Our reaction to the Mercedes F1 car launch
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What was the hosts' reaction to winning the Autosport Awards?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. If you're noticing a gravelly voice, it's when you go to places and talk to a lot of people and you project your voice and now it sounds like this. If you missed it, we're going to just start it and say right now, we went to the Autosport Awards last night, not hungover, neither of us are hungover, we were very sensible because we knew about this Mercedes car launch. However... My brain decided, you know what you need, Matt, at 7 a.m. after going to bed at like half two? It's some adrenaline. Why don't you just remember everything that happened at the Autospot Awards? We won. We won. We won. We won. And it's thanks to you because it was the fan vote.
We are creators of last year, I guess. Yeah, maybe, yeah. I still haven't processed it. My brain is very sleepy. But thank you.
Yeah, can't thank you enough. We did a little video on P1 Extra. Go check that out if you've not seen it and subscribe to that channel because, yeah, we just wanted to share our thoughts while it was still fresh in the mind and it's still very much fresh in the mind. It was an amazing night. So apologies that we're a little bit... groggy and tired, but we're going to be chatting about the Mercedes, of course. Can we call it a launch?
It's a render. So Mercedes, they are doing a car launch.
I believe they're doing it after when they get a car, but obviously so many of the teams are just doing these livery launches so they can say like, here's our design. They have the moment in the sun, but it's so secretive at the moment. There's so much going on with the new rules. There'd be so much changing. You know, Mercedes are a prime example when we went into 2022. I remember them dropping those renders of their car. Of course, they ended up with that zero side pod concept. It looked completely different. And do you remember everyone sharing those renders of side by side versus the real car? So don't be surprised if Mercedes have a six-wheeled car when it comes to testing or something, and it's completely different.
Yes, because they don't want to give away any secrets. This is not to show off what innovations they've done. It's to show off their livery, and that's about it. Well, let's speak about it. Let's speak about it. I really like it. I'm a big fan. I wondered whether Tommy is going to say, I don't like this, I don't like this, I don't like this. That's fine. I rolled over in bed, saw that the Mercedes had launched, and went, oh, oh, damn, that's hot. So that was my initial reaction, and... I like it. I've got it up here on the phone just to have that. I like the stripes on the side. I think that really does just sit quite beautifully. And it's flowing. I enjoy it. You know, they've got the little sort of symbols at the back, which they've kept, haven't they?
They have the stars.
When did they bring that in? Was it last year?
A long time ago, like 2019.
I guess they've had different colours to complement it. Yeah, because they did that AMG logo for a while, which was very bold. Yeah, which was definitely different. But I'm a fan of it. I like it. I think it's a good-looking car, and they haven't ruined it. We're going to start our post-award era with a disagreement. Oh, yeah, here we go. I saw it and I went, I don't think Tommy's going to like that.
No, I don't. I don't. I think Mercedes have actually... They're getting there with the whole silver and black. And actually, I think last year was really good. They don't have the red anymore for the INEOS. And I think that really helps with the overall car.
What are the details surrounding the Mercedes car launch?
But looking at this, the front angle, great. Some of the side angle. And I think when we see it on track, I know a little bit more as well of how much the silver parts... Ring the Tommy when we see it on track. When we see it on track, because it can change your opinion. But for me, I'm looking at that going... graphic designer calm down, you don't need to have too many ideas on one thing because the stars, as you mentioned, on the back, I don't like the stripes, basically.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What was the hosts' reaction to winning the Autosport Awards?
0:05–3:34
2
What are the details surrounding the Mercedes car launch?
3:34–6:39
3
How does the 2023 Mercedes livery differ from previous designs?
6:39–11:10
4
What are the hosts' contrasting opinions on the new Mercedes design?
11:10–14:29
5
What elements of the Mercedes livery do the hosts appreciate or dislike?
14:29–20:12