After

Red Bull

and

Ferrari

it is time to see the Mercedes W14, the third favorite to win the 2023 F1 championship;

and with the aim of turning

Lewis Hamilton

into the most successful driver in history, breaking the tie for seven world titles that he has with

Michael Schumacher.

He will have Michael's son as an ally since his 23-year-old son Mick is the team's reserve driver.

"I am here to work, learn and try to help in any way I can," Mick said.

The German team will have to come back.

Hamilton finished the year sixth and without any victory, something that had not happened to him since his debut in 2007, and his teammate

George Russell

, who turns 25 today, except minimally for the honor of Mercedes, finishing fourth.

The team spent a good part of the season in the middle of the grid, and they were forced into a comeback that they intend to extend throughout 2023.

A moment of the team's presentation on a television set.@MercedesAMGF1

"This is the most exciting part, especially after the difficulties of last year... It's not the same car, we've all improved," Hamilton said.

"People don't want to repeat what happened in 2022, we want to win," Russell added.

The presentation had nothing to do with the one yesterday in the open air in Maranello, with hundreds of fans, violins, the Italian anthem and rolling the car on the track.

Mercedes preferred a kind of television

talk show

with interviews with the protagonists until they let the car be seen.

Mercedes' silver arrows this year return to the black of the W11, a message against racism, and a return to the color in which Hamilton won his last championship in 2020. It is also striking that the car is narrower, again.

Maybe more than last year.

Side view of the new Mercedes Formula 1.@MercedesAMGF1

"Have we made a good car? Will it be fast? We'll have to see that, we think so and these guys will help us find out," said team chief executive Totto Wolff

.

If he does not achieve it, he will most likely have more opportunities since Hamilton has already announced that he does not think about withdrawing, and Mercedes is negotiating with him the renewal.

There are rumors in the networks that the presentation car was a

fake

, something that was discovered next week in Bahrain, when the tests begin, to start the championship at the same Sakhir circuit just a week later.

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