Team

Mercedes

Base

Brackley, UK

Power unit

Mercedes

2026 standing

P1358 pts

Team principal

Toto Wolff

Age

Nationality

Austrian

In role since

2013

Est. net worth

$1.8B (Forbes 2025 World's Billionaires List, ranked #1947)

Marital status

Married to Susie Wolff (née Stoddart) since October 2011

Born Torger Christian Wolff on 12 January 1972 in Vienna, Austria, he pursued a brief racing career in Austrian and German Formula Ford (1992-1994) before shifting to finance, founding venture investment firms Marchfifteen (1998) and Marchsixteen (2004). He entered F1 management in 2009 by acquiring a stake in Williams F1 and becoming its Executive Director before joining Mercedes in January 2013 as Managing Partner and Team Principal, simultaneously acquiring a 30% ownership stake. Under his leadership as Team Principal and CEO, Mercedes won eight consecutive Constructors' Championships (2014-2021) and seven Drivers' Championships. In 2025, he sold 15% of his personal ownership stake to CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz for approximately $300 million, while retaining full operational authority as Team Principal and CEO entering the 2026 season.

Net worth figures are third-party estimates; treat as speculative.Sources: [1][2][3][4][5][6]

Answer

Mercedes-AMG Petronas is the dominant constructor of the 2026 Formula 1 season through the Canadian Grand Prix. The team runs Kimi Antonelli (championship leader) and George Russell, and is the only constructor with both drivers in the top two of the Drivers' Championship. Based in Brackley, UK, with engines built in Brixworth, the team has won seven consecutive Constructors' Championships from 2014 to 2021 and remains the benchmark for the post-Hamilton era.

2026 storyline

Mercedes enters Monaco GP 2026 with a 1-2 in the Drivers' Championship: Antonelli leads with 100 points, Russell sits second with 80^[2]. The team is widely considered the class of the field through the opening rounds, particularly on qualifying pace.

The narrative is unusual on two counts. First, the championship leader is a sophomore driver in his second F1 season, not a multi-time champion. Second, the team is performing this well in the first year of a major regulation reset, which is rare; new rule sets typically produce a year of competitive turbulence before a dominant team emerges^[1].

Background

Base: Brackley, Northamptonshire, UK (chassis); Brixworth (power unit)
Power unit: Mercedes (in-house)
Team principal: see team's official site for current leadership
Founded as Tyrrell (1968) and reformed under Mercedes ownership in 2010^[1]

Championship history

Mercedes won seven consecutive Constructors' Championships from 2014 to 2021, the longest such streak in F1 history. The Drivers' Championship was won by Lewis Hamilton in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, and by Nico Rosberg in 2016^[1].

The Mercedes era (2014-2021) coincided with the V6 hybrid power unit regulations introduced in 2014. The team built a dominant power unit and chassis package that remained competitive through multiple rule revisions.

The 2025-2026 driver transition

Driver lineup

Andrea Kimi Antonelli: Italian, ANT, championship leader at 100 points after Canada. See /drivers/kimi-antonelli.
George Russell: British, RUS, second in the championship at 80 points. See /drivers/george-russell.