Mercedes W14

Team Principal Toto Wolff claims that the W14 will have "different DNA" to the W14's predecessor,[5] the Mercedes W13, after a challenging 2022 campaign that had seen them out of the World Championship battle. The W14 was designed with a higher ride height with the aim to reduce porpoising. However, the car proved to be less competitive than expected at the start of the season, causing key figures in the Mercedes team to question the effectiveness of the car's concept.

At the launch, held on 15 February 2023, the W14 was revealed to have a black livery, much like its predecessors, the Mercedes F1 W11 of 2020 and the W12 of 2021, but unlike those aforementioned cars, the black livery on the car is not being primarily used to promote diversity, but to save weight after the team admitted to struggling with excess weight with its 2022 car, the W13, which had a traditional silver-painted livery. The black colour was created by leaving some parts as unpainted raw carbon whilst others are painted matte black.[6] After struggling to match the frontrunning pace of Red Bull Racing and Aston Martin in the first five rounds of the season a major upgrade package will be introduced for the Monaco Grand Prix, the team having initially planned to run the upgrades for the first time at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola - but this race was ultimately cancelled due to flooding in the Emilia Romagna region.[7]

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Year	Entrant	Power unit	Tyres	Driver name	Grands Prix																							Points	WCC pos.
					BHR	SAU	AUS	AZE	MIA	EMI	MON	ESP	CAN	AUT	GBR	HUN	BEL	NED	ITA	SIN	JPN	QAT	USA	MXC	SAP	LVG	ABU
2023	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes-AMG F1 M14	P	Lewis Hamilton	5	5	2	67	6																			96*	3rd*
				George Russell	7	4	Ret	8F 4	4
Reference:[8][9]

* Season still in progress.

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