Thread: Mercedes introduced the car W04

Mercedes presented W04 car

The day before the first series winter test team Mercedes introduced a new machine. The presentation was held in the afternoon on the start-finish straight of the circuit in Jerez, but a new car journalists saw in the morning, when the team spent running W04 within shooting day for partners and sponsors behind the wheel sat Nico Rosberg, and after lunch, the car will be tested by Lewis Hamilton.

The team introduced not only a new car, but Toto Wolff as head of Mercedes Motorsport, Lewis Hamilton in the role of a racer Mercedes and a new sponsor - the company BlackBerry.
16:40 Moscow time Hamilton and Rosberg took off the protective cover. The machine is made in the usual coloring and began development last year W03 - it was built under the leadership of Aldo Costa and Bob bell.



Car has a new five-element front wing and the exhaust system of the second generation with the use of the Coanda effect. Like last year, in the front suspension uses pushers, rear - pull, which allows to optimize the processing of rubber. The step on the nose fairing is closed molding - team argues that she even managed to get some advantage from the use of this element.