Mercedes-Benz AMG reveals 2024 F1 race car

The Mercedes-Benz AMG System 1 crew on Wednesday unveiled its contender for the 2024 season, the W15 E Efficiency.

The automotive would be the ultimate Mercedes F1 automotive pushed by Lewis Hamilton earlier than the seven-time world champion makes the change to Ferrari in 2025. Hamilton will drive alongside George Russell as soon as once more, with Mick Schumacher and Fred Vesti serving as reserve drivers. Toto Wolff, one of many crew’s fundamental shareholders, stays crew principal.

There are excessive hopes driving on the W15 as Mercedes hasn’t delivered a aggressive automotive for the reason that 2021 season. The W15 has been significantly altered from final 12 months’s W14, regardless of the design guidelines largely carrying over unchanged.

There is a new chassis, new transmission casing, and new underbody aerodynamics, in addition to adjustments made to enhance what Mercedes describes as an “unpredictable rear axle” on the earlier automotive. Some silver returns to the automotive’s livery, although many areas hold the uncovered carbon-fiber look that dominated the earlier automotive, a transfer made to avoid wasting weight by skipping paint.

2024 Mercedes-Benz AMG W15 E Efficiency System 1 race automotive

The foundations for energy unit designs are fastened throughout all groups in an effort to permit them to put money into improvement of energy items to satisfy new design guidelines being launched in 2026. Some adjustments can nonetheless be made throughout the present rules, although, significantly on the subject of enhancing reliability, one thing that can be significantly necessary this season given the file 24 races on the calendar.

Mercedes makes use of its personal energy unit, which in step with the principles consists of a turbocharged 1.6-liter V-6 working together with two motor-generators, one on the driveline and one other built-in with the turbo. Peak output is within the neighborhood of 1,000 hp. Mercedes additionally provides energy items to Aston Martin, McLaren, and Williams.

The W15 is because of make its preliminary shakedown on the Silverstone Circuit within the U.Ok. later at this time. It should then head to the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit for pre-seaon testing operating Feb. 21-23. The primary race of the brand new season, the Bahrain Grand Prix, will happen on the similar circuit on March 2.