Mercedes have revealed their eagerly-anticipated 2024 F1 challenger, the W15.

The W15 - which will be driven by168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell - represents a drastic change to its predecessor, the W14😼, which was effectively an evolution of Mercedes’ troubܫled 2022 machine.

It features a striking new silver and black livery combinatio🧸n.&nbs🐎p;

Mercedes have made expansive modifications to the architecture of the W15 for the 2024 season, which will be Hamilton’s last term with the German manufacturer befo🔯re he makes the switch to Ferrari.

Part of Meꦑrcedes’ direction change with their new challenger sees a switch to a pushrod rear suspension, having been one of the few teams to favour a pull-rod layout in 2023.

"The design of any car is an i🐟terative process. And a long one at that," Mercedes technical director James Allison explained. "It stretches back to last year. 

"A new car enables the team tꦬo make bigger alterations that are not possible du♑ring the season. These are decisions that are taken during the preceding summer.

"A big focus has been on improving the previous car's unpredictable rear axle. We have worked hard to ensure that both a✃xles, but particularly the rear axle,𒈔 retain better control of the tyre than on the W14. 

"There's also been some housekeeping on a🌞reas in which we had room for improvement, including the DRS effect, and pit stop performance."

Hamilton and Russell will sꦕhakedown the new W15 today at Silverstone. 

Mercedes edged Ferrari to second place in the constructors’ stan🥀dings last year and will hope the W15 can bring them back into race and title-winning contention after suffering their fi🍨rst victory-less campaign in over a decade.

Whether th💛e changes will be enough to bring ꦕMercedes on a level par with Red Bull, who have dominated the last two F1 campaigns, remains to be seen.

Red Bull will be the 10th and final team to unveilไ their 2024 challenger - the RB20 - on Thursday.

Pre-season testing gets underway next week in Bahrain, before the seaso𒈔n-opening grand prix on Marcꦅh 2.