A short video of the W14 confirms that Mercedes is the primary System One workforce to fireplace up their 2023 automobile.
Mercedes had a lower than stellar 2022 System One season. The workforce completed third within the constructor’s championship behind Pink Bull and Ferrari. It was their lowest end because the 2012 season. They gained the constructor’s championship every year from 2014 via 2021. George Russell completed fourth within the driver’s championship in 2022. Mercedes isn’t proud of these sorts of outcomes, so they’re working exhausting on the 2023 automobile. And it appears they’re lastly first once more. At the least first in terms of beginning their new automobile. The 2023 W14 Mercedes-AMG F1 has been fired up for the primary time not too long ago. It’s the solely 2023 F1 automobile to have been began so far.
A short video was not too long ago posted on the Mercedes-AMG Petronas System One Workforce YouTube channel. This video exhibits the W14 System One automobile taking its first breath. What it doesn’t present, fairly understandably, is far of the particular automobile. What plagued the W13 automobile that ran within the 2022 season was extreme “porpoising.” It made the automobile uncompetitive for a lot of the yr. That ought to be absolutely sorted on the 2023 automobile.
Drivers
The driving force lineup for 2023 will stay the identical for the Mercedes workforce. Lewis Hamilton and Russell will once more be teammates. Russell completed 35 factors forward of Hamilton in 2022. In fact, Hamilton has seven championships to his identify. If he is ready to win one other, he can have greater than every other F1 driver within the historical past of the game. He’ll want a greater automobile to make that occur. Mercedes is working diligently on the W14 to provide the workforce the perfect likelihood to achieve success.
Full Reveal
The Mercedes workforce set a aim of getting the automobile began earlier than the Christmas break they usually simply made it. However they haven’t but introduced when the W14 will make its premier. AlphaTauri confirmed they we reveal their new automobile on February 11. Aston Martin is predicted to disclose their automobile on February 13 and Ferrari is about to disclose theirs on the next day. Preseason testing is predicted to start on February 23 in Bahrain, which can be the placement of the primary race in 2023.
Trying Again
Hamilton not too long ago mirrored on the disappointing 2022 season. He was quoted as saying “Finally, I believe we began with a automobile that we didn’t need, and we completed with a automobile that we didn’t need.” However he additionally famous that there have been occasions of hope. “The primary huge step was Barcelona, that was our first trace of there being extra potential within the automobile.
It turned out to be a little bit of a false optimistic; the automobile was good there however then the races afterwards had been troublesome,” he mentioned. Trying again may be empowering however it’s now time to look forward. Mercedes has a brand new W14 on the way in which and the workforce and followers are in search of higher leads to 2023.
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