The rise and fall of Mercedes: How did the company rule Formula One and what caused its empire to fall?
Mercedes did not conclude the 2023 Formula One season with a victory, a first since 2011.
In twelve years, this was the first time the team had failed to reach the top step of the podium.
It may surprise you to learn that Lewis Hamilton, the team’s top driver, was on his way to taking home his eighth world championship in the 2021 Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix not too long ago.
In a fairly terrible turn of events, the German team’s chances of winning that race changed, and they haven’t been successful since.
The rules were modified in twoAlthough the team placed second in the constructors’ championship at the end of the season, there is only We’ll follow that journey in this feature and learn what caused the supremacy and subsequent collapse.
Mercedes’s ascent and decline what made it the dominant? Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff weren’t even on the Mercedes team when the groundwork for their supremacy was established.
Having said that, the German team became the F1 standard in 2014, surpassing Red Bull as the top team.Beginning the 2014 Formula One season, Red Bull was the reigning champion that had ruled the competition from 2010 to 2013.
Mercedes’s revised rules and predetermined history completely flipped the formbook.How did that come about? How did the F1 debuting squad fare?
Mercedes had the ideal combination at the wheel to establish the team’s foundation in Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher.Create a fantastic team.
The amount of important players Mercedes had on the squad by the time the 2014 season arrived would surprise a lot of people. With the full support of the German brand, Ross Brawn assembled a super team to create the ultimate championship-winning vehicle.
The primary players that produced that championship-winning car were those that Brawn himself left the organization before 2014, when Toto Wolff took control.
Bob Bell (led the charge to end Ferrari’s hegemony and won with Renault in the 2005–06 season)Aldo Costa (a member of the dominant Ferrari dream team)Adrian Newey’s understudy, Geoff Willis.
