planetf1.com

Mercedes are doing a "reveal" of the new car online in 3 hours time (16:00 GMT), ahead of the launch at Jerez.

Reveal rate will be governed by fans' tweetage.

http://www.mercedes-amg-f1.com/en/#/s/n ... ine-reveal

nice, looks like we need to get tweeting to raise the garage door. Wonder who's idea that was

What will happen if no one tweets

Hamilton will blame it on Button for not following him!

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Oh and Bernie, National flags should be raised not flipped. Sort it!

they will have to start the season with the W03

can we tweet already or do we have to wait until its 4?

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Not sure but it looks like they are saying the reveal will start at 4 so to tweet then, so it should show and raise the door in real time. It looks like everyone is tweeting now tough.

Cheer up. I've put up with 'FIA, Ferrari International Assistance' since I was in the womb!

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Oh and Bernie, National flags should be raised not flipped. Sort it!

This gives me a great idea for F1 races.

How about the amount of DRS available to each driver is driven by how many tweets are sent during the race? i.e. #HAMDRS

That'll make things a bit more interactive for the fans.

I believe that's in readonly's sporting regs.

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Oh and Bernie, National flags should be raised not flipped. Sort it!

There website appears to have crashed

yep. im guessing they not really thought about this much lol

yes it has

Tweet from Mercedes AMG F1: "Ahah you guys are LITERALY killing our website!"

What did they expect?

Ross probably bought some cheap hosting deal when he setup Brawn GP,

Crash on istalation lap!

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Lots of hype... then a letdown

Ironic really

Dear Mercedes. Please don't design your suspension like you design websites: I.e. It breaks as soon as it's under load. That is all.

This is why other teams used YouTube.

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It takes a man to pull teeth from a live one.

Kind of like a marketing trend or something.

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Kimi, the iceman.

sign of things to come

This.. Nice idea - but it clearly wasn't given much more thought.

hope who ever organized this gets fired.

Thanks!

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Oh and Bernie, National flags should be raised not flipped. Sort it!

Perhaps Ross Brawn pulled a plug on his way out........

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Oh and Bernie, National flags should be raised not flipped. Sort it!

the firewall most likely thinks its under attack and shut down

I think the Evil Dr Schumacher has taken control of the Mercedes website from his secret volcano lair.

I dont think I have ever hit F5 this many times on one webpage before..

thats not helping its most likely thinks its under a DDoS attack

Surely you'd be better hitting F1 in situations like this. Mercedes probably are!

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Oh and Bernie, National flags should be raised not flipped. Sort it!

Didnt think that millions of people hitting F5 would muddle the server into thinkings its a DDoS attack

EDIT: Tweet reckons there working *hard*..

By the time they have sorted it out, there will be enough tweets to fully reveal the car anyway.. !

I thought the car would be revealed on the 4th? I think today it is only a teaser, not the full reveal.

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Damn it, it just loaded now not responding

It's out.....

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Oh and Bernie, National flags should be raised not flipped. Sort it!

Same happened for the shit Force India launch. The only difference was it was plastered with 'HOSTING BY INTERNAP' adverts

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Damn, even my hosting is playing up!

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