Mercedes set to reveal future F1 plans

Mercedes-Benz is to announce its plans for the future of Formula 1 in a press conference today, with the German car maker set to confirm its increased involvement at Brawn.

The manufacturer will hold a press conference with Dr, Dieter Zetsche, head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, as well as motorsport chief Norbert Haug.

It is believed Mercedes will announce it is buying into the Brawn GP team, confirming reports that first appeared in September this year.

The Brackley-based squad has used Mercedes engines this season to win both the drivers' and the constructors' championships.

Mercedes is also set to reveal plans about its shareholding at the McLaren team, of which the parent company Daimler owns a 40 per cent stake.

The German car maker is expected to confirm it will remain as engine supplier for McLaren for the long term.

SOURCE: Autosport

Well McLaren will be happy that they'll keep the Mercedes engines (until 2015), but Brawn GP, or Mercedes as they'll become known as, will be the Mercedes A-team. McLaren will no longer be the silver arrows. BBC are suggesting that Nico Rosberg and Nick Heidfeld could be the Mercedes lineup, while McLaren will take Jenson Button on board. Looks like Jenson doesn't have much of a say anyway, apparently Mercedes want an all-German team. We'll hear much more soon I think.

I found the reason I never post news items. Gamespot.

I hope this take-over means that McLaren gets to go back to Red-White liveries of yesteryear.

I found the reason I never post news items. Gamespot.

I hope this take-over means that McLaren gets to go back to Red-White liveries of yesteryear.

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Either that or they'll take on a heavily sponsorship based colour scheme. The Mercedes team will be the ones in silver from now on it would seem. It will certainly take some getting used to after all these years of McLaren-Mercedes partnership.

EDIT: In fact, McLaren will be keeping their current livery according to this press release on the McLaren website. Two silver teams then.

Schumacher to quit Ferrari F1 role for Mercedes GP seat?

Reports are suggesting that record-breaking multiple world champion Michael Schumacher is to relinquish his F1 duties at Ferrari - possibly, it has been speculated, for one final fling with the newly-renamed Mercedes Grand Prix According to reports in the media, Michael Schumacher's recently-renewed contract with Ferrari may not include any F1 duties - leading to wild speculation that the legendary record-breaking multiple world champion could be the 'surprise' to whom Norbert Haug refers in the new Mercedes Grand Prix driver line-up.

Spanish newspaper Diario AS claims that the new deal Schumacher inked with Ferrari back in September - due to run until the end of 2012 - will focus primarily on the Scuderia's road car development, with the German relinquishing his advisory role on the F1 side.

That, allied to Mercedes-Benz Motorsport Vice-President Haug's enigmatic declaration that there could be some 'surprises' in the driver line-up of the newly-rebranded Mercedes Grand Prix outfit in 2010 - what was in 2009 Brawn GP - has prompted some to wonder whether Schumacher could be the mystery driver to join ex-Williams F1 ace Nico Rosberg in an all-German, Silver Arrows 'super team' next year.

Though now into his fifth decade and with nothing left to prove, the man from Kerpen has repeatedly admitted that his test outing ahead of his ultimately abortive comeback in-place of the injured Felipe Massa earlier in the summer has whetted his appetite for a return to active competition after three years out of the cockpit.

With Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo's desire for third cars to be legalised in 2010 looking unlikely in the extreme - and with Schumacher having effectively sprung to prominence with Mercedes in sportscars back at the turn of the 1990s - is there time for one last chapter to be written in the incredible career of the seven-time F1 World Champion, with a return full circle from Maranello to Stuttgart for one final fling..?

SOURCE: Crash.net

ED: The chances of this being true are pretty slim, but i thought i'd post it just to give someone else some false hope, still it could happen.