After winning the constructors' title in 2021 but also after having lost the drivers' title to Verstappen's advantage with Red Bull, the Mercedes team enters the F.1 2022 championship with the new W13. The team’s technical set-up has been reshaped with the promotion of James Allison, but the general management remains in the hands of Toto Wolff. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes driver since 2013, therefore faces a new season; as teammate has George Russell, Williams driver from 2019 to 2021, who had already made his debut in Mercedes competing in a GP with the German team in 2020.