Mercedes considering supplying other teams.

Interesting.

Apparently Mercedes is taking a different road now on supplying other teams with older spec engines. Probably the high-cost of F1 is pushing them in that direction. Makes sense from a business point of view. Anyway, rumours are being fuelled again that Merecedes might return to Sauber as engine supplier. To be continued for sure.

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Maybe Ron shouldn't have spent 2 million dollars on his portable two story business office. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Veyron
Maybe Ron shouldn't have spent 2 million dollars on his portable two story business office. :rolleyes:

I don't think both items are related. McLaren pays its bills with sponsor money - which is not Mercedes money - and Mercedes takes care to the engines and everything that goes with it (development, maintenance etc.) And I guess those bills are getting expensive for Mercedes to pay, especially with the worldwide economic downturn.

Originally posted by huudo


I don't think both items are related. McLaren pays its bills with sponsor money - which is not Mercedes money - and Mercedes takes care to the engines and everything that goes with it (development, maintenance etc.) And I guess those bills are getting expensive for Mercedes to pay, especially with the worldwide economic downturn.

True, I was just pointing out the extravagant spending that all the big teams take part in. :)

Originally posted by Veyron


True, I was just pointing out the extravagant spending that all the big teams take part in. :)

I know, ;) , It's like a children, Look mammie I'm stronger/bigger/... :eek:

Originally posted by Veyron


True, I was just pointing out the extravagant spending that all the big teams take part in. :)

Yes, they do.....the red team is as much at fault for this is the silver team......:rolleyes:

Perhaps Mercedes is seeing Ford reaping some advantage from supplying multiple teams and wants some of the cake too.....at least they have a better sales pitch at the moment considering they are supplying Mclaren

I had a thought about it. And no wonder Sauber are looking for options. Remember, that next year teams will be allowed 1 engine per car for the entire weekend? So this makes using last year's (well, this year's) Ferrari engines sort of problematic, and I doubt that Ferrari will be willing to supply or Sauber able to affort current up-to-date Ferrari engines. Enter Mercedes. It seems that 10 mln is a ridiculously low amount. Thiessen just told the press that that sum wouldn't even cover the cost of parts of the engines, so they're unwilling to supply customer engines next year to anyone (they'd sell like crazy though! :))

So can it be that McLaren and Sauber will actually have the same spec engines next year, as it can't be this year's unit because it won't last for 3 days?