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The Mercedes Formulation 1 group unveiled the livery of the W17 on Thursday 22 January on social media, however it is going to additionally maintain a launch occasion on Monday 2 February.

When is the Mercedes 2026 F1 launch occasion?

Monday 2 February

Native time: 11:30 GMT
CET: 12:30
PST: 03:30
EST: 06:30
JST: 20:30
CST (China): 19:30

Easy methods to watch the Mercedes 2026 F1 launch occasion

The Mercedes 2026 F1 launch occasion might be streamed on the team’s website. There will even be behind-the-scenes footage launched by way of the Brackley outfit’s social media channels.

Who might be on the Mercedes 2026 F1 launch occasion?

Each drivers, George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, might be current on the launch occasion on 2 February alongside CEO and group principal Toto Wolff. There might be a panel dialogue with the drivers, Wolff and reserve driver Fred Vesti.

Senior members of the technical management group are additionally set to be current to stroll via the 2026 regulation adjustments, and there might be a deep dive into the brand new sustainable fuels with Mercedes’ title and technical associate, PETRONAS, as effectively.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes

Photograph by: Mercedes AMG

Mercedes personal testing

Mercedes concluded its third and ultimate day of personal testing in Barcelona on Thursday 29 January.

“From a reliability perspective, it’s been an excellent week for us,” Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin mentioned in a press launch. “The automobile has enabled us to run the programme precisely as we wished every of the three days and that’s what we hoped for coming right here to Barcelona.

“It’s a enormous testomony to the onerous work of everybody at Brackley and Brixworth in bringing this automobile to life. We’ve additionally made good progress with a number of the challenges we noticed on days one and two and that’s pleasing.

“That mentioned, in Barcelona we have now solely actually been centered on proving out the W17. In Bahrain, we are going to change to set-up exploration which you’ll’t do right here when it’s so chilly. That may give us a a lot better concept of the automobile’s relative skills as we progress in direction of the 2026 season.”