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[Jabberwocky]

Ant Davidson called it the most expensive F1 car run on a shoe string.

[andrew]

But surely the board wouldn't have sanctioned a three year multi million deal if they weren't fully committed.

What they pay a driver will be less than what they fork out to run an unsuccessful team.

[Jabberwocky]

Mercedes road cars must love the unreliability of the F1 team. Goes with the image

[What's Burning?]

They hadn't signed Rubens at the time they pulled out of F1. They had, however, just invested in bringing Ross Brawn onboard to move things forward, as well as poured somewhere around $400m into developing a car for 2009. If they can pull out after that level of investment then I suppose anything could happen.

It's difficult to comprehend numbers when we don't have actual access to things other than what we hear. But Honda pouring somewhere around $400 million into developing the 2009 car sounds very suspect when the figures that I've heard quoted as the profit made by RBR over the last three years winning both championships is $300 million.

So if that's true you can see why they'd pull the plug on F1.

[What's Burning?]

Mercedes road cars must love the unreliability of the F1 team. Goes with the image

They really should be called Land Rover Discovery F1.

[Jabberwocky]

Mercedes road cars must love the unreliability of the F1 team. Goes with the image

They really should be called Land Rover Discovery F1.

How very rude , in the 18 months mine has broken once, and even then it did not grind to a halt... in fact it did a race distance with a broken rocker arm.

[What's Burning?]

Mercedes road cars must love the unreliability of the F1 team. Goes with the image

They really should be called Land Rover Discovery F1.

How very rude , in the 18 months mine has broken once, and even then it did not grind to a halt... in fact it did a race distance with a broken rocker arm.

I don't know about there... but in the US It had such a bad record that they had to change the name! LR3... hopefully no one will notice. The Discovery was a good looking truck though.

[Jabberwocky]

To Be honest they are unreliable if they are not serviced.

Most of the problems with the UK ones are that the Safari windows at the back leak badly, this lets a lot of water into the interior of the vehicle that sloshes around between the body panels and the interior trim, destroying electrical items as they go, and causing the rear floor to rot.

[bud]

On a lighter note, Norbert doing some donuts.

[Hammer278]

That car looks badass...especially if its able to do donuts with Haug in it!

[bud]

It's an old rally car, story here http://www.pitpass.com/48157-Farewell-N ... o-the-book" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jabberwocky]

That car looks badass...especially if its able to do donuts with Haug in it!

Haug thought they where offering a different type of donut

[andrew]

It would look even better powersliding round a corner in a snow covered rally stage.

[andrew]

Berger being considered as replacement for Haug at Mercedes

Dec.18 (GMM) Former F1 driver and team boss Gerhard Berger could be a candidate to replace Mercedes-Benz’s departing head of motor sport Norbert Haug.

That is the claim of the Swiss magazine Speed Week, specifically naming the former Ferrari and McLaren driver as potentially in the running for Haug’s job.

Austrian Berger, 54, was BMW’s joint motor sport director last decade, and until 2008 the co-owner of the second Red Bull team, Toro Rosso.

“We will inform you about everything in due course,” a Mercedes spokesman is quoted by the German news agency DPA.

[LewEngBridewell]

Interesting. Hopefully it'll be a more inspiring move than his brief spell at Toro Rosso.