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Mercedes rolls out F1 W08 car

The Mercedes AMG F1 team have rolled out their car before its official launch at Silverstone, enabling photographers to take a peak at the car while Lewis Hamilton put it through its first laps on wet Pirelli tyres. Featuring a slightly tweaked livery in silver and Petronas blue, the car immediately makes an impression as an already thoroughly developed package. It retains some of the key features of the 2016 car, including the rounded tip of the nose, an S-duct with a forward entry just behind the front wing pillars and a wide, but split airbox above the drivers helmet. Unsurprisingly, it is especially that wide airbox that other teams have been adopting on their 2017 cars. Mercedes also...
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