(Updates after discussion call)

LONDON, December 5 (Reuters) – Mercedes will check the

track debut of their 2012 Formula One automobile until the second test

of the season in Barcelona on Feb. 21, reduction than a month before

the opening race in Australia, the group pronounced on Monday.

Mercedes also voiced that their central group name would

change to Mercedes AMG Petronas to move in Mercedes-Benz

performance brand AMG.

AMG already reserve the competition with both the safety automobile and

medical automobile and Mercedes motorsport vice-president Norbert Haug

said there would be a technology send in in between the partners.

“At the factory, we have been focused for a little time on the

challenge of 2012, and our very transparent aspiration to move forward

up the grid subsequent year,” pronounced group principal Ross Brawn in a

statement.

“As always, the winter growth and manufacturing

processes are a trade-off in in between time for anticipating performance

in the factory, and time for delivering that opening during

pre-season testing.

“We hold that the preference to run the automobile at the second

winter test is the best concede for our design and

development programme with F1 W03.”

Under brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new rules for 2012, cars can take part in contrast only

when they have upheld the imperative FIA competition crash tests.

That equates to teams have to confirm either to maximise

development and skip out on contrast or get in as most track time

as probable whilst signing off the design routine progressing than

they competence have wished.

DELIBERATE DECISION

Mercedes accomplished the 2011 deteriorate fourth altogether with German

drivers Nico Rosberg and seven-times world hold up Michael

Schumacher.

Rosberg has nonetheless to win a competition whilst Schumacher, 42, has not

been on the lectern given he began his quip in 2010 after

three years out.

The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new deteriorate starts in Melbourne on Mar 18, which allows

Mercedes only 8 days of contrast prior to streamer for

Australia.

“It’s not a large problem, it’s a really counsel preference on

our part for a accumulation of reasons,” Mercedes group CEO Nick Fry

told reporters in a discussion call.

“The first a single is giving ourselves the limit volume of

time to rise opening and since the two tests are two

weeks apart, we hold we are improved off spending that

additional time on building the opening side.

“Most of the tip teams are right away really great at simulation,”

added Fry.

“You can rest positive that prior to the automobile physically hits

the track…we will have finished a estimable volume of work here

at the bureau both supply contrast the automobile in the entirety, rig

testing parts of the automobile and also of march operative on the

driver in the simulator.”

Fry, who helped drive the Mercedes team’s predecessors Brawn

GP to both 2009 titles, forked out that Brawn had minimal

testing and still came out with a world-beater.

“We consider the time is improved invested in growth rather

than pushing physically on the track in the first test,” he

said.

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, modifying by Mark Meadows; For

Reuters sports blog Left Field go to: http://blogs.reuters.com/sport)

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