F1: Mercedes W04 Debuts at Jerez

[Scott Webber]

AMG Mercedes F1 has revealed their car today at the test track Jerez and made it's beutiful debut on Track along with their new driver Lewis Hamilton alongside Nico Rosberg shortly after Nico took the car around the track a few time's feeling happy with the car & the car does look nice, well almost the same as the 2012 car, but don't be fooled much has changed underneath.

still they could have done a better nose job, it looks like they bluffed it and couldn't fully fix it before official testing, atleast the other cars are beutiful to look at this season, we just hope the rest yet to be revealed will be to.

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[Bram Hengeveld]

Unless it has some aerodynamic advantage I don't understand why they still have such a nose on the car.

Too bad the colors of the Petronas sponsoring are still too prominent on the silver arrow.

 

[Callum Jeffcoate]

Unless it has some aerodynamic advantage I don't understand why they still have such a nose on the car.

Too bad the colors of the Petronas sponsoring are still too prominent on the silver arrow.

The Red Bull RB9 still has a step nose, as does the Lotus, so there must be some advantage.

 

[Scott Webber]

never really liked the way the silver is & them sponsors, it ruins it quite bad, but gotta be done the nose is just aweful, was hoping all teams would eradicate it this season.

 

[Andrew Ford]

i hope i'm wrong but this car looks like a dog. i'm predicting reliability over speed.

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

What i understand, the stepped nose vs vanity plate is around 0.01 points of DF one way or the other. Very insignificant now that the vertical slits are now longer allowed to break the boundary layer even more.. So it's either long smooth nose with thick boundary layer = drag or stepped nose, thinner boundary layer and.. drag.. so it's really cosmetic.

IMHO some teams aren't taking any risks and check what the first test do with last years nose, then change to smooth one and if the whole package performs well enough, try smooth nose. Marketing department must be screaming in agony Lotus has some significant changes so it's easily understood, RBR has very little changes but is clearly WIP (that was not a real launch, they've past deadline but cooking up something borderline again to get the EBD working..).

 

[Andrew Holmes]

Is it me or are all of the currently released 2013 cars exactly the same bar the stepped nose

 

[Tony Gentile]

looks good I reakon its gunna surprise a few teams

 

[Tony Gentile]

Look out this car will show some teams up