Mercedes new W12 F1 car unveiled: expecting to set a new record by becoming the eighth team to win two World Championships in a row
Mercedes has dominated the Formula One landscape for the past seven years, creating one beast of a vehicle after another, making the W12 the most significant car in the busy launch cycle since it serves as a benchmark for others.
The front wing is essentially the same as in 2020, but it's worth remembering how much the endplate is lent over in order to get as much airflow as possible flowing over and around the front tire (blue arrow).
For 2021, the front brake ducts have been greatly widened, with their total width expanded and the L-shape configuration from the previous season inverted (red arrow).
The region ahead of the sidepods has been modified as normal, with the forward-most feature in the bargeboard cluster (blue arrow, below) being raised, while the rest of the clu...