Mercedes F1 W05 Hybrid

The Mercedes F1 W05 Hybrid was the Mercedes-Benz Formula One car built to compete in the 2014 World Championship, the first Mercedes car of the sport's hybrid era. It was designed under the direction of Bob Bell, Aldo Costa, Geoff Willis and others around the new 1.6-litre V6 turbocharged PU106A Hybrid power unit, and the name marked it as the fifth car Mercedes had constructed since 2010 and its use of fully integrated hybrid power units. Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg drove it, and the car made its competitive debut at the Australian Grand Prix. It began a period of dominance that lasted eight years, and it took the drivers' title, the second for a Mercedes Formula One car in 59 years, and the constructors' title, the first.