{"id":412632,"date":"2023-02-15T04:52:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T09:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412632"},"modified":"2023-02-15T04:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T09:55:21","slug":"mercedes-unveil-all-black-car-for-2023-f1-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mercedes-unveil-all-black-car-for-2023-f1-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes unveil all-black car for 2023 F1 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes &#8211; dominant and record-breaking force from 2014 to 2021, have unveiled their much-anticipated new black Formula One car for what Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will hope is a bounce-back 2023 championship challenge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back in black. \ud83d\udda4 Meet the Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 E PERFORMANCE. \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;re <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllInPerformance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AllInPerformance<\/a>. \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qKYiQiR6In\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qKYiQiR6In<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1625788572774064135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Silver Arrows fell back to a shock third place last season and the W14 is the car tasked with returning the team to title contention with Red Bull and Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>It is the machine Hamilton will be bidding to seal a record eighth drivers&#8217; crown in after falling to his worst-ever F1 campaign in sixth in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes have promised an all-new &#8220;DNA&#8221; for the W14 after their struggles in the first year of F1&#8217;s rules overhaul and the covers were pulled off it at Silverstone on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The car is back to a black livery after a year in silver in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love being part of a team that is working towards a common goal,&#8221; said Hamilton. &#8220;I always believe I can get better. I always love that challenge, the physical and mental element, having to deep dive and extract more performance from yourself and the people around you.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join us LIVE as we unveil our 2023 challenger, the Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 E PERFORMANCE! \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mgCKknmzcD\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/mgCKknmzcD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1625783428929953792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>2023 represents the final year of Hamilton&#8217;s contract although the 38-year-old intends to sign on for what will more than likely be his final F1 deal, with team boss Toto Wolff indicating talks will ramp up soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car is always changing, there&#8217;s always new tools, and I love that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m planning to stay here a little bit longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pre-season testing is on February 23-25 in Bahrain before the season begins at the same track with the Bahrain GP on March 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes &#8211; dominant and record-breaking force from 2014 to 2021, have unveiled their much-anticipated new black Formula One car for what Lewis Hamilton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412633,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17511,16968,17140,17139,16926],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"It is the machine Lewis Hamilton will be bidding to seal a record eighth drivers' crown","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412632"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412632"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}