Penske to buy Mercedes ?

Headline....Penske buys F1...jobs restored.... grid girls are back!

 

Post of the year, maybe he could buy Ferrari and bring back carburetted V12 road cars too;-)!

 

So would it still be called Mercedes just that Penske runs the operation?

 

Mercedes will probably finance it. This is not the end of their financial involvement, in a way they are just outsourcing the management.


Building the Indy pushrod motor for Mercedes and winning Indy all at no cost to Mercedes back in the 90's sure had a good, long term payoff for Roger. One smart business man.

 

I'm betting Penske/Mercedes. Or the reverse.

 

Mercedes-Pens.

 

When Roger bought Detroit Diesel GM financed it 100%.

 

LOL you hit the nail on the head

 

At least until Roger owns 51%.

 

Can’t wait for the Goat to win the 500. It’s lining up.......

 

Mark Donohue's death after a crash during practice affected Roger Penske.
He carried on until the team won a GP with John Watson, but his heart wasn't in it anymore, I think.

 

I think you are right. Roger and Mark were close. Mark only came out of retirement to make a run at F1 for Roger.

 

It was really Mark Donohue who started team Penske, and set the standards for years to come.

 

They had a well defined division of labor. Roger was the business man and salesman. Mark handled engineering and racing, but is was Rogers organizational skills that made it operate in a very orderly machine like fashion.

 

That is a lot.......
Wow
I am wayyyy behind. Like maybe 423 behind.

 

Penske dismisses Mercedes F1 buyout speculation
https://racer.com/2019/11/16/penske-dismisses-mercedes-f1-buyout-speculation/

 

I was hoping ...

 

Well it was fun while it lasted.

 

Well, when you have to go out and deny things, it is because there is something behind, it does not mean that this things are going to succeed but surely there are negotiations.
The note also says that another of the buyers may be the Russian Dmitry Mazepin, so we have to think that Mercedes is really thinking about the recall.
Which sounds totally logical, they already won everything, their future is electric and they debut in Formula E next weekend.

 

That’s something... wow

 

This may mean an end to crapwagons. F1 gets to becomes part of the Indy 500. First class hardware and a true international racing series of world class caliper.

 

No smoke without a fire, they say ...

Call me bias for all you want, but I would prefer the Mercedes-AMG team to be in the hands of Roger Penske, rather than a Russian.
Penske has huge credentials in motor racing.

 

Not always.

Penske just bought INDY / IMS. It seems logical that Penske is in negotiations with mfg's to get more involved with INDY. I doubt he wants any speculation out there that INDY isn't his #1 priority (in racing).

I think the MercedesF1 speculation was F1 journalists making their own smoke...

 

. . . although Toto Wolff misses his first F1 race since 2013

 

I don't think that's correct. So long as you are not trading insolvently, you can continue not making profits for as long as you like.