The Brazilian, whose 2009 season was curtailed by an accident during qualifying for July's Hungarian Grand Prix, has only been able to test older cars so far during his recovery owing to F1's testing restrictions.Īlso on track on Monday are McLaren test driver Gary Paffett, Sauber's Pedro de la Rosa, Robert Kubica in his Renault, Rubens Barrichello for Williams and Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi. He was joined in the group test, held at the Ricardo Tormo circuit and scheduled to last for three days, by Ferrari's Felipe Massa, who was making his first appearance in a competitive F1 car for six months. Rosberg was the first of their drivers to try out the new car on Monday morning, with Schumacher to take over in the afternoon.
Lewis Hamilton 63.The chassis also sports a dorsal fin engine cover, albeit a much smaller one than that seen on cars launched by rivals in recent days. Ownership Mercedes-Benz Group (33.3%) Toto Wolff (33.3%) Ineos (33.3%) Executive management Toto Wolff (CEO & team principal) Ola Källenius (Head of Mercedes-Benz) Current personnel James Allison Peter Bonnington Mike Elliott Ron Meadows Jarrod Murphy John Owen Loïc Serra Andrew Shovlin Geoff Willis Former personnel Bob Bell Loïc Bigois Ross Brawn Aldo Costa Andy Cowell Jock Clear Mark Ellis Nick Fry Norbert Haug Niki Lauda Paddy Lowe James Vowles Current race drivers 44. † Driver failed to finish, but was classified as they had completed >90% of the race distance. ( key) (results in bold indicate pole position results in italics indicate fastest lap) The team finished fourth in the Constructors' Championship, with 214 points and this was the first Mercedes-Benz powered Formula One car to use non- Mobil branded fuel since 1994. At the last race in Abu Dhabi Schumacher spun while trying to overtake Rosberg and was hit by Vitantonio Liuzzi's Force India. Schumacher was penalised for dangerous driving after forcing his former Ferrari team-mate Rubens Barrichello towards the pit wall at 180 mph (290 km/h) in Hungary. He did not score a race win, podium, pole position or fastest lap for the first time since his début season in 1991, and also scored the worst finish of his F1 career at Valencia, where he finished fifteenth. Schumacher's best finishes were three fourth places. Rosberg finished on the podium three times, at Sepang, Shanghai and Silverstone. The team's achievements in their first season did not come close to the results those of Brawn the previous year and of the Mercedes team in 19, with the Mercedes battling Renault for the title of 'best of the rest' behind the leading three teams of Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull. Nico Rosberg finished on the podium at the Malaysian Grand Prix Mercedes's first podium as a works entry since 1955.
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