F1 W05 'SIlver Arrow' launched at Jerez (Photos)

F1 W05 has just been launched by Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team today, at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain.


The all-new silver arrow F1 W05 sports an overall design as an integrated project between Mercedez-Benz and Petronas.


The new F1 racer hopes to serve as a milestone product as Mercedez celebrates its 120 years of making motorsports cars and Silver Arrow's 80th anniversary. It is a landmark product for the landmark year for Mercedes-Benz.


Coming off from previous years' talks on innovation, the teams at Brackley and Brixworth came up with F1 W05 to coup up with Formula One's submission to the rules governing V6 Hybrid Power Unit. F1 W05 is Mercedes' integrated approach to performance upgrade in the F1 racing department.

F1 W05 is equipped with PU106A Hybrid Power Unit. It's a top of the line entry to address the new Formula One regulations - maximum race fuel allowance of just 100 kg per race, maximum fuel flow rate of 100 kg/hour.


Here's what Toto Wolff, Executive Director of Mercedes AMG Petronas has to say:

It is always exciting to pull the wraps off a new car for the first time but even more so at the start of this momentous 2014 season.  Our new Silver Arrow is the result of a single-minded, integrated approach between our engineering teams. My compliments and thanks go to every team member in Brackley, at Brixworth and also at our key partner, PETRONAS, for their hard work to deliver this new car and the Power Unit at its heart; it is the result of several years of intense effort. But we know that the adventure has only just begun. We have a busy winter testing period ahead of us and a long season where both performance and reliability will be critically important. Lewis and Nico begin the season hungry for success and I am confident that our team will benefit thanks to the continuity of their work during the winter period. We have positive momentum after our second-place finish last season. Our clear target is to continue building up our team and we aim to deliver on every single race weekend in 2014.

For 2014 we have probably the greatest change in regulations in Formula One history and the start of a new era for our sport ..From a technical and also a racing perspective, this is an incredibly exciting time for Formula One. We are introducing technologies that are new not just to racing but to the wider automotive world as well. The headline is that of improved efficiency and the fact that we will be completing races with advanced Hybrid systems on just 100 kg of fuel sends a great message about the technology that Formula One can deliver. But it is also about the technology that Mercedes-Benz can develop compared with our competition, both for the chassis and the new Power Unit. The whole team has done a fantastic job on the management of the project and its delivery. We have hit our milestones and hit our targets but, as ever, we will only begin to understand how successful we have been once we begin running in anger on track. The new car is an elegant but aggressive design and, as is often the way, its beauty is much more than skin deep; the internal engineering of the car is extremely innovative and intelligent. Our team can be justifiably proud of its work so far – but none of us are under any illusions about the amount we still have to do before the first race in six weeks’ time.

F1 W05 'Silver Arrow' is definitely a new thing to tune into, in the coming Formula One races.