Mercedes ended the season with a further two podium finished in P4 in the Constructors’ Championship. Three weeks later, the team celebrated its first podium in Malaysia, when Nico finished the race in P3. It was a bold decision by the Daimler board to join F1, but it paid off – today we look back on a very successful decade as a Mercedes works team in Formula One.” The Mercedes works team scored a double points finish in its first race, with Nico finishing the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix in P5 in front of his teammate Michael in P6.
“No one back then would have dared to dream of the success that this team would enjoy in the future.
“2010 was an important milestone for us it was the year that Mercedes decided to go ‘all in’ and have a Mercedes Formula One team again,” said Toto. A few weeks later, the team announced that seven-time Formula One World Drivers’ Champion Michael Schumacher would return to F1 to race for the three-pointed star alongside Nico Rosberg. On 16 November 2009, Daimler AG announced that Mercedes-Benz would return to Formula One with its own works team. For the first time since 1955, a Mercedes works team was competing in Formula One again. Saturday in Australia marks an important anniversary for the Mercedes motorsport family: 10 years ago, on 14 March 2010, the modern-day Mercedes F1 works team took part in its first race, the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix.
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