Weight-saving behind Mercedes’ black F1 livery as ‘zeropods’ remain
Mercedes 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:unveiled their W14 challenger for the upcoming seaso🐎n on Wednesday, 🃏with the car’s livery deviating from the German manufacturer’s traditional silver colour to a black design.
The eight-time constructors’ world chamಌpions previously ran a black livery in 2020 and 2021 as part of a campaign t💖o improve diversity and inclusion in motorsport.
A sleek black carbon fibre finish has helped Mercedes in their bid to save weight and give the drivers a more consistent car balan🃏ce.
"We were overweight last year,” said Mercedes boss 💞Toto Wolff.
“This year we have tried to figure out where we can squeeze out e💧very single gram. So now, history repeats itself.
“You will see that the car has some raw carbon bits, along with some that are painted matte black. Of course, when we changed the livery in 2020 the main drivi♛ng factor was to support the diversity and equality causes which are always close to our heart.
“The colour black became part of our DNA at tha💙t point, so we are pleased to return to🌄 it.”
Mercedes’ new car represents an evolution of their W13 challenger which was plagued by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:porpoising and bouncing issues.
The team appear to have kept the faith with their unique ‘no sidepod’ approach, w𝐆hile notable changes have be🅠en made to areas such as the gulley bodywork on the engine cover.
Much of Mercedes’ developmeꦗnt focus has been beneath the surface of the car and the floor in a bid to improve aerodynamic performance and correct their previous design mistake.
"Last year, once we had figured out wh🃏at we needed to do, it took a huge amount of work to get ourselves m♒oving forward,” technical director Mike Elliott explained.
“Towards the end of the season, you could see the performance improving and꧑ the winter has been a reset.
"We have done all the things that we wanted to do with the W13 last year but weren't able to because of resource constraints or becꦏause our focus was elsewhere fixing other issues.
“With this generation of cars, the performance is all in the detail. When you look at the W14, you will see the DNA of th♏e W13 but also a lot of💜 evolution and detail improvement.”
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