{"id":415798,"date":"2023-02-17T03:30:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415798"},"modified":"2023-02-17T03:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T08:30:30","slug":"mercedes-drivers-complete-full-w14-shakedown","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mercedes-drivers-complete-full-w14-shakedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes drivers complete full W14 shakedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes completed a full 100-km shakedown with its new W14 at Silverstone on Thursday, but it was a soggy run for seven-times Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton and George Russell onboard their new machine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Signing off from Silverstone. \ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>To all our team-mates at Brackley and Brixworth who\u2019ve made today possible, thank you. \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait to be back on track next week. \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HnQeoMfvWy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HnQeoMfvWy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1626326591327404032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 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 &#8211; dominant and record-breaking force from 2014 to 2021, fell back to a shock third place last season and the W14 is the car tasked with returning title contention with Red Bull and Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been great to get up and running with the W14,&#8221; said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is always a much-anticipated moment for everyone at the factory that has been working so hard; I&#8217;m incredibly grateful for all the effort that has gone in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The day has been smooth; we got through a good programme, and we&#8217;ve come away with some useful findings. I generally felt comfortable in the car and I&#8217;m excited to get going in Bahrain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First look <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LewisHamilton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LewisHamilton<\/a> on track in the W14. \ud83d\udda4\ud83d\udc9b\ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CjzhyVTbX1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CjzhyVTbX1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1626316180892921861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Russell had given the Brackley squad&#8217;s 2023 car its post-launch track debut on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The brief outing \u2013 rumored to have been curtailed by a minor engine issue, however, was classified as a &#8216;demonstration run&#8217;, and the team was back in action yesterday for a full &#8216;filming day&#8217; on Silverstone&#8217;s short National Circuit loop.<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers reported that it had been a trouble-free day despite the persistently bad conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes completed a full 100-km shakedown with its new W14 at Silverstone on Thursday, but it was a soggy run for seven-times Formula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415799,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17511,17140,17139,16926],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"\"I'm excited to get going in Bahrain,\" said seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton","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\/415798"}],"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=415798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415798"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415798"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}