After making history by winning the last eight constructors’ titles in a row and despite the regulatory change that threatens their dominance, Mercedes wants to continue at the top of the grid in the highest category of motorsport in 2022.
The star team will continue with the name it has been using since its return in 2010 and in this new season its car will be the Mercedes W13 , a car that will finally be presented on February 18, 2022 at Silverstone , a few days before of the start of the pre-season tests in Barcelona.
After five seasons repeating the line-up, the drivers in charge of taking Mercedes to the top in the first season of Formula 1 under the new technical regulation that will bring ground effect back to the category are Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, the latter to replace Valtteri Bottas, who has packed his bags in the direction of Alfa Romeo.
As for the decoration, the German team has not yet revealed anything at all. After changing its traditional silver color for the past two seasons with an all-black design in yet another display of its anti-racism stance, some rumors suggest gray could be back on the 2022 Mercedes W13 .
Although it is true that the presentation of the new cars always captures all the claims of the fans before the arrival of the pre-season tests, on this occasion, the continuity of Lewis Hamilton seems to be even above, since despite the fact that still He has a current contract that binds him to Mercedes , what happened in Abu Dhabi seems to have left him quite sore.
In this way, next Friday, February 18, 2022, we will be able to see the new single-seater of the German team for the first time, curiously, just one day after seeing the new Ferrari car, one of the teams that represents a greater threat to Mercedes due to the technical change that has been translated as a great opportunity for all the teams that aspire to reach the top of the championship at the beginning of this new era.
