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Mercedes-Benz HighPerformanceEngines Limited
Type	Private
Founded	11 October 1983
Founder(s)	Mario Illen, Paul Morgan
Headquarters	Brixworth, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Parent	Daimler AG
Website	www.mercedes-benz-hpe.com

Mercedes-Benz HighPerformanceEngines Ltd. (previously known as Mercedes-Ilmor) is an English-based Formula One engine manufacturer, owned by Mercedes-Benz. Since 1995, their engines have powered McLaren's Formula One cars. For the 2009 season, Mercedes-Benz also supplies the Brawn GP and Force India teams with engines.

[edit] Background

Ilmor was founded by Mario Illien and Paul Morgan in 1983, as an independent British Formula One engine manufacturer. The company name was taken from the surnames of the founders. It originally started building engines for IndyCars with the money of IndyCar team owner and chassis manufacturer Roger Penske.

Daimler-Benz acquired Chevrolet's 25% share of Ilmor in 1993. In 2002 Daimler AG increased its share to 55% and renamed the company Mercedes-Ilmor. In 2005 Daimler became the sole owner of Ilmor and renamed the company Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines Ltd.

At the same time the small Special Projects part of the company, which since 2003 had been contracted to design and build Honda's Indy Racing League engines, split away to become a separate company, owned by Mario Illien and Roger Penske. This new company, which is totally independent of Mercedes, is once again known as Ilmor Engineering Ltd.

[edit] History

A 2004 McLaren powered by the Mercedes-Ilmor 3.0 litre V10

In 1991 Ilmor entered Formula One as supplier of the Leyton House team (former March).

After some troubles Leyton House started as March team again in 1992, still using Ilmor engines. Ilmor also delivered engines to the Tyrrell team. Powered by an Ilmor V10, Tyrrell scored 8 points, and March 3 points.

Ilmor already had a good name in F1, and so the Sauber sportscar-team and Mercedes-Benz that were planning their Formula One entrance together signed a deal with Ilmor. However Mercedes stepped back from the project, with the engines only carrying the slogan "Concept by Mercedes-Benz" and the engine was officially called Ilmor.

But after an unexpectedly fast performance in 1993 Sauber convinced Mercedes to enter officially in 1994. In 1994 Ilmor also supplied the new Pacific GP team of Keith Wiggins with the old 1993 spec engines. Pacific had much trouble qualifiyng the cars, in 32 attempts they made it 7 times, although the engine was not implicated in this poor display.

Beginning in 1995 Ilmor became the engine partner to McLaren. The partnership took its first win at the 1997 Australian Grand Prix. Mika Häkkinen picked up driver's championships in 1998 and 1999, and the team won the constructor's championship in 1998. After going winless in 2006, McLaren bounced back and won the driver's championship in 2008 with Lewis Hamilton.

In 2001 Paul Morgan was killed whilst landing his vintage airplane at Sywell Aerodrome, Northamptonshire. This led to Mercedes-Benz increasing their financial involvement in Ilmor, with the company being renamed Mercedes-Ilmor Ltd.

