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Mittwoch, 22.Mai 2013Agreement has been reached between MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes for Paddy Lowe to join the team on 3 June.
Paddy will strengthen MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS in the role of Executive Director (Technical) and will work closely with Team Principal, Ross Brawn; Executive Director (Business), Toto Wolff; and the team’s senior technical management. As [...]
24-Hours of Nürburgring: Victory for Black Falcon AMG customer team: First overall victory for Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
Dienstag, 21.Mai 2013Mercedes-Benz and AMG secured yesterday the first overall win in the 24-Hours of Nürburgring.
Bearing starting number 9, Black Falcon with Bernd Schneider (Germany), Jeroen Bleekemolen (Netherlands), Sean Edwards (GB) and Nicki Thiim (Denmark) went from sixth position on the grid to finish the legendary endurance race 2:39 minutes ahead of the second placed car [...]
DTM Race in Brands Hatch – Wickens finished third
Sonntag, 19.Mai 2013Robert Wickens (STIHL Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) finished third in the second race of the season at the historic Brands Hatch circuit in Kent.
The Mercedes-Benz Junior Team member thus claimed his maiden podium after contesting 13 races in the world’s most popular touring car series. Over the course of the 98 race laps, the Canadian [...]
DTM Qualifying: Round 2, Brands Hatch
Samstag, 18.Mai 2013Two weeks after the season opener at Hockenheim, the historic Brands Hatch track in Kent plays host to the DTM. Gary Paffett (EURONICS Mercedes AMG C-Coupé), who is contesting his home race, will be starting from twelfth on the grid.
The Englishman missed out by 36 thousandths on the third segment of qualifying after posting [...]
F1 GP of Spain 2013 – Disappointing race for Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton
Sonntag, 12.Mai 2013Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton finished the Spanish Grand Prix in sixth and 12th places today.
Nico salvaged a sixth-place finish after starting from pole running an option/prime/prime/prime three-stop strategy. Lewis was forced to convert to a four-stop strategy during the race and finished outside the points in twelfth position. During his [...]
2013 Spanish Grand Prix – Qualifying: First row for Mercedes AMG
Samstag, 11.Mai 2013Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton locked out the front row of the grid in Barcelona today for MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS.
Nico scored his second consecutive pole position and the team’s third in a row at the Circuit de Catalunya this afternoon. With Lewis in second, both Mercedes will start from the front [...]
Test comparison between Formula 1 and Mercedes-AMG cars driven by Nico Rosberg, Bernd Schneider, Karl Wendlinger and Bernd Mayländer
Donnerstag, 9.Mai 2013As part of the programme for the 24-hour race on 19th May 2013, Mercedes-Benz will put on a special event highlight for fans at the Nürburgring:
As part of a high-performance demonstration, four Mercedes-AMG vehicles will go up against Michael Schumacher in a Formula 1 Silver Arrow. The vehicles will start at different times in front [...]
DTM Race: Round 1, Hockenheim I
Sonntag, 5.Mai 2013In the DTM season opener at Hockenheim, Christian Vietoris (DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) claimed his maiden DTM podium.
Vietoris started on the prime tyres from third on the grid, completing his mandatory pit stops on Laps 6 and 33. In the closing stage of the race, he overtook fellow Mercedes driver Gary Paffett (EURONICS Mercedes [...]
DTM Qualifying: Round 1, Hockenheim I
Samstag, 4.Mai 2013In the first qualifying of the new season, Mercedes-Benz Junior Team members Christian Vietoris (DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) and Robert Wickens (STIHL Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) booked the second row of the grid. Five of the six Mercedes-Benz drivers qualified in the Top Ten, including DTM rookies Pascal Wehrlein and Daniel Juncadella.
Vietoris posted the third-fastest lap [...]
DTM 2013 season-opener at Hockenheim
Freitag, 3.Mai 2013The first weekend in May (4th-5th May 2013) marks the start of the new season at Hockenheim and is the home fixture for Mercedes-Benz, featuring new drivers, a new schedule and new sponsors.
The drivers: This year, the brand with the three-pointed star has quite consciously taken the decision to field a young squad of drivers. [...]
Michael Schumacher to drive 2011 Formula 1 Silver Arrow on Nürburgring Nordschleife
Montag, 29.April 2013On Sunday 19th May 2013 before the start of the 24-hour race around the Nürburgring, seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher will take to the track.
Schumacher will post a demonstration lap on the Nürburgring’s legendary Nordschleife in a MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS F1 W02 to say ‘thank you’ to his fans for their years [...]
MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS links up with Tata Communications
Freitag, 26.April 2013MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS is pleased to confirm a new partnership with Tata Communications which will see the delivery of world-class trackside connectivity for the team at all Formula One race locations using the Tata Communications global network.
With the new partnership, Tata Communications becomes the ‘Official Managed Connectivity Supplier’ to the team. Tata Communications, a [...]
Bahrain Grand Prix 2013
Sonntag, 21.April 2013Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg finished the Bahrain Grand Prix in fifth and ninth places today after battling drives, however both cars struggled badly when temperatures were at their highest in the early stages of the race.
Lewis completed a three-stop strategy to finish in fifth place after starting ninth. He stopped [...]
2013 Chinese Grand Prix – Hamilton on Podium
Sonntag, 14.April 2013Lewis Hamilton achieved his second successive podium for MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS with a battling third placed finish at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai today.
Lewis started from pole and completed a three-stop option/prime/prime/prime strategy, stopping on laps 5, 21 and 37. Nico was following the same strategy and had stopped on [...]
2013 Chinese Grand Prix: Qualifying – Hamilton on pole position
Samstag, 13.April 2013Lewis Hamilton secured his first pole position for MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS at the Shanghai International Circuit today. Team-mate Nico Rosberg qualified in fourth place and will start from the second row of the grid.
Both drivers completed just one run on the soft compound option tyre in each of three qualifying sessions. [...]
Seasonal outlook 2013 – From the US to Japan – SLS AMG GT3 starts on five continents
Montag, 1.April 2013The customer sports program of Mercedes-AMG will take an active part in the 2013 racing year all over the globe. The SLS AMG GT3 will moreover start in the US for the first time.
In the 2013 motorsports season, the race version of the gullwing car will take part in more than 22 race series [...]
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