Is Mercedes withdrawing from Formula 1?

“There is certainly a limit for the top teams,” said Niki Lauda, head of the Silver Arrows racing team supervisory board, to Wirtschaftswoche: “It could be that one or the other racing team will pull out if things go completely in the wrong direction. “

Traditionalist Lauda also doesn't think much of the Halo safety system introduced this season, which is intended to protect the pilots' heads in the event of an accident. “The halo system is the worst thing that has ever been done to Formula 1,” said the Austrian, who is also not very enthusiastic about the abolition of the grid girls. “I don’t understand why the Grid Girls were abolished. The Americans apparently think they have to go along with the #MeToo movement,” said Lauda: “For God’s sake, the grid girls aren’t naked. In Austria everyone wears a dirndl.”

As the owner of Formula 1, Liberty Media is currently striving for numerous reforms. For the 2021 season, a cost cap of around $150 million will be introduced, the prize money will be distributed more fairly and the engines will be simplified. Ferrari has therefore already openly threatened to withdraw from Formula 1.

“If Formula 1 becomes more of a spectacle than a sport, and if we develop in the direction of the Nascar races in the USA, then Ferrari will get out,” said Ferrari President Sergio Marchionne recently: “But Ferrari will work with Liberty to to find acceptable solutions.”

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Is Mercedes withdrawing from Formula 1?

In the power struggle over the future of Formula 1, after Ferrari, the world champion team Mercedes is now also bringing up a possible withdrawal from the premier class.

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