Mercedes AMG high performance powertrains
| Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Limited
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| legal form | Limited Company |
| founding | 1984 as Ilmor |
| Seat | Brixworth , UK |
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| Number of employees | about 500 |
| Branch | Engine manufacturer |
| Website | www.mercedes-amg-hpp.com |
| As of July 10, 2020 | |
Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Limited (for short: Mercedes AMG HPP , until 2011 Mercedes-Benz HighPerformanceEngines ) is a British-German manufacturer of racing engines for Formula 1 and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler AG . Mercedes AMG HPP was created in 2005 through the complete takeover of the British engine manufacturer Ilmor , which had existed since 1984 , after Mercedes-Benz had already taken over parts. Ilmor Engineering Ltd. has existed since 2005. in parallel as an independent company.
Mercedes AMG HPP is the factory engine supplier to the Mercedes AMG F1 Team of Daimler AG , which has been participating in the World Championship again since the 2010 season. In the 2019 season, the company will also be supplying the customer teams Williams F1 (since 2014) and Racing Point (since 2018) with engines.
The first use of Mercedes engines in Formula 1 dates from the factory involvement of Daimler-Benz AG in 1954 and 1955 . With the 2.5-liter eight-cylinder engines with direct petrol injection developed by Mercedes-Benz, Juan Manuel Fangio was able to win two drivers' world championships and a total of nine races. In terms of content, this factory assignment must be separated from the company described in this article. The statistics, on the other hand, take into account all races by teams and drivers with Mercedes engines.
With a total of 188 Grand Prix victories (as of the end of the 2019 season) , Mercedes-Benz is the second most successful engine supplier in Formula 1 history behind Ferrari and the most successful German engine manufacturer ahead of Porsche and BMW . Twelve drivers 'titles and eight constructors' titles were won by different teams with Mercedes engines.
history
In 1984 Mario Illien and Paul Morgan founded the engine manufacturer Ilmor Engineering. Initially, they manufactured engines for the American Champ Car racing series, and the first attempts in the Formula 1 World Championship began in 1990. In the 1991 season , Leyton House was the first to equip a Formula 1 racing team with engines. Due to numerous failures (including some engine damage), only one point could be won (by Ivan Capelli at the Hungarian Grand Prix ). As a result, they finished twelfth and last place in the constructors' championship.
In the following season Ilmor moved to the teams Tyrrell and March . This season was more successful and both customer teams were able to collect some points. So at the end of the season they finished sixth with Tyrell and ninth with March in the constructors' championship.
From 1993 a program of cooperation with Mercedes-Benz began. From now on, Ilmor exclusively equipped the Sauber team, which had switched from the sports car world championship to Formula 1, with engines. The team officially still drove with Ilmor engines, and the words "Concept by Mercedes-Benz" were written on the vehicles. Thanks to numerous points, the team finished seventh in the manufacturers' championship.
1994-2005: Mercedes 3.0 liter V10
In 1994 , Daimler-Benz acquired a 25% stake in Ilmor for the first time. That is why the engines of the Sauber team were used under the Mercedes name from this season onwards. Ilmor also supplied Pacific Racing under its own name that year , with the 2175A engines used by March and Tyrrell in 1992. Sauber was able to score a few times and was eighth with twelve points. Pacific Racing couldn't score a single point.
In 1995 Mercedes-Benz and McLaren became partners in Formula 1, the engines were manufactured by Ilmor for Mercedes-Benz. From now on, McLaren used the Mercedes engines exclusively as a factory-supported team. The team was able to regularly score points and finished fourth with 30 points. In the following year , this fourth place was defended with 49 points.
At the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne in 1997 , as an engine manufacturer, Mercedes celebrated its first Formula 1 victory since leaving at the end of 1955 ; David Coulthard won the race. At the Italian Grand Prix also by David Coulthard and at the European Grand Prix with a double victory by Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard, two more victories followed. At the end of the season they had 63 championship points and defended fourth place in the constructors' championship again.
The breakthrough came in 1998 and 1999 , with Mika Häkkinen winning the driver's world championship. In 1998 McLaren was also world constructors champion. A total of 16 Grand Prix victories were achieved in the two years.
In the following years, the British-German team could no longer fight for the world title due to the superiority of the Ferraris and was runner-up in 2000 and 2001 respectively. In 2002 , McLaren-Mercedes was only third behind Ferrari and Williams-BMW.
