Honestly, of all the cars adding big swathes of black, Merc is the only one it truly suits IMO.
I know they're the "silver arrows", but I've never actually liked the silver livery. I always thought it looked like "we have chrome McLarens at home". So bland.
When they went black I was like god damn that suits them way better, they look mean.
24The funny thing is: in the old days of F1, Mercedes scratched off the paint for weight reasons, revealing the aluminum beneath. Hence "silver arrows". Today they are doing it for the same reason, only revealing carbon fiber instead of aluminum.
10So the black silver arrows?
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Aston Martin managed to work with the exposed carbon really well this year too, imo. There is actually quite a bit of it, but thanks to the clever paint job it doesn't look like it. One of my favourites this year, alongside Ferrari of course.
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It's going to be wild if Merc gets their shit together and Lewis jumps ship at the wrong time. Time will tell.
11Contrary to us though, he has had a taste of how good this car is in the simulators and still jumped ship. Time will indeed tell everyone but that's not encouraging.
2That's just not how it works lol
2We've seen how McLaren turned the tables last year. Merc dumped their zero pod design also half way the season, and they caught up quite well. So now a full season on a concept that seems to suit them better. Take a few good upgrades and who knows. Will they challenge RB from day 1 ? Don't think so, but I can see them catching up later throughout the season. Again time will tell, but I don't rule them out in any form or shape.
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Oh that's hot. Mercedes lucked out that they already have a history of using a black car, so they can get away with plain carbon. But part silver and part black works really well imo
Edit: hmmm, in this render the black is actually paint. I wonder whether it'll be carbon irl
10It'll likely be painted irl, at least on the more prominent parts of the car, but because it's carbon fibre underneath, you can apply a much thinner layer of black paint without it looking terrible
3The render makes it all look nice & shiny but it's just an illusion, the black surfaces will be carbon for shure.
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Different sidepod intake than what the rest are doing. Also the top of those sidepods looks really flat compared to other cars.
Anyway looks don't matter in the end, performance does. I'm glad they and Ferrari are doing their own thing in certain aspects rather than just copying RB.7I doubt these would be the sidepods on the cars they will be running in a few days.
2I agree. The sidepod inlet is very unique looking with the fillet feature on the bottom, similar to what I remember on the zero-pod car. The subtle water slide on the top of the sidepod kinda looks like last year's Alpine.
The lack of stays on the floor is another obvious change for them from last year. And I don't remember the big scoop on the tip of the front wing either.
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This looks good and weird at the same time. My brain is very confused
4Really like the design, hopefully it’s also fast right away.
3Quite like that teal strip.
2Really? I particularly dislike it. I think it's too much, too many colors. And it doesn't work well with the red imo.
Anyway I think I'm in the minority, most comments I've seen are positive towards it.0Yeah that's fine. People liked the VCarb livery, I didn't. Everyone has different tastes.
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Nice to see them add some silver accent, now wait until we see a real picture and not this digital version.
2I like the contrast of silver and black. Looks like a 'best-of' of the recent liveries.
The red Ineos parts are still hideous, though.
2On the plus side it now looks less like a dog's.... Erm.... Lipstick.
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