What Does Mercedes’ 2019 Steering Wheel Look Like? Bottas Has The Answers!

You can never fully understand a sport if you only remain glued to the eventualities of a contest, such as wins or losses, points scored or lost, penalties earned or accidents saved. And when it comes to Formula 1, a sport ever embedded in high risks and pulsating action, a lot about the sport’s complexities can be understood by visiting its tiny details.

And akin to that Olympic torch wielded by an athlete who protects it all the way to the end of the run there rests the steering wheel in the grasp of 20 drivers from 10 teams in the high-octane world of Formula 1. And recently, one saw the Mercedes‘ 2019 steering wheel video, a piece of information that touches upon the tiny complexities of race craft in a special way.

Valtteri Bottas, currently second on the Driver Standings trails Lewis Hamilton, who has once again, emerged as the main threat in the 2019 season, took time off to depict the nuances of the Mercedes 2019 steering wheel.

That said, in the layoff period between the fourth race of the season, Valtteri Bottas explained the Mercedes 2019 steering wheel in a solid content capsule by getting away from the wheel of his F1 car and putting on an expert hat.

In an age where there’s hardly any dearth of sports content, few things can be better than visiting an informative F1 video, especially one that concerns the kings of the grid: Mercedes. Right?

Have you seen the Mercedes 2019 steering wheel video? Well, check it out here.

Robust design with clear specifications detailing various functionalities of the modern hybrid Mercedes F1 car covers the conception of the Mercedes 2019 steering wheel. The presence of the Strat mode switch, which according to Valtteri is his ‘ favorite mode,’ generates all the power from the engine to the car.

To that end, Bottas emphasized that depending on the racing situation, there exist various modes on the Mercedes 2019 steering wheel. The presence of the ‘PL’ switch basically holds the pit-lane speed limit to what is directed or mandatory, regardless of whether a driver goes all full throttle. This is normally set up at speed limits of 60 or 80 km/hour.

The rubber handles are custom-made and designed in a way that a driver gets the optimum feel of the steering wheel. Moving on, Bottas explained the rotaries that are used for the differential adjustment particularly during different parts of a corner. What this does is that it allows the transfer of torque between the wheels. This, along with several other features explain just how cavernous a role is entrusted on the steering wheel of a modern F1 car.