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Mercedes unveils Hamilton and Russell's W14 for 2023 F1 season
- GPblog.com
Most of the car launches are now over, but two more are scheduled: Mercedes and Alpine. The former unveiled their new car on Wednesday morning, with which the team hopes to achieve more success than with their predecessor.
Mercedes unveils W14
After Ferrari pulled the curtain off the SF-23 in Maranello on Valentine's Day, a day later it was Mercedes' turn to unveil the W14. The German racing stable has tinkered heavily over the winter period in the hope of producing a more competitive car than the W13, which Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff referred to as a "nightmare" and a "sh**box" respectively.
The successor to the problematic 2022 car was unveiled on Wednesday in the presence of Hamilton, Wolff, George Russell and brand-new reserve driver Mick Schumacher.
Back in black. Meet the Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 E PERFORMANCE.
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) February 15, 2023
We're #AllInPerformance. pic.twitter.com/qKYiQiR6In
No paint
Like a number of other teams - such as Haas - Mercedes has not painted parts of their car to save weight. Paint means weight and that is extra ballast, making the car slower than desired. At first glance, only the front wing appears to have been painted. The remaining black on the body of the car resembles the colour of the carbon.