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Mercedes had one day to make black livery call

Toto Wolff has revealed that Mercedes had just 24 hours to make a call on changing its Formula 1 livery for the 2020 season due to time constraints in readying the new scheme. Mercedes ran a silver scheme since it returned to Formula 1 at the start of 2010, as per its corporate identity, and was set to use an evolution of that livery for the 2020 campaign. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas ran with the customary silver livery – along with turquoise for title sponsor Petronas and a shade of burgundy for new partner INEOS – during testing in February. But ahead of the start of the delayed 2020 campaign Mercedes revealed a revised black livery for its W11 as part of its push to end...
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