FULL STORY: Mercedes and 🌌Aston Martin give 2023 F1 carඣs track debuts

You 🐟thought it was going to be silverꦚ didn't you, admit it...

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— Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton)

"I think it would be silly to say that I would want to take extra/get penalty points for speaking out on things, but I’m still going 🍌to be speaking my mind."

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“I have the experience 🦋of driving last year’s car, in the new genera꧃tion,” he explained.

“That means my approach to tꦍhe simulator is simila𓆏r to the racing drivers on track.

“I can talk about time models, how the car behaves. So accord🍌ingly we can chang🌌e and adapt the simulator quickly.

“Hopefully with that, we can get the team live feedback and a set of optiꦛons which will work well on🐟 track.

“I will take a🧸 similar approach, going to every weekend as if I 🌊am racing, keeping sharp.

“I w🎐ill see what I can learn, what I can🌱 take away. I will be as much of a help to the team as I can be."

"It ꦅdoesn’t surprise me. Nothing will stop me from speaking on the things that I’m passionate ab💎out."

"It’s goi🌌ng to go in the lobby but I’ve changed my approach a bit. I wanted to put it in the lobby as a reminder that you must not rest on your laurels, but I want to place it in the lobby as it is a symbol of boldness for me, and courage, we took a radical design direction last year and we dared, and we failed.

"So for me t🥃hat shows a lot about the mindset of the team, in how it is important to cope with success and failure, and I wouldn’t want us to goဣ in any shape or form conservative in the future. I want us to take calculated risks and be bold."

"I don’t think it plays in Lewis’ mind any doubt that the teaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚm can perform. We will. Evenꦚtually."

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• Merceℱdes set to change unique sidepod concept in future upgrades

"We are on the weight limit what or we wan෴ted to achieve and obviously when we looked at all the weight savings, everybody needed to m𓃲ake a commitment.

"So it is really a p𒈔erformance issue, but then there is not tonnes of weight you can save on the paint but it shows the intent of what we do and the narrative is just right, not only because of the൲ historical context of how the Silver Arrows were created but also our attempt in painting the car back several years ago is still valid. So it all kind of made sense."

"What y🗹ou have seen is, in large parts, the car we will test🐭 and race."

"It🅰’s not that we don’t want to follow ♍anybody’s idea. We stayed with the narrow sidepod.

"But you could see developments which couldꦅ come wi🐼th upgrades. The sidepods will change - not soon, but we are looking at solutions.

"It is not a core, fundamental part of pe𒀰rformance."

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“I love that challenge, the mental and the phyಞsical element of it, of just having to do a deep dive and see if you can extract more performance from yourself and the people around you, from the car that is constantly evolvi💙ng."

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"This year we have tried to figure out where we can squeeze out eve🔜ry single gram."