Mercedes will present their new car for the 2025 Formula 1 season on February 24th.
The team has opted for an online presentation for its new W16 by distributing images across its many platforms. Mercedes will reveal the car’s livery a week earlier at F1’s new official pre-season launch event, F1 75, on February 18th.Mercedes intend to run the W16 for the first time the following day, when it will also reveal more footage of the new car. Both the team’s drivers are expected to have the opportunity to drive. George Russell is going into his fourth season at the team while Andrea Kimi Antonelli makes his debut in Formula 1, taking over the seat previously occupied by Lewis Hamilton.
The team will break with its recent tradition by running its new car for the first time at the Bahrain International Circuit instead of Silverstone, close to its Brackley and Brixworth factories. The W16’s first run will take place one day before the beginning of pre-season testing at the same track. Last year Mercedes launched its new car a full week before testing began.
F1 teams will test for three days in Bahrain, starting on the 26th, before heading to Melbourne, Australia for the season-opening race in mid-March.
Mercedes will go into the new season looking for their first world championship success since 2021, when they won the constructors’ title with Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. Last year McLaren won the constructors’ championship using Mercedes power units. Williams, who also use Mercedes power, have already announced the launch date for their new car, which will appear on February 14th. Aston Martin will use Mercedes power units for the last time this year before switching to Honda engines.
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dot_com (@dot_com)
27th January 2025, 11:52
I’m glad that the teams are still choosing to do their own proper car reveals. I was worrying that all we would get this year was the awful combined launch event.
Coventry Climax
27th January 2025, 13:16
Yep, great to see they are, one after the other, effectively ubdermining the fake, joint presentation show.
So next, I expect the FiA to announce repercussions for teams presenting their cars outside of or prior to that show.
BamBoomBots
27th January 2025, 15:42
Wouldn’t it just be hilarious if Red Bull in that case just showed up with a demo car like the RB7? When questioned by the FIA, the reply could just be something like: ‘yeah it’s a bit of an intermediate version of the car which is still under development. The final version will look different, but the liveries match. The engine? Yeah that’s just a cheaper and less complicated stop gap for testing, you know, we have to think about the budget cap too as you will undoubtedly understand.’
anon
27th January 2025, 22:17
Coventry Climax, given that it was announced from the start that the event was mainly a joint livery reveal, they’re not really undermining it and neither the FIA nor Liberty Media seem to particularly care about it as an issue.
In reality, the only ones who seem to particularly care are individuals like yourself that are looking for excuses to get wound up about the event and moan about it.
Coventry Climax
28th January 2025, 10:55
With teams going ahead of that, it’s no longer a ‘reveal’, is it? And certainly not joint.
What’s the purpose of coming up with the thing in the first place, if ‘neither the FIA nor Liberty Media seem to particularly care about it as an issue’ when teams simply ignoring it – and them.
Those two parties and coming up with a ‘great idea’ that everyone subsequently ignores?
I just can’t see them liking that very much.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
27th January 2025, 20:57
George will be sweating blood.
Antonelli will be glad he has an excuse.