[Cumpiler69]

>They were at the top in F1 until 2021.

Mercedes F1 team has nothing to do with Mercedes car company other than sharing the same name. Different factories, different management, different workers, different technologies.

It's a marketing exercise designed to sell more road cars ("Win on Sunday, sell on Monday"), that shares nothing with the road cars division.

They can very well sell the F1 team if they deiced it's not profitable anymore.

[jajko]

... which is valid for many if not most F1 contenders, ever saw some F1 tech at latest Renault?

OK, Ferrari for example may take some cues from F1 for their hypercars, but how much is just PR statements and how much actual reality we'll never know.