Comments on: McLaren & Mercedes road divisions split

By: Rushi

Rushi — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:49:57 +0000

i bet if mclaren do split then they would use engine from BMW.

By: donwatters

donwatters — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:20:41 +0000

If Mercedes really wants to own its own team it will buy the rest of McLaren it doesn’t already own. It makes no sense from either a monetary or competitive standpoint to start something from scratch.

By: Internet

Internet — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:35:40 +0000

Most likely McLaren will go with Honda. They have had a good partnership in the past. Anyone know why McLaren left them?

By: DG

DG — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:50:02 +0000

Has anybody checked the McLaren Cars website? Surely this is just saying that as a McLaren project, the SLR is finished, but will carry on under Mercedes/AMG ownership, which is strange anyway considering it was only supposed to be a low volume production – its not as if anybody races them yet!
McLaren will have their hands full with the P11 and P12, which will be with Merc/AMG engines I’m sure – this is purely a rearrangement, not a split!
By the way, have you seen that BMW are bringing back the M1 to compete against the SLR?
And thinking about it, wouldn’t an HWA engine count as a Mercedes ‘Customer’ engine in the F1 terminology?

By: f1freak

f1freak — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:25:07 +0000

yeah they can use those documents which they stole from ferrari…

By: Sush

Sush — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:41:52 +0000

“The quickest way for way for Mclaren to go bust, is to start designing and building engines.”….

… based on photocopied documents they just might have laying around somewhere.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:30:44 +0000

The quickest way for way for Mclaren to go bust, is to start designing and building engines.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:28:30 +0000

Johnny I was also thinking along that line.:)

By: f1freak

f1freak — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:45:54 +0000

aha good point sush…

By: Sush

Sush — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:29:42 +0000

the problem with that F1freak is that Mclaren are a constructor, much like williams and Force India and Red Bull Racing.

Manufacturers have the engines, because they have the resources.

If I was Martin Whitmarsh i’d start begging Porsche, since they have a superb road going V10, and they wanna buy Audi.