How do teams develop a Formula one car?

Bringing an upgrade to a Formula One car is far from straightforward… each component, no matter how big or small, requires many different steps to design, test, produce and hit the track.

So, how does the Mercedes team develop their cars? John Owen (Chief Designer), Mike Elliot (Technical Director) and Lewis Hamilton explain!

You can imagine how much work goes into developing the completely new car for next year.

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Leopold Pleijsier founded F1-Fansite.com in 2001 and has followed Formula 1 since the early 1980s. He writes about daily F1 news, race weekends, drivers and the sport’s history.

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