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Norbert Haug Backs Schumi’s Title Challenge for 2011

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Mercedes sports honcho Norbert Haug has come out defiantly against many of the paddock skeptics who have written off Michael Schumacher’s comeback effort as a disaster.  While acknowledging that Schumacher has struggled at the start, Haug insists that Schumacher is taking the long view, and is far from throwing in the towel.
As Haug told Kicker [...]

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Nick Fry on Schumi: ‘It’s Not Coming Together’

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Mercedes GP CEO Nick Fry is taking a realistic attitude in his evaluation of Michael Schumacher’s performance at mid-season.  Fry has been publicly optimistic about Schumacher all along, assuring anyone who would listen that Schumi was a bit rusty, that everyone within the team was impressed by his efforts and skills, and that eventually all [...]

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Haug Defends Schumi, but Says Rosberg Might Be “the Fastest Guy in the World”

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While Michael Schumacher is currently being roasted by the notoriously fickle Formula 1 media, Mercedes motorsport boss Norbert Haug has come to the defense of his German pilot.  In fact, Haug has gone so far as to say that Schumacher could have won the second race of the season, in Melbourne.
As reported in Autosport, Haug [...]

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Why is Schumacher Slow? Tire Deg, or Too Much Spare Tire?

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There’s an old adage in Formula 1 that you’re only as good as your most recent results.  Judgments are made quickly in this sport, and a driver can go from hero to zero (or vice versa) in the course of a single weekend.  Various predictions have been made as to how long it might take [...]

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Is Mercedes Really Off the Pace?

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Mercedes motorsports boss Norbert Haug has said that he doesn’t expect Mercedes GP to be battling for podiums at the outset of the season.  As reported on ESPNF1, Haug said, “In my opinion, we will not challenge for the podium in the first few races, but we will definitely show up afterward.  Judging our competitiveness [...]

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Schumacher’s Return: an Ironic Chain of Events

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It seems as though it might be a series of miscalculations that will ultimately place Michael Schumacher behind the wheel of a Mercedes F1 car next year .  The first error in judgment, you might say, was Schumacher’s own, when he retired at the end of 2006.
As reported in a story in today’s Daily Mail, [...]

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Jenson Button Agrees to Three-Year Deal with McLaren

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Jenson Button has agreed in pinciple to a three-year deal with McLaren, according to a report in The Guardian.  The contract, which could be finalized by the end of this week, would pay him in the neighborhood of 6.75 million euros per year, or about 20 million euros for the length of the contract.
This was [...]

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Brawn’s Mercedes Deal Still Pending

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For a number of weeks, rumor mongers in the Formula 1 paddock have been hinting at a pending deal which would see Mercedes acquire a 75% stake in Brawn GP.  While there is a certain logic to this deal, for both Mercedes and Brawn, there are also some obstacles.
The buy-in would obviously be a lifeline [...]

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Will Kimi Take a Sabbatical?

Thumbnail image for Will Kimi Take a Sabbatical? November 6, 2009

It seems that both Kimi Raikkonen and his once and possible future team, McLaren Mercedes, are playing a waiting game with respect to finalizing their plans for 2010.  Apparently, Raikkonen’s severance agreement with Ferrari gives him 17 million euros if he takes a sabbatical from Formula 1, as opposed to 10 million euros if he [...]

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McLaren Chasing Big Talent, Not Big Names

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Norbert Haug, president of the Mercedes motorsport division, has indicated that Mclaren-Mercedes will choose a team mate for current number one driver Lewis Hamilton based on the driver’s raw talent and motivation, rather than simply hiring a marquee-name driver at an exhorbitant price.
In a pointed reference to Kimi Raikkonen, Haug recently told Autosport, “Kimi is [...]

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