[edit] Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	WCC	Points
1994	Broker Sauber Mercedes Sauber Mercedes	Sauber C13	2175B 3.5 V10	G		BRA	PAC	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	JPN	AUS				8th	12
					Karl Wendlinger	6	Ret	4	DNS
					Andrea de Cesaris						Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
					JJ Lehto															Ret	10
					Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Ret	5	7	WD	Ret	Ret	4	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	6	7
1995	Marlboro McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4/10 McLaren MP4/10B McLaren MP4/10C	FO110 3.0 V10	G		BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	PAC	JPN	AUS			4th	30
					Mark Blundell	6	Ret			5	Ret	11	5	Ret	Ret	5	4	9	Ret	9	7	4
					Nigel Mansell			10	Ret
					Mika Häkkinen	4	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	8		2	DNS
					Jan Magnussen															10
1996	Marlboro McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4/11	FO110 3.0 V10	G		AUS	BRA	ARG	EUR	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN				4th	49
					Mika Häkkinen	5	4	Ret	8	8	6	5	5	5	3	Ret	4	3	3	Ret	3
					David Coulthard	Ret	Ret	7	3	Ret	2	Ret	4	6	5	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	8
1997	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4/12	FO110E 3.0 V10 FO110F 3.0 V10	G		AUS	BRA	ARG	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	AUT	LUX	JPN	EUR			4th	63
					Mika Häkkinen	3	4	5	6	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	DSQ	9	Ret	Ret	4	1
					David Coulthard	1	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	7	7	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	2	Ret	10	2
1998	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4/13	FO110G 3.0 V10	B		AUS	BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	AUT	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	LUX	JPN				1st	156
					David Coulthard	2	2	6	1	2	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	2	2	2	7	Ret	3	3
					Mika Häkkinen	1	1	2	Ret	1	1	Ret	3	2	1	1	6	Ret	4	1	1
1999	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4/14	FO110H 3.0 V10	B		AUS	BRA	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	AUT	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	EUR	MAL	JPN				2nd	124
					Mika Häkkinen	Ret	1	Ret	3	1	1	2	Ret	3	Ret	1	2	Ret	5	3	1
					David Coulthard	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	2	7	Ret	1	2	5	2	1	5	Ret	Ret	Ret
2000	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4/15	FO110J 3.0 V10	B		AUS	BRA	SMR	GBR	ESP	EUR	MON	CAN	FRA	AUT	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	MAL			2nd	152
					Mika Häkkinen	Ret	Ret	2	2	1	2	6	4	2	1	2	1	1	2	Ret	2	4
					David Coulthard	Ret	DSQ	3	1	2	3	1	7	1	2	3	3	4	Ret	5	3	2
2001	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-16	FO110K 3.0 V10	B		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN			2nd	102
					Mika Häkkinen	Ret	6	Ret	4	9	Ret	Ret	3	6	DNS	1	Ret	5	4	Ret	1	4
					David Coulthard	2	3	1	2	5	1	5	Ret	3	4	Ret	Ret	3	2	Ret	3	3
2002	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-17	FO110M 3.0 V10	M		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN			3rd	65
					David Coulthard	Ret	Ret	3	6	3	6	1	2	Ret	10	3	5	5	4	7	3	Ret
					Kimi Räikkönen	3	Ret	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	3	Ret	2	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	3
2003	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-17D	FO110M 3.0 V10	M		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	ITA	USA	JPN				3rd	142
					David Coulthard	1	Ret	4	5	Ret	5	7	Ret	15	5	5	2	5	Ret	Ret	3
					Kimi Räikkönen	3	1	2	2	Ret	2	2	6	Ret	4	3	Ret	2	4	2	2
2004	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-19 McLaren MP4-19B	FO110P 3.0 V10 FO110Q 3.0 V10	M		AUS	MAL	BHR	SMR	ESP	MON	EUR	CAN	USA	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	CHN	JPN	BRA		5th	69
					David Coulthard	8	6	Ret	12	10	Ret	Ret	6	7	6	7	4	9	7	6	9	Ret	11
					Kimi Räikkönen	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	11	Ret	Ret	5	6	7	2	Ret	Ret	1	Ret	3	6	2
2005	West McLaren Mercedes Team McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-20	FO110R 3.0 V10	M		AUS	MAL	BHR	SMR	ESP	MON	EUR	CAN	USA	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	TUR	ITA	BEL	BRA	JPN	CHN	2nd	182
					Kimi Räikkönen	8	9	3	Ret	1	1	11	1	DNS	2	3	Ret	1	1	4	1	2	1	2
					Juan Pablo Montoya	6	4			7	5	7	DSQ	DNS	Ret	1	2	Ret	3	1	14	1	Ret	Ret
					Pedro de la Rosa			5
					Alexander Wurz				3
2006	Team McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-21	FO108S 2.4 V8	M		BHR	MAL	AUS	SMR	EUR	ESP	MON	GBR	CAN	USA	FRA	GER	HUN	TUR	ITA	CHN	JPN	BRA		3rd	110
					Kimi Räikkönen	3	Ret	2	5	4	5	Ret	3	3	Ret	5	3	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	5	5
					Juan Pablo Montoya	5	4	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	2	6	Ret	Ret
					Pedro de la Rosa											7	Ret	2	5	Ret	5	11	8
2007	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-22	FO108T 2.4 V8	B		AUS	MAL	BHR	ESP	MON	CAN	USA	FRA	GBR	EUR	HUN	TUR	ITA	BEL	JPN	CHN	BRA			EX	-
					Fernando Alonso	2	1	5	3	1	7	2	7	2	1	4	3	1	3	Ret	2	3
					Lewis Hamilton	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	3	3	9	1	5	2	4	1	Ret	7
2008	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-23	FO108V 2.4 V8	B		AUS	MAL	BHR	ESP	TUR	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	EUR	BEL	ITA	SIN	JPN	CHN	BRA		2nd	151
					Lewis Hamilton	1	5	13	3	2	1	Ret	10	1	1	5	2	3	7	3	12	1	5
					Heikki Kovalainen	5	3	5	Ret	12	8	9	4	5	5	1	4	10	2	10	Ret	Ret	7
2009	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-24	FO108W 2.4 V8	B		AUS	MAL	CHN	BHR	ESP	MON	TUR	GBR	GER	HUN	EUR	BEL	ITA	SIN	JPN	BRA	ABU			3rd	71
					Lewis Hamilton	DSQ	7	6	4	9	12	13	16	18	1	2	Ret	12	1	3	3	Ret
					Heikki Kovalainen	Ret	Ret	5	12	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	8	5	4	6	6	7	11	12	11
	Force India F1 Team	Force India VJM02		B	Adrian Sutil	9	17	17	16	Ret	14	17	17	15	Ret	10	11	4	Ret	13	Ret	17			9th	13
					Giancarlo Fisichella	11	18	14	15	14	9	Ret	10	11	14	12	2
					Vitantonio Liuzzi													Ret	14	14	11	15
	Brawn GP	Brawn BGP 001		B	Jenson Button	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	6	5	7	7	Ret	2	5	8	5	3			1st	172
	Brawn GP	Brawn BGP 001		B	Rubens Barrichello	2	5	4	5	2	2	Ret	3	6	10	1	7	1	6	7	8	4			1st	172

[edit] See also

Mercedes-Benz in motorsport

[edit] External links

Official website

Contents

[edit] Background

[edit] History

[edit] Complete Formula One World Championship results

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