Formula One 2020: Mercedes sets Valentine's Day date for unveiling Lewis Hamilton's new car for upcoming season
Formula One world champions Mercedes have scheduled a Valentine’s Day debut for the car Lewis Hamilton would love to take him to a seventh title this season.
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The team said in a statement on Friday that an initial shakedown run will take place in private at Silverstone circuit on 14 February
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Mercedes have won both the driver’s and constructor’s championships for the past six years but could face a tougher challenge from Ferrari and Red Bull
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The British-based team have the same line-up with Finland’s Valtteri Bottas again partnering Hamilton, winner of 11 races last year
London: Formula One world champions Mercedes have scheduled a Valentine’s Day debut for the car Lewis Hamilton would love to take him to a seventh title this season.
File image of Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton. AP
The team said in a statement on Friday that an initial shakedown run will take place in private at Silverstone circuit on 14 February.
The first of two official pre-season tests starts in Barcelona on 19 February with the opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 15 March.
Mercedes have won both the driver’s and constructor’s championships for the past six years but could face a tougher challenge from Ferrari and Red Bull in a season without major changes.
The British-based team have the same line-up with Finland’s Valtteri Bottas again partnering Hamilton, winner of 11 races last year.
The Briton can equal Michael Schumacher’s record seven championships and is poised to overtake the great Ferrari driver on career wins, with 84 to date. Schumacher retired with an unprecedented 91.
The 35-year-old said on Instagram that he planned to come back better than ever and was going to be “a machine this year, on another level than ever before”.
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