Looking to the future
Formula 1’s all-conquering leading team returned last week: twice. First, Mercedes revealed its 2020 livery and a new tie-up with petrochemical company Ineos – recently famous for buying sports teams in cycling, sailing and football – that modified the team’s colour scheme ever so slightly. Four days later, it showed off its W11 with a digital launch streamed on YouTube, before Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton took turns to shake the car down at Silverstone.
But both events revealed interesting indications about what modern F1’s best team is trying to do in 2020, apart from winning everything there is to win, again. This season, it seems, is all about sealing off the minor weaknesses the team has displayed, or others have claimed
