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Mercedes unveils 2025 W16 automotive forward of Bahrain F1 testing
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Mercedes unveils 2025 W16 automotive forward of Bahrain F1 testing

By Miles Cooper February 24, 2025
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The Mercedes Method 1 crew has taken the covers off its 2025 automotive, the W16.

Like its rival groups Mercedes had already revealed the 2025 livery finally week’s F1 75 launch occasion in London, utilizing an older mannequin. Now it has unveiled the launch spec of the W16 automotive that its drivers George Russell and debutant Andrea Kimi Antonelli will contest the 2025 season with.

With the W16 Mercedes is aiming to make elementary adjustments to its lineage of ground-effect vehicles which have confirmed very onerous to get within the optimum set-up window, and have seen dramatic efficiency swings from circuit to circuit.

“Our major focus has been on dialling out the W15’s slight reluctance to show in sluggish corners, together with the imbalance in tyre temperatures that made the automotive inconsistent from session to session,” the crew’s technical director James Allison defined.

The crew defined it has modified “each aerodynamic floor” of the automotive for 2025, in addition to designing a brand new entrance suspension.

Mercedes unveils 2025 W16 automotive forward of Bahrain F1 testing

Mercedes F1 W16

Photograph by: Mercedes AMG

Russell and Lewis Hamilton managed to win two races apiece over the 2024 season, together with a dominant one-two in Las Vegas, however at different instances they discovered the W15 a lot much less aggressive and grievance, and tough to stability.

That meant that over the stability of the season Mercedes struggled to maintain up with its fellow frontrunners and completed fourth within the constructors’ standings, behind McLaren, Ferrari and Crimson Bull.

Russell is now the de facto crew chief on the Silver Arrows after Hamilton’s departure for Ferrari. At simply 18, long-time Mercedes protege Antonelli will turn out to be the youngest-ever driver on the squad, with the Italian having been fast-tracked by means of its junior programme to fill Hamilton’s vacant seat.

“It’ll be a major change this yr,” Russell stated. “To be sincere, we are saying yearly we have uncovered an issue, we have solved it, and it is created a brand new one.

“We have in all probability been much more disciplined with each change that we have made, and being extra thorough than ever by way of the simulator working, simply to make sure we’re not going to fall into a brand new entice. Thus far, it is a affordable step. It’ll be fairly an fascinating season with how folks deploy the useful resource between 2025 and 2026.”

Mercedes will conduct a filming day with the W16 on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit on Tuesday forward of the pre-season check on the similar venue on 26-28 February.

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