The Mercedes team presented its new W13 single-seater through a live broadcast from its factory in Brackley after 10:00 a.m. in Spanish peninsular time.
Toto Wolff , team boss, and his regular driver partner, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, were present there. Once they showed the world the car with which they will compete in the 2022 Formula 1 season, the Germans traveled to the Silverstone track to put the W13 on the track for the first time.
Mercedes confirmed that they would spend one of the two filming days that they have by regulation on the same day that they presented their car. On this day the teams have a limit of 100 kilometers, which is equivalent to 17 laps in the circuit where the category was born back in May 1950.
Those of the star are thus the eighth team to present their car from this era of Formula 1, where a regulation has been introduced that can radically modify the natural order of the grid.
They have also been the eighth to go out on the track, after Aston Martin opened the season and others like Alfa Romeo secretly did their filming day in Fiorano and with a camouflaged decoration so as not to give clues to their rivals.
The German team made its debut at the circuit closest to the Brackley factory, with its pair of drivers at the controls.
“For me, the two best moments of the year are when you start the engine for the first time, which happened very early for us in December, and when the car goes out on track,” explained Toto Wolff.
“I’ve been at the venue the last few days looking at the incredible machine, and now seeing it complete with all the bodywork, it’s exciting,” continued the team boss. “It’s pretty spectacular, but I hope it will be even more so when we get it out on track in an hour.”
