Team: Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One TeamMercedes F1

Location: England and Germany
Years in F1: 2010 to Present
Team championships: 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019, 2020
Drivers Championships:1954, 1955, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Grand Prix victories: 125
Races started: 271
Pole positions: 136

Mercedes team history

Mercedes involvement in Formula 1 started in the 1930's with its successful "Silver Arrow" cars. During the early 1950's Mercedes ran cars, with Fangio winning the Drivers Championship in 1954 and 1955, though not as a constructor. The company then withdrew from Formula 1. Mercedes returned to F1 in the early 1990's supplying engines to Sauber and then in 1995 they started supplying engines to McLaren. Between 1995 and 2009 Mercedes powered McLaren's won three drivers and one constructors championships. In 2009 Mercedes supplied engines to the new Brawn GP team who won both the drivers and constructors championships. At the end of 2009 Mercedes bought a controlling stake in Brawn GP to run the team under the Mercedes name for 2010 and sold their stake in McLaren and they also signed Michael Schumacher out of retirement to race for them. They signed Lewis Hamilton for the 2013 season. With the change in regulations and the introduction of the turbo-hybrid engines in 2014 Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes dominated both the drivers and the constructors championships.

Previous seasons

2024

Position:
Points:
Race wins:
Lewis Hamilton
George Russell

2023

Position: 2
Points: 409
Race wins: 0
Lewis Hamilton 3rd 234 points
George Russell 8th 175 points
For 2023 Mercedes managed to resolve some of the problems of the previous year with Lewis Hamilton taking 6 podium finishes but George Russell was quick at times but was less consistent.

2022

Position: 3
Points: 515
Race wins: 1
Lewis Hamilton 6th 240 points
George Russell 4th 275 points
The Mercedes FW13 had all sorts of problems that Lewis Hamilton struggled with most of the season, but George Russell in his first season in a competitive car outscored his more more experienced team mate. Mercedes failed to cope with the rule changes introduced this year which meant their car was slower than the Red Bull and the Ferrari for the firt time in the hybrid era.

2021

Position: 1
Points: 613.5
Lewis Hamilton 2nd 387.5 points
Valtteri Bottas 3rd 226 points
Mercedes won their 8th consecutive constructors championship but Lewis Hamilton finished second to Max Verstappen in a controversial last lap of the last race of the season

2020

Position: 1
Points: 573
Lewis Hamilton 1st 347 points
Valtteri Bottas 2nd 223 points
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes won their 7th consecutive drivers and constructors championships. Lewis Hamiton was the dominant driver all season being consistently ahead of team mate Valtteri Bottas.

2019

Position: 1
Points: 739
Lewis Hamilton 1st 413 points
Valtteri Bottas 2nd 326 points
The team was again dominant winning both the drivers and constructors championship for the sixth consecutive year.

2018

Position 1
Points 655
Lewis Hamilton 1st 408 points
Valtteri Bottas 5th 247 points
Mercedes again won both the constructors and drivers championship in 2018, with Lewis Hamilton being the dominant driver through the season. Ferrari were much closer than in the previous season and potentially could have beaten Mercedes were it not for mistakes by Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel.

2017

Position: 1
Points: 668
Lewis Hamilton 1st 363 points
Valtteri Bottas 3rd 305 points
The 2017 season was dominated by Lewis Hamilton with Valteri Bottas coming third to Sebastian Vettel in a Ferrari.

2016

Position: 1
Points: 765
Lewis Hamilton 2nd 380points
Nico Rosberg 1st 385 points
Mercedes again dominated the 2016 season with the drivers championship being fought out between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, with Nico Resberg finally coming out on top. Having won the title he then quit Formula 1.

2015

Position: 1
Points: 703
Lewis Hamilton 1st 381 points
Nico Rosberg 2nd 322 points
Mercedes dominated the 2015 season winnng the constructors championship and also having Lewis Hamilton winning the drivers championship for the second consecutive year.

2014

Position: 1
Points: 701
Lewis Hamilton 1st 384 points
Nico Rosberg 2nd 317 points
The Mercedes car and the new hybrid power train combination completely dominated the 2014 season with 16 race wins, 11 one, two finishes and 18 pole positions. Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg raced wheel to wheel all through the season with Lewis Hamilton taking the drivers championship in the final race of the season. The Mercedes was a the dominant car, but the excitement was the battle between the two drivers. This was Mercedes first championship since 1955 and Juan Manuel Fangio.

2013

Position: 2
Points: 360
Lewis Hamilton 4th 189 points
Nico Rosberg 6th 171 points
For 2013 Lewis Hamilton replaced Michael Schumacher and the team had a good season finishing 2nd in the constructors championship. Toto Wolfe became executove director and a share holder in the team.

2012

Position: 5
Points: 142
Michael Schumacher 13th 49 points
Nico Rosberg 9th 93 points
Nico Rosberg won in Malaysia giving Merceds their first win since the 1950s.

2011

Position: 4
Points: 165
Michael Schumacher 8th 76 points
Nico Rosberg 7th 89 points
Despite no wins, podiums or pole positions they did mange fourth in the constructors championship.

2010

Position: 4
Points: 214
Michael Schumacher 9th 72 points
Nico Rosberg 7th 142 points
The team came out the championship winning Brawn team from the previous year with Ross Brawn remaing with the team after Mercedes bought the team. Michael Schumacher returned to F1 after a three year break, though it was his team mate Nico Rosberg who had the better season with 3 podium finishes. .