MADRID, 24 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Mercedes-Am Petronas F1 Team team presented on Monday the W16, the car for the 2025 season, the first car after the departure of the British Lewis Hamilton towards Ferrari, a car with “changes in almost all visible aerodynamic surfaces, a new new Front suspension and more changes under the skin “, with respect to the W15 of 2024, according to a statement.
“We opened a new and exciting new was in the history of our team and Mercedes-Amg motoring in 2025. We are building on the incredible legacy of our inheritance and we are eager to compete again,” said team director Toto Wolff.
The team has worked “hard during the winter”, after a last season “incredibly competitive”, although they want to focus “on fighting for victories more consistently.” “We have made advances out of season, but we will only know where we are in the first race in Australia,” he continued.
“We have an exciting driver alignment. Both pilots have progressed through our Junior program and that is a claim of our commitment to support and develop talent. George has shown that he is one of the best pilots in the grid, capable of competing to compete For the World Cup if we give it a car capable of doing it, “he said about the British.
While the Italian pilot Kimi Antonelli, 18, stressed that “he has all the necessary talent to achieve great things at the top of the sport,” 2025 will be a “rookie course and inevitably there will be ups and downs”. “However, we are looking forward to that trip together and help him develop throughout the year,” he added.
“I feel that last year was my best year in F1. Next season will be the seventh and fourth with Mercedes, I am working hard to improve year after year. We are incredibly motivated to improve, there is great energy within Brackley and Brixworth “Russell said.
For his part, Antonelli acknowledged being “excited” for debuting in F1. “It is a great opportunity and I am very grateful for the faith and trust they have deposited in me. My goal is to continue learning, be consistent and do the best work for the team,” he said.
The 2025 season marks the fourth season of the current chassis regulations and the twelfth of the existing power units regulations, therefore, in Mercedes they intuit that, in “a more mature phase” of the cars, it will be “more difficult to get big Earnings in time back. ” “We have focused on making improvements in the areas that stopped us last year,” explains the technical director, James Allison.
“Our main objective has been to correct the slight opposition of the W15 to turn in slow curves, along with the imbalance in the tire temperature that made the car inconsistent from one session to another,” he added. “This approach has led to changes in almost all visible aerodynamic surfaces, a new front suspension and more changes under the skin of the W16 to remedy some of the most challenging characteristics of its predecessor,” he added, “satisfied” with the progress of the W16 .
Mercedes will put the W16 on track in a ‘Shakedown’ on Tuesday in BARÉIN, before the official test of Formula 1, on February 26, 27 and 28. “It will be a very competitive season, I hope this year is even more matched. We will have to do our best if we want to fight for the championship this season,” Wolff concluded.