Mercedes has turn out to be essentially the most profitable F1 engine producer when it comes to race wins, ending Ferrari’s 22-year reign.
George Russell’s victory within the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was the 252nd for a Mercedes engine in grand prix racing, passing the 251 benchmark Ferrari had set with Charles Leclerc’s victory on the British GP earlier this yr.
The primary driver to win with a Mercedes engine was Juan Manuel Fangio on the 1954 French GP, on Mercedes-Benz’s grand prix debut, with the crew going onto declare 9 grand prix wins earlier than withdrawing after 1955 within the wake of the Le Mans catastrophe.
Mercedes energy wouldn’t return to F1 till the late Nineteen Nineties, with David Coulthard claiming Mercedes’ tenth victory on the 1997 Australian GP at the back of a McLaren. By this time, Ferrari had 108 wins, though it had skilled a lean interval within the early and mid-Nineteen Nineties.
By the point of the 2004 British Grand Prix, the crew moved forward of Ford Cosworth with its a hundred and eightieth victory, courtesy of Michael Schumacher.
Over the course of the final 22 seasons, Ferrari prolonged its document to 251, with Mercedes on 99 by the point of the adoption of the turbo hybrid period in 2014.
This implies because the begin of 2014, Mercedes energy has gained 153 grands prix, in comparison with 29 for Ferrari.
The wins of Mercedes energy is break up between the Mercedes works crew, McLaren, Brawn GP, and Racing Level, while Ferrari has gained 250 of the 251 grands prix gained by Ferrari engines.
Sebastian Vettel stays the one driver to ever win a grand prix utilizing a Ferrari engine not in a Ferrari chassis, doing so when he gained the 2008 Italian Grand Prix for Toro Rosso, utilizing a buyer Ferrari engine.
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