New Mercedes W14 F1 Car Returns To Black Livery To Save Weight | Carscoops carscoops
After a less-than-ideal season last year, Mercedes-AMG F1 hopes to make a return to the success of prior years. To accomplish that, they have the W14, their new car for the 2023season. Driven by Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, the car is now clad in an all-black livery after going back to silver for a year.
Mercedes first introduced the black livery for the 2020 season as a show of diversity and inclusion, and continued that in 2021. For the regulations overhaul in 2022, they went back to the same silver they’d been using since their return to the sport in 2010. Now, they’ve gone back to black, but this time it’s for a different reason: weight reduction.Last season saw teams scrambling to save weight in any way they could, any many chose stripping back paint to save a few grams where they could.
Apparently, though, this is just as much a historical move for Mercedes as it is a tactical one. “When you look at where the story of the Silver Arrows came from, it’s that the Mercedes was put on track – the race car it was white, overweight, a little bit of our story last year – and they scratched off the paint, and it ended up with bare aluminium, and the car made the weight,” said Team Principal Toto Wolff.
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