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[Timstr11]

[Timstr11]

It looks shorter.

[TomNokoe]

Halo confirmed.

[Ivanhoe]

It looks shorter.

Not sure, might be the angle

[Zava]

when is it revealed? 

[JeePee]

Not sure, might be the angle

The W08 might be the longest car in the history of cars, maybe ever.

[TomNokoe]

From @MsportExtra on Twitter

[johnmhinds]

The name is nearly as long as the car. 🤪

[Timstr11]

No Ferrari-inspired side pods looking at this sneak peak: https://twitter.com/...587500968980480

Edit: it looks like the old car is being re-painted.

Edited by Timstr11, 22 February 2018 - 08:41.

[PayasYouRace]

#Drivenbyeachother sounds like Hamilton will be controlling Bottas' car and vice versa.

[Ragnar668]

 

ominous

Edited by Ragnar668, 22 February 2018 - 08:48.

[hodgy21]

No Ferrari-inspired side pods looking at this sneak peak: https://twitter.com/...587500968980480

Edit: it looks like the old car is being re-painted.

Was the chassis on stands at the end the sneak peek?

[JRodrigues]

Looks fast. (you heard it here first!)

Edited by JRodrigues, 22 February 2018 - 09:02.

[PalaceNick]

Looks like they've gone for a slight thumb nose from that angle. Maybe they'll be able to run in traffic this year?

[ConsiderAndGo]

Looks like they've gone for a slight thumb nose from that angle. Maybe they'll be able to run in traffic this year?

 

It's just the shadow.

 

They won't have a thumb nose.

[TF110]

Thankfully there's no thumb nose. But it still has to have the hal-no...

[Knowlesy]

Underwhelming.

[GoldenColt]

The nose reminds me of the early 2015 McHonda nose.

 

[JeePee]

Looks fast. (you heard it here first!)

Not enough rake.

[johnmhinds]

[Talisker]

 

That's it, I've had enough. F1 has finally pushed me away with monstrosities like this. Not the halo, but...that font (shudder)

[statman]

driven by each other?

[Knowlesy]

driven by each other?

Aye, Bottas is having his car driven remotely by Lewis this year to help him out a bit.

[Marklar]

Edited by Marklar, 22 February 2018 - 10:15.

[Mercstar]

Not expecting anything drastic, just a soft evolution of the W08. 

[TomNokoe]

Still longer than a long thing

[ConsiderAndGo]

Not expecting anything drastic, just a soft evolution of the W08. 

Yeah, its difficult to improve on near perfection.

[ConsiderAndGo]

Sporting a lower T-Wing.

[Ragnar668]

Halo looks better here

[Knowlesy]

As boring as expected.

[SonGoku]

Well, I guess they are pretty confident about their engine power, the rest of the car doesn't even look that much different.

[KongKurs]

 

This is mindblowing!

The photo suggests a completely new enginedesign.. In fact, if i'm not mistaken, I think the engine is mounted upside down in the new car! 

 

.. or maybe I'm looking too much into it..

[Andy35]

Halo looks better here

 

Actually, I had thought the dark halo's looked not as bad as I thought it would in the studio shots, due to the lighting to try and hide all the funky aero. Here is looks a bit more in your face again

 

Will have to see what they look like in motion.

 

Given this image though, the white halo's will look really bad.    Unless someone hangs some furry dice, a smelly magic christmas tree or  a Tom Tom off it.....

 

Andy

Edited by Andy35, 22 February 2018 - 10:36.

[Yoshi]

The Rims are looking also different on the front and rear.

Looking for more pictures  

[Jerem]

Looks ominous, dare I say.

[Anja]

I like that they added some more black. And that's about everything I have to say. 

[Retrofly]

No rake

[Ivanhoe]

The Rims are looking also different on the front and rear.
Looking for more pictures

Look the same as the ones on the W08 to me

[OvDrone]

Livery looks better, yes.

[f1rules]

is that it? well they had a very good basis i quess, now bring on ferrari

[Yoshi]

[ConsiderAndGo]

‘I’m not impressed with the Halo at all - if I had a chainsaw I would take it off.’ - Toto Wolff #MercedesW09 #Launch

[ConsiderAndGo]

It really does look almost identical to last years car.

 

Expecting a lot of changes next week.

[Andy35]

Ironically when people on here say "the car looks fast"  actually in this case you can say "the paint job looks fast" .

 

Nice work by them on that front.

 

It might just be vizflow of course, my eyes are old  

 

Andy

Edited by Andy35, 22 February 2018 - 10:53.

[GoldenColt]

[steferrari]

No Ferrari-style sidepods then... for now, at least.

[rootten]

No Ferrari-style sidepods then... for now, at least.

 

for good I think, othewrwise new crash test are required, and no one does that

[RPM40]

Quite evolved around the sidepods/bargeboard area. 

 

These cars are all largely soft evolutions though so nothing big to see

[rootten]

weren't the bargeboards suppose to be smaller this season? due to new regulations

[EndlessMotion]

Hard to tell if the wheelbase is much shorter, if any at all. I wasn't expecting them to shorten it personally. That would mean a pretty massive redesign of the entire aero philosophy. Makes sense to stick with a design that worked pretty damn well over the course of an entire season even if it meant having a few weekends where Ferrari were quicker, and just evolve the W08. I like to think they'll have made the necessary changes to iron out most of the issues they weren't able to with in season development last year.

 

Mercedes haven't really dropped the ball massively since the the hybrid era began. The only real weakness being the car suffered following in dirty air more than the Ferrari and Red Bull so as long they can continue to fight for the front row in qualifying, why change a winning design?

 

Unless one of the top three teams have a silver bullet up their sleeve there's every reason to think it could be an even closer season than last year, hopefully with McLaren starting to knock on the door too.

 

Looks like your standard oversized and underdeveloped pre season barge boards for launch until proper bits start to get bolted on during testing.