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Premium Collectibles 1/24 F1 Model Car Mercedes-AMG 2017 World Champion W08 EQ Power+ #44 Lewis Hamilton MW2ALA0058 is now available at Nastars!

(Packaging has mild packaging damages, but car is in great condition with no visible damages)

The W08 EQ Power+ is a machine developed by Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport to compete in the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship.

Mercedes made a full return to F1 racing in 2010 after a 55 year hiatus. They were one of the top 4 contenders from their starting year, but gradually gained in strength year by year, and from 2014 to 2016 they achieved double Constructors’ and Drivers’ championship title wins 3 years in a row. So aside from the changes to match new regulations for 2017, there seemed to be no major change in philosophy for their machine.

However there were frequent scenes where the drivers seemed to struggle with the setup as compared to last year, and where the car was fast in mid to high speed corners, it seemed to struggle with tracks that contained many low speed corners.

The power unit said to have produced approximately 936 BHP was the most powerful out of the 2017 machines, and it was fast overall throughout the season. With Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas at the wheel, they achieved a fantastic 15 pole positions and 12 victories out of 20 races. Again this year resulted in a double title victory for Mercedes, winning both the Constructors’ and Drivers’ championship titles.

Designed to maximize the performance opportunities offered by the new for 2017 technical regulations the W08 has specifically been designed to be versatile and have sufficient scope for an in season development rate expected to be among the fastest ever in Formula One.

Mercedes has changed the naming convention of its cars for 2017, dropping the word ‘hybrid’ in favour of ‘EQ Power+.’ The name EQ stands for “Electric Intelligence” (though surely that should be EI?) and according to the press release is derived from the Mercedes-Benz brand values of “Emotion and Intelligence”. EQ aims to make electric mobility simple, comfortable, safe and accessible for everybody. From the forthcoming facelift of the S-Class, all future Mercedes-Benz Plug-In Hybrids will carry the designation “EQ Power”. And the launch of the F1 W08 EQ Power+ makes the new F1 car the first Mercedes-AMG Hybrid to receive the “EQ Power+” designation, which will be used on all future Mercedes-AMG performance hybrids.

If last year’s W07 was all about refinement and elaborate, detailed evolution, the W08 project has gone back to first principles according to the team. With the car having to be designed before running the definitive 2017 tyres, and in some parts before the regulations had even been finalized, it was important to arrive quickly at a sound base architecture, while following a flexible, adaptable philosophy to allow scope for major developments during the season. With this in mind, only 17% of the components in W08 have been carried over from its predecessor, with the team’s main focus lying on optimizing the car within the new aerodynamic regulations.

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