2024-02-14 10:29:16
The greats are appearing on the scene and this Wednesday it was the turn of Mercedes and its W15, who wants to be champion once more following two discreet years. Only one victory, George’s Russell In Brazil 2022, they have led to a complete turnaround in terms of their new car.
In aesthetics, They recover the color of the ‘silver arrows’ on the nose and cockpitwhich is combined with the aqua green of Petronas and that in the rest of the car it remains black, for weight saving reasons.
The technical director is once more James Allison, the creator of the most successful cars of the hybrid era of F1 and the revolution regarding the two ‘Zero pod’ concept cars, without pontoons, can be seen in the first images. They return to the conventional line, imposed by Red Bull and its dominance with ground effect bottoms, where they have swept.
He sports morbidity is served, as it will be Lewis Hamilton’s last season with Mercedes, following the announcement of his departure to Ferrari in 2025 and why leadership should pass naturally to Russell, who is the one who will remain in the team. That’s how things are in F1 and that’s how they have always been.
“It’s not just a change in aerodynamics, but many mechanical changes to make a car faster and more predictable for the pilots. We will see in Bahrain if we have achieved it,” advances team boss Toto Wolff. “We know that we have a mountain to climb to fight on the front. “There are no miracles in this sport,” he stressed. “But our ambition and determination are strong. Since this new course was charted, development has progressed well. We had several items on our priority list for this car. “We will soon see if we have taken the step we were looking for,” says the Austrian.
Regarding the car that started last season, the changes are very evident, Not so much regarding the one that arrived in Monaco, in 2023 and that recovered the horizontal pontoons and abandoned the vertical ones.
Completely different side view.
Except for the nose, where they maintain the thinnest cone in F1, something they already had in 2023, but I have trimmed it so that it aligns with the second plane of the spoiler, as almost all of this year’s cars have done.
It also has a lot of the Red Bull concept in the beginning of the ground and the sides, the great pending issue of these two years where the massive rebound was the hallmark of Mercedes in terms of dynamics.
The beginning of the ground, with a large area of suspended fiber under the pontoons It’s Adrian Newey’s line. The The air inlet of the radiators, however, is triangular, with a very original descending lower lip and differs from the thin and narrow one of the RB19.
The engine cover is ultra-reduced, as always at Marcedes, seeking the lowest possible resistance and the best flow over the diffuser. Back, The suspension changes from ‘pull-rod’ to Red Bull’s ‘push’, something that their clients, such as Aston Martin, McLaren or Williams, inherit and with which they expect better behavior from the rear.
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