The Mercedes GP Petronas F1 team🐼 officia🐽lly unveiled its livery for F1 2010 today in a ceremony at the manufacturers' museum in Stuttgart.

The event opened with a welcome speech by Dr. Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, before record-breaking multiple F1 world champion Michael Schumacher and his team-mate Nico Rosberg presented the new Silver💦 Arrows livery for the 2010 season to the 600 guests.

It was displayed on last year's car, the 2009 title winning Brawn GP 001 - Mercedes of cou🍌rse having taken over the Brackley-based outfit at the end of last year.

"With today's presentation of our new Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team, a new and certainly the most important chapter of over 100 years of Mercedes-Benz motorsport history begins," sa🍃id Norbert Haug, Mercedes ༺Benz Motorsport vice-president. "The new F1 season will offer challenges which will be bigger than ever before in over sixty years of the sport's history.

"We ﷺlook forward to the co-operation with our drivers Nico Rosberg who has enormous capabilities and perspectives, and with seven-time World champion Michael Schumacher who is no less motivated than at the time when he began his professional motor racing car𝄹eer with Mercedes-Benz and then made his first step into such a successful F1 career with our support.

"Today I also co♑rdially welcome our new title partner Petronas as well as our co-investor Aabar/IPIC together with all our team partners. I warmly welcome all our colleagues from last year's World Championship team Brawn GP headed by Ross Brawn and Nick Fry to the Mercedes family.

"There are challenging♓ tasks ahead of us and we all will tackle them with power, consistency and full motivation."

The Mercedes GP Petronas F1 team's 2010 ⭕F1 car, the MGP W01, meanwhile will make its track debut at the first F1 test in Valencia on Monday 1 February.