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maggio 05, 2021 - Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

Tales from the paddock: Twin mission for the Mercedes F1 and Formula E teams in Barcelona and Monaco

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The 2021 motorsport season is in full flow, with one race weekend following hot on the heels of another: a look back (and forward) at the latest news from the Formula One, Formula E and GT #racing fronts

  • This is what happened: Results and facts
  • News from the Mercedes-AMG Motorsport teams
  • Social media news: What’s new online?

This is what happened: Results and facts

  • F1: Lewis Hamilton wins the Portuguese GP, with #valtteribottas in third
  • GT World Challenge America: Two podiums for the Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the two rounds of the series contested at the Circuit of the Americas
  • Pirelli GT4 America: Top Three finishes also for the Mercedes-AMG GT4 in each of the two races at Austin

News snippets

From Portimão to #barcelona: This week, #f1 travels some 1,000 kilometres as the crow flies from one side of the Iberian Peninsula to the other. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas #f1 Team came away from last weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix with three more trophies in its luggage, thanks to race winner #lewishamilton and third-placed #valtteribottas. It was Grand Prix victory number 97 for Lewis and the 500th start for Mercedes-Benz-powered cars in the premier class of motorsport. And at the end of the third race weekend of the season, Lewis tops the drivers’ standings for the 122nd time in his #f1 career, breaking a record he previously shared with Michael Schumacher. Next weekend, the 2021 Formula One World Championship continues with the Spanish Grand Prix. For the first time in a long while, the teams will be turning up at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya without having had the benefit of pre-season winter testing there. In the past four years, the circuit has been a happy hunting ground for Mercedes: Lewis has won four times in succession, and pole position in qualifying has gone to a Silver Arrows driver eight times in a row since 2013. With a tally of five Grand Prix wins in #barcelona, Lewis is just one victory behind Michael Schumacher who still holds the record for the most wins in Spain. Ferrari are the most successful constructor in the Spanish GP with twelve wins, ahead of McLaren (8) and Williams (7). Mercedes (6) are in joint fourth place with Lotus.

Deep Dive: While the 2021 Formula One season has only just begun, Tom Batch, Principal Engineer in the team’s Applied Science department, has just returned from his personal highlight of the year in Auckland, New Zealand, where he assisted INEOS TEAM UK in getting maximum performance from their yacht in the 36th America’s Cup. In an in-depth interview, Tom, who spent seven years as trackside engineer in #f1, tells us about his involvement in the project and answers specific questions about the differences and similarities between Formula One drivers/teams and professional yachtsmen/teams in the America’s Cup. Minor spoiler: They have a lot more in common than you might at first think...

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