Mercedes have “borrowed” from past Red Bull F1 cars in the design of the W16, Ted Kravitz reporting they’ve just taken it to ...

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has branded the 2025 W16 Formula One car as more "stable" compared to the previous cars of the current ground effect era that Lewis Hamilton struggled with.

Mercedes’ Andrew Shovlin has revealed the team’s W16 lacks the “vices” of other recent cars created at Brackley. The Mercedes W16 has started life in positive fashion, claiming third and ...

In 2021, the marque announced that it would put the track-only W16 hypercar into limited production, embarking on a three-year development programme ahead of first deliveries later this year.

The Mercedes W16 has demonstrated significant promise in pace over the last few races, and Russell appears to be maximizing the car's performance, resulting in a strong start to the season.

The Briton lost brake-by-wire in his W16 and experienced transponder issues which saw him repeatedly vanish from the timing screens. This also impacted his automatic DRS activation system.