Formula 1 returns after its long summer break and Mercedes is celebrating and paying homage. The German team will contest this Belgian GP with a special decoration, in which it mixes its historic silver with vintage winks.
Thus, Mercedes wants to honor the 55 years in Spa-Francorchamps of AMG , the sports branch that was its old partner in the world of racing and that later became part of the company in 1999. The tribute of the German team more specifically it is towards the Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG , known for its color and its peculiar sound as ‘Red Pig’, which raced in touring cars at the beginning of the 70’s, when the German team was out of competition.
From that Mercedes, which stopped competing when the FIA modified the regulations of the European Touring Car Championship by limiting the maximum displacement, the W13 of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell for this weekend adopts a large AMG logo, a stamp of the 55th anniversary ( both can be seen in the photo that opens this article) and the numbers #44 and #63, which will appear in a retro style, in black on a huge white circle.
However, a different livery was leaked on social media which caused quite a stir as many believed that Hamilton and Russell would race a semi-red car against the Ferraris this weekend.
It is a replica of the W13 that will be in the Fan Zone of the Belgian circuit, where fans who come to the track will be able to enjoy that decoration that mixes the silver and red of the Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG. But no, Mercedes will not compete in red in Belgium…
(This is the Mercedes that the team will exhibit in the Fan Zone and that has revolutionized people)
Photo by: Erik Junius
Photo by: Erik Junius
Photo by: Mercedes AMG
The Mercedes Safety Car will also carry the 55th anniversary logo and this Thursday, the Mercedes-AMG ONE, the 300 SEL 6.8 AMG and the new GT3 EDITION 55, a collector’s item to commemorate the 55th anniversary, will hit the track with Hamilton. , Russell and Toto Wolff at the wheel.
Mercedes arrives in Belgium hoping to continue to draw closer to Red Bull and Ferrari in the second half of the campaign, having shown significant progress in the last few weeks before the summer break.
Following the push from the Brackley team, the FIA introduced changes to the regulations and these new anti-porpoising rules are released this weekend. Some believe that this will make Ferrari and Red Bull lose up to two tenths, which had to modify their cars, which would allow Mercedes to close the gap with them.
It will be the track that, from this Friday, will show if the changes in the single-seaters have been decisive in stopping the two teams that dominated the first half of the year or if Mercedes is still behind the favorites.
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