Mercedes W10 EQ Power+
Mercedes were the first F1 team (unsurprisingly) to give us a true insight into what the real cars of 2019 will look like as the team revealed its new W10 EQ Power+ contender at a private shake-down and filming day at Silverstone.
The W10 at the shakedown at Silverstone
Each team is allowed to carry out two Promotional Events (PE) per season which is not considered as ‘testing’ by the regulations. These are limited to only 100km and run on tyres specific for this purpose. They are labelled as filming days, but of course teams use these as an opportunity to do a final systems check before the first pre-season test in Barcelona. 
?The shakedown is a very limited number of kilometres and it is our first opportunity to find out whether everything we did in the factory has actually prepared a car that is capable of going round a track,? explains James Allison, Technical Director at Mercedes F1. ?The shakedown is our last significant opportunity to make sure that the all important 8 days of winter testing are as useful to us as they can possibly be. We don?t want those 8 days interrupted by any form of problem that subtracts from our opportunities to maximise our track running. It tends to be that the significance of the achievement of bringing together all of those thousands of bits in harmony for the first time going round a track plays 2nd fiddle to just the mechanics of ?lets make sure we are ready for the real thing?.? The W10 at ...