won the
Chinese sprint ahead of both Ferraris after Antonelli hit early trouble, and Antonelli claimed his maiden win ahead of Russell and Hamilton in the Grand Prix. Antonelli then became the youngest driver in F1 history to lead the World Championship after his victory in the
Japanese Grand Prix.
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