REPORT: Mercedes-Benz may buy a stake in Brawn GP

[Bill Wood]

Filed under: Motorsports, Mercedes-Benz



The Daily Telegraph reports Mercedes-Benz is considering purchainsg a stake in the Brawn GP team. The Brawn team was born out of the ashes of Honda F1 at the end of 2008 when the Japanese automaker decided to withdraw. At the time, Brawn was able to strike a deal with Mercedes for a supply of engines for 2009. Team principal Ross Brawn quickly demonstrated what his team could do by firing off a string of victories. According to the Telegraph, Mercedes actually considered buying the team as McLaren struggled.

This would come as a dramatic turnaround if the deal does come to fruition. Earlier this year, McLaren reportedly looked at following Honda out the door at the prompting of board member Helmut Lense. Now the paper reports that besides possibly buying into Brawn, the automaker could expand its engine supply to Red Bull in addition to McLaren, Brawn and Force India.

[Source: Daily Telegraph]REPORT: Mercedes-Benz may buy a stake in Brawn GP originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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