The W14 narrows and returns to the black with which the English driver achieved his last Formula 1 championship.
After Red Bull and Ferrari It’s time to see the Mercedes W14, the third favorite to win the 2023 F1 championship; and with the aim of converting lewis hamilton the most successful pilot in history, breaking the tie for seven world titles that he has with Michael Schumacher.
Having Michael’s son as an ally since his 23-year-old son Mick is the team’s reserve pilot. “I’m here to work, learn and try to help in any way I can,” Mick said.
The German team will have to come back. Hamilton finished the year sixth and without a victory, something that had not happened to him since his debut in 2007, and his teammate George Russell, who turns 25 today, except minimally for the honor of Mercedes, finishing fourth. The team spent a good part of the season in the middle of the grid, and they were forced into a comeback that they intend to extend throughout 2023.
“This is the most exciting part, especially after the difficulties of last year… It’s not the same car, we’ve all improved,” Hamilton said. “People don’t want to repeat what happened in 2022, we want to win,” Russell added.
The presentation had nothing to do with the one yesterday in the open air in Maranello, with hundreds of fans, violins, the Italian anthem and rolling the car on the track. Mercedes preferred a kind of talk show television with interviews with the protagonists until they let the car be seen.
Mercedes’ silver arrows this year return to the black of the W11, a message against racism, and a return to the color with which Hamilton won his last championship in 2020. It is also striking that the car is narrower, again. Maybe more than last year.
“Have we made a good car? Will it be fast? We’ll have to see that, we think so and these guys will help us find out,” said the team’s executive director, Totto Wolff.
If he does not achieve it, he will most likely have more opportunities since Hamilton has already announced that he is not thinking about withdrawing, and Mercedes is negotiating with him the renewal.
There are rumors in the networks that the presentation car was a fakesomething to be discovered next week in Bahrin, when the tests begin, to start the championship on the same Sakhir circuit just a week later.
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