Mercedes 2010 F1 Launch

Witor · 25 Jan 2010 at 10:25

Best screenie I could grab, apologies for the quality but there ya go

Looks like a pure silver-arrows look. No Turquoise as rumored (Petronas sponsorship) apart from the rim edges from what I can tell.

GravyMonster · 25 Jan 2010 at 10:26

just put this in the launch thread, but may as well go here too

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From Jake Humphry's twitpic.

Malt_Vinegar · 25 Jan 2010 at 10:43

Looks quite nice!

JonnyGLC · 25 Jan 2010 at 10:48

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Witor · 25 Jan 2010 at 10:48

First impressions. Unoriginal but whats new in F1 these days. I like the "old school" number. Weird shading on the nosecone, cant really tell how much of it is down to the image being stylised.

Sumanji · 25 Jan 2010 at 10:52

The actual shape of the car is pretty sexy - I think the highlighting along the nose accentuates that

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Kevin Clark · 25 Jan 2010 at 10:58

Better pic

utajoker · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:01

hope mclaren go back to red and white

GravyMonster · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:02

^ That would be epic

Although it's more likely to be Orange without Marlboro or West being involved

Witor · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:11

That would be great imo. Remember their testing livery?

GravyMonster · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:22

Actually thinking about it, Santander are still involved with McLaren for another year, so the old red/white Marlboro style could still be on the cards.

*crosses fingers*

GingerNinja1989 · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:39

That actually looks rather nice.

Flibster · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:42

Not going to comment on the paintjob... too badly lit to see that much really. Car design is ugly... but it's a stretched 2009 car, so of course it would be.

Nice to see the wheels again though.

Blackvault · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:44

Flibster said:
Not going to comment on the paintjob... too badly lit to see that much really. Car design is ugly... but it's a stretched 2009 car, so of course it would be.

Nice to see the wheels again though.

Mercedes GP Petronas - 1st February - (livery revealed on 09 car on 25th January)

That's just the Brawn car from last year with the new livery one it.

Blackvault

Flibster · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:46

Blackvault said:
That's just the Brawn car from last year with the new livery one it.

Blackvault

So thats why it's ugly... it's the 2009 car.

GingerNinja1989 · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:17

Bare carbon fibre. I like.

Duke · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:22

Looks okay, will be interesting to see whether the 2010 is an evolution of their successful 09 car or a brand new design.

GingerNinja1989 · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:24

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2010/1/10359.html

Decent pics of that Merc here.

Sumanji · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:42

Dieter Zetsche has an EPIC moustache :eek:

Flibster · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:44

Sumanji said:
Dieter Zetsche has an EPIC moustache

It's great isn't it? He needs one of these to complete the image though.