What can we expect from Mercedes? 

Top of the agenda for Mercedes heading into 2023 is ensuring that their new car is one tha🧔t is cap♚able of challenging for world championships again. 

Mercedes have spent much of the 2022 season trying to get on top of their troublesome W13 after battling excཧessive porpoising tha🦩t blighted their performance during the early rounds of the campaign. 

Unable to mount a title fight for the first time since 2013, Mercedes have found themselves with the third-fastest car durin💙g the first half of the 2022 season, behind rivals Red Bull and Ferra🌠ri. 

The German manufacturer will be determined to return to winning 🐭ways in 2023 and unlock the kind of competitiveness that saw the team record eight consecutive constructors’ titles between 2014 and 2021 and 🦄win seven drivers’ championships in the same period. 

Mercedes boast one of the strongest driver line-ups on the grid with their al📖l-British pairing of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, who require a car worthy of their talents. 

A change of car concept? 

Mercedes turneꦓd heads when they rocked up to Bahrain pre-season testing 🐼with a radical slim sidepod design - a stark contrast compared to their rivals.&n✤bsp;

While most teams have favoured a similar design route to Red Bull, Mercedes have so far remained faithful t🌊o their ‘no sidepod’ concept, which the team believes has bags of potenti𒀰al. 

However, Mercedes hav🌺e left the door open to the possibility they could drastically change their🌌 car concept for the 2023 season. 

Earlier this season, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes boss Toto Wolff insisted there are “no ho🐓ly cows” that are sacred on🧜 the team’s 2022 F1 car. 

Speaking about Mercedes’ concept at the French Grand Prix, trackside engi꧒neering director Andrew S൲hovlin added: “We don't think that just changing our sidepod will change our competitiveness. 

“We're certainly not of that mind, nor are we wedded to sayinꦉg this is how the Mercedes car must look.

“So from the very early part of the year, we’re looking at other team’s bodyworks and certa𒅌inly with a👍 view to next year, looking up and down the grid to see ideas.

“It may be that we don't just take another t🎀eam's idea. We're looꦑking at combinations of different concepts.

“It's a🔴 gradual process, but I think fundamentally oཧur car isn't going to change appearance massively this season.

“But I'd be surprised if next year's car l🍷ooks the same.”

Will Lewis Hamilton stay? 

One of the biggest question marks for Mercedes going into 2023 is whe🐽ther Hamilton ꦗwill extend his F1 career and race into 2024 and beyond.

While Russell’s future is clear given the 24-year-old ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ168澳洲幸运5官方꧃开奖结果历史:signed a long-term deal with Mercedes, Hamilton’s current💝 contract expires at the end of🍸 2023. 

Hamilton will be 38 by the time his existing deal runs out but the Briton insisted he still has 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“pl🃏enty of fue🌠l left in the tank” after becoming just the sixth driver in F1 history to reach 🎀300 races at 🔯the French Grand Prix. 

On the same weekend in Fr🍷ance, Wolff said with a laugh that Hamilton could continue with Mercedes for another “five to 10 years”, 🍬reach 400 races and target 10 world titles before he retires. 

Hamilton had previously said he did not want to♍ race into his 40s, but the seven-time world champion hinted he has since had a change of heart. 

"I firstly j🎉ust want to be grateful to get to t𝄹his point," he said. "I'm still fresh and still feel I've got plenty of fuel left in the tank.

"Of course I want to get back to winning ways and that's going to take time. I'm sure we'll sit down at some stage and talk about the future.🐓” 

Hamilton added: "🅠I'm enjoying what I'm doing, and feel really proud working with ⛦this incredible group of people.

"I'm al𒉰so enjoying working with the sport more than ever. We've got some great people leading the sport, we're having great conversations about the direction we're going in.

"I'm enjoying it more than ever."