That season, DaimlerChrysler increased its stake in the engine plant to 55% and changed the company's name to Mercedes-Ilmor Ltd. In addition, it was agreed that the company would be fully acquired in phases.
The 2003 season was more successful again. McLaren fought for the drivers' title with Kimi Raikkonen until the last race , but failed just two points behind Michael Schumacher. In the constructors' category, they only came third with 142 points. 2004 was a poor year, with just one win, McLaren-Mercedes was fifth in the constructors' championship with 69 points at the end of the season.
In 2005 DaimlerChrysler acquired the remaining company shares and changed the company name to Mercedes-Benz HighPerformanceEngines Ltd. All parts of the company that are not involved in the development and production of Formula 1 engines were sold to Mario Illien and Roger Penske in the course of the company's reorganization, together with the rights to the name "Ilmor" , which then became Ilmor Engineering Ltd. newly founded. In terms of sport, the team was able to consolidate itself in the last year of ten-cylinder engines. With the young Finn Kimi Räikkönen and Juan Pablo Montoya they became vice world champions both for the drivers (Raikkonen) and the designers. In the next year the McLaren was only the third strongest vehicle in the field, fifth place for drivers and third place for designers was the result.
2006–2013: Mercedes 2.4 liter V8
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In the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship , the era of V8 engines with a displacement of 2.4 liters began. McLaren-Mercedes initially had no chance against the dominating teams Renault and Ferrari. There was not a single victory in 2006, fifth place with the drivers (Räikkönen) and with 110 points third place with the designers was the result.
In 2007 Mercedes-Benz HPE opened the first part of the new Formula One Mercedes-Benz Technology Center in Brixworth, England (also home of Ilmor Engineering). In terms of sport, the team finally wanted to be among the top tier of the championship again, for which they signed the two-time world champion Fernando Alonso and the young driver Lewis Hamilton . Despite internal squabbles between the drivers, the season was initially successful, with eight race victories and losing both championships to Ferrari by just one point. The year ended disastrously for McLaren-Mercedes due to the "espionage affair" with the exclusion from the constructors' championship. The drivers, however, kept their points. In 2008 Alonso left the team and Heikki Kovalainen replaced him. The team presented itself as competitive as last year and this time Lewis Hamilton was one point ahead of Massa in the Ferrari world champion. The team was runner-up with 151 points and six wins.
In 2009, in addition to the McLaren-Mercedes team, Mercedes-Benz HPE also supplied customer teams for the first time: Force India and Brawn GP . In June 2009 Mercedes Motorsport Director Norbert Haug announced the reduction of the workforce in Brixworth by approx. 12% (around 50 employees). The reason is the current rule changes in Formula 1. Brawn GP surprisingly won both championships in his first season with Jenson Button as world champion. For a team with Mercedes engines, this was the sixth drivers 'world title after 1954, 1955, 1998, 1999 and 2008 and the second constructors' world title after 1998. In addition, Jenson Button was able to win three races with the same engine, which was one represented a new record in Formula 1. For reasons of cost and weight, Brawn GP did without the newly approved KERS system from the outset to recover braking energy. McLaren-Mercedes, BMW-Sauber, Ferrari and Renault relied on the complicated system and therefore lost touch with the aerodynamically better positioned Brawn GP and Red Bull . McLaren finished fifth among the drivers (Hamilton) and third among the constructors with 71 points. There were two more wins in the second half of the season. Force India finished ninth in the constructors' championship with 13 points.
With the acquisition of Brawn GP before the 2010 season and the subsequent renaming to Mercedes GP , Mercedes-Benz is competing with a works team in Formula 1 for the first time since 1955. By simultaneously leaving McLaren, the British-German partnership ended after 14 years. From then on, McLaren was just a customer team alongside Force India. Nonetheless, McLaren was able to achieve second place among the designers in 2010 and 2011 , while the works team took fourth place. Force India finished seventh and sixth in the team standings.
In 2012 , with Nico Rosberg , the works team achieved their first victory and the first pole position since returning, but McLaren was still the more successful team as a customer team. There were seven wins, 378 points and third place among the constructors. The Mercedes works team was only fifth with 142 points, Force India seventh with 107. In 2013 , Hamilton moved from McLaren to Mercedes. This season Mercedes was able to beat its former partner for the first time, finishing fourth with the drivers (Hamilton) with a total of three wins and vice world champion behind Red Bull with 360 points. McLaren ended a difficult season in fifth place ahead of Force India.
