Mercedes AMG F1 W04 (pre-launch speculation)

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Looks like they have gone for the tunnel type exhausts seen in the Red Bull last year and adopted by Lotus Renault this year. As I can see, right now only Lotus, Red Bull and Mercedes have taken this approach.

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Looks more like the ferrari acer duct than the RBR ramp to me... Anyway, difficult to tell given the pic.

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W02 is back :D
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To be honest it really looks like a W03 with a modesty panel. Unless there is some clever aerodynamics in the sidepod area which we can't see with this crappy photo.

I hoped that they had stretched the rules but apparently they just went for an evolution of a, mediocre (at best) and higly problematic in some areas, car.
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They're working so hard on 2014 they decided to cut down the old W02 :)

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Joie de vivre wrote:Image
is that from the wo4 garage...its a much clearer shot showing the top of the air-box and the RW...now all we need is someone who works for the NSA to run it through a pixel enhancer...lol

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Nando, don't be too hard on them.

It's obvious that they changed the airbox inlet as well as the nose by adding a modesty panel. #-o

Car will be at least 2 seconds faster than the W03 :lol:
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Did the best I could...

Rollhoop seems interesting. There is also some waves before the sidepod entry but I think it is just artefacts.
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Forza wrote:Image
Brightened cos I ain't got anything else better to do on a Sunday evening

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edit: nvm, delete post
better one from Lurk
Lurk wrote:Image
Did the best I could...

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Indeed. it not an W02 nor a 03

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=D> =D> =D>
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Lurk
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I dunno if it is a artefact (maybe side camera) but there could be a hole in the middle of the engine cover, kind of what they have in the W01

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