News Details

Black car may increase overheating risk - Wolff

Jul.5 Toto Wolff has admitted to some concern about Mercedes' new black livery. The team boss revealed this week that Lewis Hamilton had pushed for the change in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. But there have been rumours that some Mercedes engineers are worried the sudden and unforeseen switch to black paint could increase the 2020 car's risk of overheating. "That's a good question," Wolff is quoted by Ilta Sanomat newspaper. "Communication and marketing are important, but if this hampers our performance, that's important too. "It should be 30 degrees on Sunday, and then we'll see how the simulations we do with the silver car differ from the black car in...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Mercedes to run black livery in 2020 F1 season

Mercedes has revealed a new black livery for the 2020 Formula 1 season as...
5y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Mercedes launches new livery to promote diversity

Mercedes have revealed a new black livery for their 2020 car ahead of the...
5y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Mercedes announce all-black race suits, rainbow decal...

< ► > Both the race suits of Mercedes and Formula 1's safety...
5y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Mercedes swap to black livery in support of BLM

Austrian Grand Prix – Mercedes AMG have announced they will run a...
5y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Aggressive testing schedule planned ahead of Mick...

Following confirmation Mick Schumacher will make a switch to IndyCar next...

Mick Schumacher joins RLL in IndyCar switch

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has announced that Mick Schumacher will...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Title advantage to Ogier as Sesks, Pajari star in...

After the opening super special stage in Jeddah on Wednesday evening, won...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Mikel Arteta Chelsea-Arsenal press conference in full,...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta gave his pre-match press conference ahead of...
39m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Enzo Maresca full press conference as he answers...

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has spoken at a press conference ahead of...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

PL giants face competition from Manchester United and...

Manchester United and Arsenal have reportedly joined the race to sign...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Chelsea handed massive boost as Enzo Maresca confirms...

Chelsea have been handed a major boost ahead of their Premier League...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

LIVE: 2025 F1 Qatar Grand Prix - Free Practice

Follow along with all the action live from the... Read More »
3h ago from RacingNews365.com

F1: Qatar Grand Prix: Practice - Times

Times from today's free practice session for the... Read More »
1h ago from Pitpass.com

Qatar Grand Prix Free Practice 1 - Results

Full results from Free Practice 1 for the Qatar... Read More »
1h ago from F1i.com

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.