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Lewis Hamilton is an English racing driver.

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21 Feb, 2016

Presents the 2016 Mercedes F1 W07

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Hamilton presents the 2016 Mercedes F1 W07.

And here we have my new baby. This is the vessel that’s going to take us to the championship. Even though they’re all similar, there’s a pretty huge leap in development, and that’s the name of the game.

A new Silver Arrow is born: Lewis Hamilton presents the 2016 Mercedes F1 W07!

7 Mar, 2016

Presents 2016 steering wheel

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Hamilton presents his car’s 2016 steering wheel. He says that he helped design the wheel, cutting 250 grams by slicing off the base of the handgrips where they meet the centre puck, unnecessary due to the way he holds the wheel while racing. There’s a large central display as in previous years, buttons for brake bias, DRS, pit lane speed limiting, three manettinos for engine/fuel strategy, engine mapping, and a central multifunction dial that influences everything from tyre swaps in the pits to cruise control.

I’m really proud of it actually, because when I joined this team, I took a lot of pride in trying to work with the engineers to lose a lot of weight in the wheel.. When I joined we actually had a big steering wheel…there was no need to continue connecting the bottom of the grip to the central part of the wheel…My favorite buttons are the marker button, for any issues I have, to remind me when I come back to analyse the data; the DRS and the pit buttons, and those to adjust the braking.

Unboxing F1: Lewis Hamilton's new 2016 steering wheel