Jenson Button’s Formula One future looked assured with his hard-up Brawn GP team due to be taken over by Mercedes.
However, the news that the German carmakers are planning to buy a 75 per cent stake in one British team places a question mark against Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren outfit. Daily Mail
The deal would give the German carmaker, who own 40 per cent of McLaren and also supply Brawn and Force India with engines, control of a Formula One team for the first time in the modern era.
Mercedes has an exclusive contract with McLaren until 2011, so the unit of Germany’s Daimler AG plans to have major investor Aabar of Abu Dhabi hold the stake in Brawn in the meantime.
It quoted Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche as saying he would not rule out such a move.
“Our partners don’t have only the finances, but also a big emotional interest in automobiles and especially our brand. If we wanted to change anything with our Formula One commitment then we could certainly speak with Abu Dhabi,” he said. Yahoo! Eurosport
