The Mercedes F1 W01 was a Formula One racing car built by Mercedes for the 2010 Formula One season. This was the first time that Mercedes would be entering as a constructor since the 1955 season. The team's drivers for the 2010 season were seven times world champion Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg.
The MGP W01 was unveiled on January 25, 2010 at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. The car was based on a Brawn BGP 001 chassis following the team's purchase of the championship-winning Brawn GP of 2009.
However, the team could not achieve their success in their first season, as they had as Brawn Grand Prix the previous year. Mercedes battled Renault for 4th place in the Constructors' Championship.
Rosberg achieved 3 podium finishes, with all of them being third places at Malaysia, China and Britain.
Position | Name |
Vice-President of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport | Norbert Haug |
Team Principal | Ross Brawn |
Chief Executive Officer | Nick Fry |
Managing Director | Thomas Fuhr |
Sporting Director | Ron Meadows |
Chief Designer | Kevin Taylor |
Head of Aerodynamics | Loic Bigois |
Head of Vehicle Engineering and Dynamics | Craig Wilson |
Chief Mechanic | Matthew Deane |
Chief Race Engineer | Simon Cole |
Race Engineer to Michael Schumacher | Andrew Shovlin |
Race Engineer to Nico Rosberg | Jock Clear |
Driver | Michael Schumacher |
Driver | Nico Rosberg |
Test Driver | Nick Heidfeld |
Complete Formula One Results[]
Complete Formula One Results | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Driver | Tyre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Schumacher | B | 6th | 10th | Ret | 10th | 4th | 12th | 4th | 11th | 15th | 9th | 9th | 11th | 7th | 9th | 13th | 6th | 4th | 7th | Ret | |
Rosberg | 5th | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 13th | 7th | 5th | 6th | 10th | 3rd | 8th | Ret | 6th | 5th | 5th | 17th | Ret | 6th | 4th |
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V T E | Mercedes Grand Prix | ||
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Current drivers 44. Lewis Hamilton · 63. George Russell | |||
World Champions Juan Manuel Fangio (1954, 1955) · Lewis Hamilton (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) · Nico Rosberg (2016) | |||
Former Drivers Michael Schumacher · Juan Manuel Fangio · Nico Rosberg · Valtteri Bottas · Hans Herrmann · Karl Kling · Stirling Moss · André Simon · Piero Taruffi · Hermann Lang | |||
Personnel Nick Fry · Bob Bell · Aldo Costa · Toto Wolff | |||
Former Personnel Norbert Haug · Alfred Neubauer · Max Sailer · Rudolf Uhlenhaut · Paddy Lowe | |||
Cars W154 · W196 · W01 · W02 · W03 · W04 · W05 · W06 · W07 · W08 · W09 · W10 · W11 · W12 · W13 · W14 · W15 | |||