Mercedes F1 W05 Pre-launch Speculation

[Holm86]

With some motion blur removal in photoshop:
http://s4.postimg.org/vt1e6laot/merc.jpg

Nose looks Ferrariesque, but with a less extreme low tip. But it's hard to draw too many conclusions from a picture this low quality.

Nose doesn't seem as low at the Ferrari on this image though.

[dren]

Only one more day to find out.... I'm leaning towards a SDN, though.

[stefan_]

Camera pods looks like Ferrari, even little bit higher.

Almost like BMW's horns I would say.

[zioture]

It looks like the ferrari in the frame

[dren]

With sidepod strakes.

[Frafer]

formula 1 is not a beauty contest but this is not going to be the most good looking car of all times, as f14t i gotta say

[heimana]

Is this a fake? the sidepods are the sames of 2013! the engine cover in the video is grey while in the pcitures to tease the W05 it is black. just the nose and the rear wing changed

[PhillipM]

Ferrari style knick with schlang ...this one will not be pretty...

Yep, looks like it kinks down then has a small stub...

[Dyanxx]

Darren Heath ‏@F1Photographer 24m
#F1 #Mercedes 'nose' (to be launched @ Jerez tomorrow) different approach to those launched already.... I understand!

So does that mean the nose we see tomorrow, will be completely different to the one we can barely see in the video they posted today?

[diego.liv]

Now they got 2 longer elements (a-la-everyone-else, Ferr-Lotus-RB 2013) rather than a single one (added in Hungary maybe) in the FW
At 0:03, at your right

[geraldix]

Not dissimilar to the W01....

http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz17 ... 1-nose.jpg

Now THAT was a pretty nosecone. Is the "V nose " arrangement prohibited nowadays, or what?

[Crabbia]

i thought the camera position was fixed this year for every car. shouldn't the camera pods in the comparison line up if it was taken from the same angle/ perspective.

[heimana]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/ ... addd73430a

[Rhodium]

it can be a "multi step" on the nose.
why not something like that ?

[atanatizante]

They went to the Ferrari route with the DRS flap ...