Hear from Mercedes' main players – engineering director Aldo Costa, managing director of Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Andy Cowell, drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas and Mercedes boss Toto Wolff – as they discuss the new W08 and the upcoming Formula 1 season. RACER's Formula 1 coverage is presented...

Formula 1's major rules shake-up for 2017 is "wrong for the show" and will only make overtaking more difficult, according to Mercedes engineering director Aldo Costa.F1 is looking to make cars five to six seconds quicker for '17 via the introduction of wider front and rear tires and a new...

Mercedes says its new Formula 1 car is more radical than it appears from the outside.The new F1 W06 ran in public for the first time at Jerez in Spain last week, with the design looking like a straightforward evolution over its title-winning predecessor. However, Mercedes engineering director Aldo Costa...

Outgoing Mercedes boss Ross Brawn says Formula 1's "extreme" 2014 rule changes are as big an opportunity as the 1994 and 2009 seasons that his teams dominated.Brawn was part of the Benetton management when F1 eradicated driver aids at the end of 1993. Benetton and Michael Schumacher leaped ahead of...

Mercedes has instructed new recruit Paddy Lowe to focus his efforts on improving the team's 2013 Formula 1 car as it steps up its push for the world championship.On the back of its second victory in three races, and indications that it has made a big step forward in understanding...

Paddy Lowe has dismissed suggestions that the Mercedes team has too many technical directors.Although critics have questioned whether or not Mercedes' efforts are being compromised by a structure that boasts Bob Bell, Aldo Costa, and Geoff Willis working under Ross Brawn, Lowe says his initial impressions are positive.Rather than the...