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After buying cash-strapped Brawn GP, Mercedes started the 2010 season in a promising way with Rosberg collecting 2 podiums and positioning second in WDC for a moment. Since then car performance has gradually been deteriorating all the time, which has recently meant getting lapped by Top3 teams and sometimes getting beaten by other midfielders, like Force India.

In 2011 Mercedes has finally turned its attention to the deepest problem and started improving its engineering excellence.
Costa, Willis join Mercedes GP as it strengthens technical team - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com
In addition to Bob Bell they have signed Aldo Costa and Geoff Willis. All notable names. Besides all Bell and Costa managed to win all constructors championships during 2005-2008 as technical directors. Does this mean that Mercedes is finally going to halt its backwards slide and will actually start improving? Do they have title-challenging potential in long-term? Perhaps new rules in 2014 will tell us...

Mercedes' actions remind me a bit of what their predecessor Honda did in 2007, when as a consequence of a horrible season they made a lot of new signings, headed by Brawn. Two years later it all culminated in winning the championships...