Mercedes Debates Value Of F1 Involvement - May Exit After 2009

Sad news but F1 needs a serious overhaul if they plan on having a future. I've been watching f1 since 1992 and to be frank, I'm tired of it. Eccelstone and Mosely have turned F1 into a nothing more than a high-speed parade.

Eccelstone and Mosely have got to go. They have killed the series.

Look at the bright side of things. Toyota make ACTUALLY have a chance to win something in F1 now.

If your looking at profit, I think Mercedes-Benz is perhaps the most profitable company participating in formula 1. They are partnered with Mclaren, who have won last year and were hugely successful the year before.They sell there engines to Brawn and Force India, which is most likely a great source of cash..Brawn-Mercedes is also the leader this year..Which is great publicity..So how does this article make sense?

Really, what is Mercedes involvement in F1, they provide money but their Formula 1 engines are engineered in Northamptonshire, England. From a technical point of view they have little in common with German maker of passanger cars Mercedes which we can buy.

Unlike other car manufacturers participating in F1 such as Ferrari, BMW, Renault, Honda and Toyota, Mercedes had no knowledge in high-revving engines. All they did in their "involvement" in F1 is to buy a majority share holding in Ilmor and slap on a Mercedes badge on Ilmor's F1 engines. As long as Ilmor stays (after some other interested party buys it up from Mercedes), Mercedes can exit F1 and nothing will really change.

"Mercedes had no knowledge in high-revving engines."


Wow, great insight here from somebody who works in the MB engine department!

What are you smoking? You have obviously zero knowledge of MB's motorsport heritage from the late 19th century until now. Mercedes knows damn well how to make a high-revving engine - they just don't produce them for their street-legal cars because it's not part of the company philosophy. But in various motorsport competitions where they have participated they have used high-revving engines with great success.

If they knew it damn well then why did they have to buy Ilmor and slap their logo onto Ilmor's engines instead of designing their own?

They still have DTM. Oh wait, they are loosing there too.

All the biggest companies are leaving the the F1 circuit. It's quite sad to put a cap on a sport thats also dedicated to R&D. While most of the technology from F1 doesn't trickle down to the mainstream cars right away, they will be used somehow later on in the years following. It's not always about the cars but the drivers.

There is nothing wrong with MB engines. The heavy dreamed about Pagani Zonda F uses an MB engine and listen to it and look at the performance.