Since 2014: Mercedes 1.6 liter V6 Turbo
For the Formula 1 World Championship 2014 , 1.6-liter V6 turbo engines with energy recovery (kinetic and thermal) were stipulated by the regulations in Formula 1. At the beginning of this hybrid era, the newly developed Mercedes-Benz PU106A Hybrid from Mercedes AMG HPP presented itself as the most powerful and reliable engine in Formula 1. Development began three years earlier and is said to have devoured an estimated £ 100 million in development costs .
For the first time since 1955, Mercedes-Benz won a drivers 'world championship from Hamilton and became constructors' world champions with a record of 701 points. Both titles were defended in a similarly dominant form in 2015 and 2016 , with Nico Rosberg becoming world champion once in 2016.
In addition to Force India and McLaren, Mercedes has also been supplying the Williams F1 Team with V6 turbo engines since the 2014 season . The dominance of Mercedes engines was also demonstrated by the fact that with Williams as third, McLaren as fifth and Force India as sixth, all Mercedes customers were within the top 6 of the 2014 constructors' championship. Williams and Force India established themselves in 2015 in third and fifth and in 2016 in fourth and fifth in the midfield. After McLaren switched to Honda engines for the 2015 season, Mercedes initially supplied the Lotus F1 Team for one year with the production capacities that had become available, and after Renault took over Manor Racing in the 2016 season . The latter, however, with previous year's engines from 2015, which was allowed in 2016. While Lotus reached third place and finished sixth among the constructors, Manor was only eleventh in the constructors' championship.
In 2017 and 2018 Mercedes was able to win both titles again with the duo Hamilton / Bottas . Hamilton beat Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari twice in the drivers' championship , whose further developed hybrid engines have improved significantly and are on par with Mercedes. Force India and Williams continued to drive the Mercedes engines as customer teams in 2017 and 2018 . Force India finished fourth and Williams fifth in the constructors' championship in 2017. After Force India became insolvent during the 2018 season and was transferred to the new Racing Point team , it was also supplied with Mercedes engines. In the last nine races of the 2018 season, the team was able to collect 52 points and finish the season in 7th place ahead of Williams (10th). The points of the disbanded Force India team have been deleted.
Of the 100 Grand Prix races between 2014 and 2018, 74 were won with Mercedes engines. Lewis Hamilton became the most successful Mercedes driver in history. The Mercedes team set numerous season records.
In the 2020 season , Mercedes, Williams and Racing Point will compete with the 1.6-liter turbo engines from Mercedes AMG HPP.
statistics
List of Grand Prix winners with Mercedes engines
Status: Austrian Grand Prix 2020; Drivers who are active with Mercedes engines are marked in yellow.
| driver | Nat. | Period | Grand Prix |
GP victories |
Quota | World Cup points |
World title |
best World Championship position (year) |
Team (victories) |
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| Lewis Hamilton |
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2007 - | 251 | 84 | 33.46% | 3443 | 6th | 1. ( 2008 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 ) | McLaren (21), Mercedes (63) |
| Nico Rosberg |
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2010 - 2016 | 136 | 23 | 16.91% | 1519 | 1 | 1. (2016) | Mercedes (all) |
| Mika Hakkinen |
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1995 - 2001 | 113 | 20th | 17.70% | 377 | 2 | 1. ( 1998 , 1999 ) | McLaren (all) |
| Jenson Button |
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2009 - 2014 | 113 | 14th | 12.39% | 966 | 1 | 1st ( 2009 ) | McLaren (8), Brawn (6) |
| David Coulthard |
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1996 - 2004 | 150 | 12 | 8.00% | 412 | - | 2. ( 2001 ) | McLaren (all) |
| Kimi Raikkonen |
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2002 - 2006 | 87 | 9 | 10.35% | 337 | - | 2. ( 2003 , 2005 ) | McLaren (all) |
| Valtteri Bottas |
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2014 - | 121 | 8th | 6.61% | 1310 | - | 2. ( 2019 ) | Mercedes (all) |
| Juan Manuel Fangio |
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1954 - 1955 | 12 | 8th | 66.67% | 81.14 | 2 | 1. ( 1954 , 1955 ) | Mercedes (all) |
| Fernando Alonso |
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2007 | 17th | 4th | 23.53% | 109 | - | 3rd ( 2007 ) | McLaren (all) |
| Juan Pablo Montoya |
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2005 - 2006 | 26th | 3 | 11.54% | 86 | - | 4th ( 2005 ) | McLaren (all) |
| Rubens Barrichello |
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2009 | 17th | 2 | 11.76% | 77 | - | 3rd ( 2009 ) | Brawn (all) |
| Heikki Kovalainen |
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2008 - 2009 | 35 | 1 | 2.86% | 75 | - | 7. ( 2008 ) | McLaren (all) |
| Stirling Moss |
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1955 | 6th | 1 | 16.67% | 23 | - | 2. ( 1955 ) | Mercedes (all) |
List of Mercedes customer teams
Status: Austrian Grand Prix 2020; Teams active with Mercedes engines are marked in yellow.
