Mercedes W14

[Venturiation]

This is the official Mercedes W14 car thread. The thread has been created to facilitate discussion specifically about the W14 car.

Please, ONLY discuss technical items of this car. Refrain from speculation.

General discussion about the team, its drivers and performance can be posted in the team thread.

Livery discussion also belongs in the 2023 Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team thread

[hollus]

Locked until Feb 15th.

[hollus]

There is hardware. Unlocked.

The car has been leaked. Credit to u/sidhantsv on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comme ... are_button

https://preview.redd.it/a54icw7lqcia1.j ... e7ea85d333

[wogx]

[pursue_one's]

They've integrated the wing mirrors and the inlets in one piece.

[f1jcw]

Reminds me of a stealth fighter jet

[zeroday]

So does this mean the Imperial March meme returns?

[Holm86]

There is hardware. Unlocked.

The car has been leaked. Credit to u/sidhantsv on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comme ... are_button

https://preview.redd.it/a54icw7lqcia1.j ... e7ea85d333

Wow, it looks really complicated that sidepod section.
Finally a really interesting car

[Vanja #66]

At first look, this design makes more sense overall and looks much better integrated than last year. I'm still not convinced this amount of outwash is sufficient, both for the floor vortex and rear tyre management, we'll have to wait for Bahrain Q to have any indication of peak performance.

Still, I'm expecting W14 a lot less than 0.5s off the top car, 2-3 tenths at most - if at all.

[f1rules]

They kept the strange low sidepod intake

lol like mentioned, its a stealth fighter, looks like they raised the inlet together with the lower, strange sidepod design from last year and made way for a nice clean undercut and flow, damm agressive it looks, like a rocket on wheels, what are the odds for mercedes --- up twice, not very high i think. And this is why rb, ferrari, and merc are a million miles above the rest, they can each make their individual concepts work to presumeably almost same level, all others just copy

[organic]

Wow this is really a cool development. I guess we won't have 10 cars looking the same as last year.. merc making big change

The floor is nowhere near as exposed as last year. Almost filling it up now

Zeropods are dead. Long live weird pods

[BlueCheetah66]

Less of a 'zero pod' design. Filling more of the floor space with the sidepod

[bonjon1979]

Blimey, that looks out there.

[MtthsMlw]

Didn't switch concepts that's for sure

[F1NAC]

Wow this is really a cool development. I guess we won't have 10 cars looking the same as last year.. merc making big change

The floor is nowhere near as exposed as last year. Almost filling it up now

Zeropods are dead. Long live weird pods

it is still zeropod. Reshaped, but same philosohpy.