Mercedes hits the track with 2014 car Mercedes (and STR for that matter) 'doing a Ferrari' Mercedes has put the first 40km on its 2014 car by completing a filming day at Silverstone. Nico Rosberg was behind the wheel of the new W05, giving it a shakedown in cold but dry conditions. The car left the garage at 14.21 in the afternoon and completed 40km before dusk at 16.30. Under the current testing restrictions, teams are allowed to complete filming days on demonstration tyres, but the running will have been useful to weed out any teething issue ahead of its public track debut in Jerez on Tuesday. The team confirmed the W05 in question was a "full 2014 specification Formula One car". MERCEDES AMG F1 ‏@MercedesAMGF1 30m And stay tuned for something rather special this evening. It's visual, it's aural... we think you might rather like it... May get a sneak peak this evening perhaps?
Well I tried to get a still... please log in to view this image And from it I can tell you it has wheels...and that's about it. Actually, does it look like it's got a very thin, spiky nose?
It's better than I was expecting, as was the Renault V6 from the Caterham video. Neither are as good as the Turbo LaFerrari sound, hopefully that was the F1 V6.
Actual pictures of the future WDC+WCC champions. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Another picture is about to be revealed, but it's Mercedes ploy to reveal it on BBM rather than twitter...
Someone's done a hilariously crude interpretation of what the new car will look like based on the limited details shown: please log in to view this image