| Customer team | Period | Grand Prix | GP victories | Pole positions | best WM-Pos. | Engine formula |
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 Sauber F1 Team
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1994 | 15th | - | - | 7th (1994) | 3.5 l V10 |
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McLaren Racing
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1995 - 2014 | 351 | 78 | 76 | 1st ( 1998 ) | 3.0 l V10 (1995–2005) 2.4 l V8 (2006–2013) 1.6 l V6 T (2014) |
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Brawn GP
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2009 | 17th | 8th | 5 | 1st (2009) | 2.4 l V8 |
 Force India F1 Team
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2009 - 2018 | 185 | - | 1 | 4. ( 2016 ; 2017 ) | 2.4 l V8 (2009-2013) 1.6 l V6 T (2014-2018) |
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Williams Racing
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2014 - | 122 | - | 1 | 3. ( 2014 ; 2015 ) | 1.6 l V6 T |
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Lotus F1 Team
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2015 | 19th | - | - | 6. (2015) | 1.6 l V6 T |
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Manor Racing Team
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2016 | 21st | - | - | 11. (2016) | 1.6 l V6 T |
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Racing Point
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2018– | 31 | - | - | 7. (2018, 2019) | 1.6 l V6 T |
| Works team | Period | Grand Prix | GP victories | Pole positions | best WM-Pos. | Engine formula |
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Daimler Benz
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1954 - 1955 | 12 | 9 | 8th | - | 2.5 l L8 |
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Mercedes AMG F1 Team
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2010 - | 199 | 94 | 104 | 1. ( 2014 ; 2015 ; 2016 ; 2017 ; 2018 ; 2019 ) | 2.4 l V8 (2010-2013) 1.6 l V6 T (2014–) |
- ↑ Constructors' World Championship
- ↑ Motors were not yet from Mercedes HPP
- ↑ Constructors' championship only from 1958
See also
literature
- Günter Engelen: Mercedes-Benz racing and sports cars; since 1894 , 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-03206-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Consolidated Financial Statements of Daimler AG as of December 31, 2007 (PDF; 75 kB) Daimler AG. S. 4. Archived from the original on December 7, 2008. Retrieved September 13, 2008.
- ^ A b c Ilmor Engineering: Profiles. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 27, 2007 ; accessed on September 13, 2008 .
- ↑ DaimlerChrysler Annual Report 2002. (PDF; 3.9 MB) (No longer available online.) DaimlerChrysler AG, p. 30 , archived from the original on January 23, 2015 ; Retrieved September 14, 2008 .
- ^ Force India Formula One Team Announces Technical Partnerships With Mclaren Applied Technologies, Mercedes-Benz Highperformanceengines And Eads. F1minute.com, November 10, 2008, archived from the original on February 4, 2009 ; accessed on January 21, 2009 .
- ↑ 18 cars are not enough. March 6, 2009, accessed September 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Haug: Twelve percent downsizing at Mercedes. handelsblatt.com, June 7, 2009, accessed June 18, 2009 .
- ↑ Haug confirms job cuts at Mercedes. nzz online, June 7, 2009, accessed June 18, 2009 .
- ↑ "New engines for Formula 1 in 2016?" Racecar-engineering.com, November 24, 2014, accessed on December 4, 2014 .
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