Why has Mercedes gone back to a black livery in F1 after just one year? The primary reason is to save weight - and Mercedes has gone quite extreme in this regard. Here's the full explanation:
The German car manufacturer revealed its new W14 at Silverstone on Wednesday morning, with the team electing this season to abandon its famous silver colours once again.
Rather than the car being painted black in its entirety, much of it is unpainted and run as raw carbon fibre. team boss Toto Wolff did not hide from the fact that the decision to be so bold in not painting its car has been driven by a bid to save extra mass.“We were overweight last year,” he said. “This year we have tried to figure out where we can squeeze out every single gramme. So now, history repeats itself.“Of course, when we changed the livery in 2020 the main driving factor was to support the diversity and equality causes which are always close to our heart.
Technical director Mike Elliott explained that a lot of the work done on the W14 was effort that could not be introduced last year because of cost cap constraints.
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