Schumacher and Rosberg drive Mercedes’ last F1 race winner

28 comments on “Schumacher and Rosberg drive Mercedes’ last F1 race winner”

1. 

   Morteza
   8th September 2011, 8:39

   It’s a pity they’ve got no race winning car at the moment.
   1. 

      Sush Meerkat
      8th September 2011, 9:48

      They have got a race winning car, they happen to be driving it in the above video.
2. 

   HounslowBusGarage
   8th September 2011, 8:46

   I loathe the slo-mo walk towards the camera!
   At 3′ 28″ the W196 is on the right hand side and there’s another car coming the opposite direction away to the left. Were they on a public road?
   1. 

      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      8th September 2011, 8:49

      The car coming in the opposite direction is Schumacher in the other Mercedes. Looks like they had the Nordschleife’s long straight closed for filming.
3. 

   wificats (@wificats)
   8th September 2011, 9:48

   It must be a great perk to driving for a team like Mercedes or Ferrari with some heritage to get to drive a legendary car like the W196, even if you don’t get to drive a race winning car every weekend.

   Also, it was nice to see the W02 running at Rockingham in the video, I guess it’s nice and close to Mercedes’ headquarters. It’s a shame that the track isn’t normally used for anything more exciting, and that the road course the use for touring cars is so poor.
4. 

   antonyob
   8th September 2011, 10:07

   Great to see the old thing chugging round the track, crazily uncompetitive and slow now of course. But enough about Michael already.

   ba dum tish. i thank you
   1. 

      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      8th September 2011, 10:16

      Comment from Toby Bushby moved here
   2. 

      joey-poey
      8th September 2011, 17:51

      COTD if simply for the fact that was a good zinger
5. 

   matt90 (@matt90)
   8th September 2011, 10:33

   Beautiful things, particularly the streamliner.
6. 

   Red Lebanese (@redlebanese)
   8th September 2011, 10:53

   Did anyone else notice Schumi messing with Nico, particularly at 1:40? Heh heh.
7. 

   Lachie
   8th September 2011, 10:55

   Surely someone here can answer a question that’s bugged me for years.

   How was that streamlined bodywork version ever legal? Surely one of the most basic definitions of Formula One is that it’s an open-wheel category, which that bodywork seems to completely flaunt.

   Is it as simple as the offical rules at the time not explicitly stating “No bodywork to intersect a vertical line between the sky and a point on the tyre between 0 and pi radians” or something.

   I find it curious that no other team seemed to have taken the same approach.
   1. 

      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      8th September 2011, 11:03

      I don’t think that fact that the cars were legal is in doubt but I don’t know off the top of my head at what point it became illegal to run enclosed bodywork like that in Formula 1.
   2. 

      Icthyes (@icthyes)
      8th September 2011, 11:12

      You may find some answers here.
   3. 

      Icthyes (@icthyes)
      8th September 2011, 11:14

      Oh and Mercedes weren’t the only ones either, it’s just that they’re iconic; there was for example the Maserati 250F
   4. 

      Fixy (@)
      8th September 2011, 12:23

      I’ve always wondered as well.
   5. 

      matt90 (@matt90)
      8th September 2011, 16:23

      http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=cooper+t51&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbnid=in_-JR0rqz7DTM:&imgrefurl=http://www.forix.com/8w/6thgear/neverraced.html&docid=N02RLfHHDSJbhM&w=400&h=229&ei=Qd1oTvTgJsen8QObk4XvCw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1036&vpy=127&dur=355&hovh=126&hovw=220&tx=159&ty=86&page=1&tbnh=123&tbnw=215&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0

      Cooper T51 streamliner.
8. 

   BasCB (@bascb)
   8th September 2011, 11:58

   I found the video playing on the cars surface a bit awkward there!

   But these cars are really legendary. Hearing Schumacher talk about the technical/engineering of the car really brings forward how he is focussed on that part of F1, really honing the engineers to give him the best possible material to race with.
   Nice to see that and compare to Nico talking about the driver aspect far more.
9. 

   King Six
   8th September 2011, 12:16

   When the Mercedes cars were actually German? Maybe that’s a hint?
10. 

    John H
    8th September 2011, 13:12

    Love that jink by Schumi at 1:41! Would have been funny if Rosberg had ‘done a Maldonado’.
11. 

    DavidJH (@davidjh)
    8th September 2011, 15:20

    I liked the mental image of modern drivers “lying prone” in the cars.
12. 

    NFS
    8th September 2011, 18:31

    Looks like Michael Schumacher still quite an icon for the Tifosi.
    Twitter:
    byronf1:”The tifosi still love Schuie. Here he is below me in the pitlane. http://yfrog.com/kiilprgj”

    MauriceHamilton:”Schumi: still popular at Monza. http://yfrog.com/nu59zij”

    Alanbaldwinf1:”Chants of ‘Ole, Ole, Ole Schumi’ outside the Mercedes garage, where a lot of the fans are wearing red shirts. Almost like old times.”

    adamcooperf1:”Michael Schumacher as popular as ever, he attracted a huge mob and signed autographs for quite a while”

    sarahholtf1″I am started to get worried by the incessant chants of ‘Michael’ and ‘Schumi’ outside the Mercedes garage”.
    1. 

       snowman
       8th September 2011, 22:57

       hard for them to forget the glory years… at least the tifosi appreciate having the ole boy around!
    2. 

       Icemangrins
       8th September 2011, 23:49

       Thanks for sharing the pics
    3. 

       Duke
       9th September 2011, 19:31

       The overtures have started,Schumi will return to Ferrari before he is finished for at least 1 year.He is still greatly loved.
13. 

    RedGreen
    8th September 2011, 21:18

    The voiceover on the Mercedes video ruined it for me. Why do Mercedes’ publicity department keep using that cheesy voiceover guy? He’d be better suited to waxing lyrical about kitchen sponges on QVC at 2am…
    1. 

       snowman
       8th September 2011, 22:54

       ya, I think he’s missed his calling in life!
14. 

    ob1kenobi.23 (@ob1kenobi23)
    9th September 2011, 4:01

    Hard to get my head around the fact that they have been in the busineess for 125 years.
    D.C. on a spying mission. My name is Coulthard, David Coulthard. Has the required accent.
15. 

    AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
    10th September 2011, 8:25

    The Silver Arrows from this era are about the only machines of their generation that I find nice to look at.

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