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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.
The 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.
So the black silver arrows?
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.
It’s going to be wild if Merc gets their shit together and Lewis jumps ship at the wrong time. Time will tell.
Contrary 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.
We’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.
I understand that. I just find it suspicious that the guy who drives the car doesn’t believe in it enough to stay with the team that won him championships even though he saw it progress first hand.
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
It’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
The render makes it all look nice & shiny but it’s just an illusion, the black surfaces will be carbon for shure.
Really like the design, hopefully it’s also fast right away.
This looks good and weird at the same time. My brain is very confused
I like the contrast of silver and black. Looks like a ‘best-of’ of the recent liveries.
The red Ineos parts are still hideous, though.
On the plus side it now looks less like a dog’s… Erm… Lipstick.
Nice to see them add some silver accent, now wait until we see a real picture and not this digital version.
Quite like that teal strip.
