Mercedes has taken the covers off the car Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will drive in the 2021 Formula 1 season.
The W12 is an evolution of last year’s championship winning car which delivered the team its seventh consecutive constructors’ championship.
Last year the Anglo-German operation replaced its traditional silver design for a predominantly black look, in deference to its diversity drive.
Teaser images released over the weekend suggested that colour scheme would continue, but with a degree of evolution.
That has proved the case, the most notable difference being the three-pointed star’s omission from the engine cover in favour of AMG branding.
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Hamilton last year chalked up his seventh world drivers’ championship, his sixth for Mercedes, drawing level with Michael Schumacher for most titles in F1 history.
Victory this year, a distinct possibility given the stable ruleset, would move him beyond the German – ironically the man he replaced to join Mercedes in 2013.
Formula 1 pre-season testing begins next week with three days of running in Bahrain from March 12-14.
That is followed by the opening race of the year at the same venue two weeks later, on March 26-28.
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