Mercedes have reverted to a black livery for the new Formula One season following their troubled 2022.
Lewis Hamilton recorded his worst championship finishing position in F1 last year after the Silver Arrows struggled with the sport’s new regulations. The Mercedes technical director, Mike Elliott, said: ‘We’ve looked at the problems we had last year.’
Elliott guaranteed that ‘as best we can’ the problems will not reoccur, saying ‘it’s all in the detail’.
Hamilton encouraged Mercedes to paint their car black for the 2020 and 2021 campaigns to send out a defiant anti-racism message but the decision to drop their traditional silver livery for the new season has been made for performance reasons.
The seven-time champion said: ‘I’m really, really excited and I know everyone back at the factory’s worked so hard to make this beautiful creation.’