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Mercedes officially launches its 2017 F1 challenger

Formula 1 world champion team Mercedes officially unveiled its 2017 car, the W08, in an event at Silverstone on Thursday. The car had already broken cover earlier in the morning when it completed a handful of laps under the FIA's 'filming day' allowance with Lewis Hamilton at the wheel. "It is so exciting to see this thing come together," said Hamilton as he and new teammate Valtteri Bottas revealed the car. "From working in the wind tunnel, then they have this jig which is into real carbon fibre, you see it all come together, do the seat fitting over the winter and in the last few days seeing it all appearing, somehow they all just slot in perfectly. "Driving today,...
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