⚫️ The CLEVER reason Mercedes' 2023 F1 car is black

Mercedes' 2023 F1 car has been revealed and it's gone back to a black livery like it did in 2020 and '21, after reverting to silver in 2022. But there's a different reason for bringing the black livery back this time, and it's all about car performance...

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[krzysztofzwolinski]

Fia will eventually step in to prevent whole grid looking like batmobiles

[Full_Beans]

Next we’ll have regs on how much of the car needs paint.

[CandidaRosa]

Thank God Mercedes ended racism with the 2020 car

[antonfloor]

We all know Hitler also drove a black Mercedes because he was against racism.

[abx]

How am I getting F1 news from 2023, a few days before the first race of 2025 😭

[Grizzlie_ZA]

It's pretty much exactly the reason they became 'the Silver Arrows' in the first place😅

[roastingminer]

Next year gonna be a full blacked out grid huh 😂

[noelrivera]

This same logical process is why the silver arrows are silver. Stripping the white racing colors of Germany and leaving the sheet metal bare. This is actually a really cool historical mirror of that.

[philh]

Multiple teams with mainly black cars is going to make for great commentary… “the lights are out and twenty black cars scream towards turn 1. No idea who’s in the lead here, but whoever they are they’re in a black car…”

[mrmidnight]

So glad Mercedes painted their car and ended racism. I couldn’t imagine where this world would be right now if they didn’t 😅

[Taoukiif]

The livery is actually two tones black and carbon and i love the subtle contrast of it

[nako]

Every other team: "lets save some weight on paint"
Mercedes: "let me show you how its done"
But seriously, I like how honest they were on the presentation, Toto admitted himself its for weight reduction and when they were asked about porpoising, they also said "fingers crossed" its not a problem anymore.

[valconir]

That must have been the easiest livery design job ever

[jacoblewis]

This is very similar to how the silver arrows got there name when they took the paint off a car taking it back to the silver stainless steel

[GhibliNova]

Mercedes was originally silver for the same reason.

[JPFree]

I've just learned that Formula 1 held out a year to help fight racism... the way this guy nonchalantly says it just goes to show how crazy the times have got. The world needs its balls back.

[deadlybladesmith]

All of these blacker cars are going to make it much harder to tell who is driving. Red Bull, McLaren, and obv Ferrari are still easy to tell, but the rest have gone too dark.

[PLANDerLinde]

In fact it was so clever that it made no difference and they still created a shitbox that Alonso in an Aston can humiliate

[googleuser]

New 2024 rules will be "no unpainted parts of the car" and tbh it gives Mercedes an advantage for the weight limit its not as big as some might think but it all counts up in the end.

[pamanthanos]

no wonder this year almost all team have exposed carbon in their livery