Williams FW45

[Moctecus]

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[Henk_v]

The AM and Williams sidepods really are quite different if you compare them directly. Here's a quick animation I put together:

https://s9.gifyu.com/images/WAM.gif

Just have a look at the difference in frontwing area and add to that the Williams wing is crancked up enormously. Williams is sure depending on a lot of FW downforce for balance!

What are the negatives of having to depend on a cranked up front wing for balance?

-You're not getting the downforce from the floor

The front wing is the least efficiënt wat yo get downforce. Stuff is behind that needs clean air too.

Then there are few ways to get downforce from a front wing. Just cranking it up us the ugliest and missiest way of doing it.

[Moctecus]

[SmallSoldier]

Williams trying a lower DF Rear Wing during day 3 of testing:

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[McMika98]

Car was a handful today after going to lower downforce setup. The car is easily the weakest again in terms of downforce despite the highest wind tunnel times, not surprised the head of aero is gone. Solid midfield but they should push for high downforce setup instead of resigning to being low downforce merchant.

[Moctecus]

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[Owen.C93]

You can see the skate from that angle.

Also interesting to see how far the diffuser edge is from the floor knowing that it scrape along in some high speed corners. A lot of rear suspension movement.

[EJ22B]

2023 Williams FW45 front brakes:-

2022 Williams FW44 front brakes:-


Williams have completely revamped the braking system on the FW45 bringing it upto modern standards. Lots of weight reduction with the introduction of composite in place of metallic parts.

[EJ22B]

Williams FW45 cooling packaging

Image Source:-@WilliamsSupport

[EJ22B]

Williams has the shortest gap between floor inlet and the front axle. The front suspension is a key aerodynamic driver according to AT's technical director so it's very beneficial to open up the gap as the nine other teams have done.

So i don't understand why Williams have retained this design direction and could this be the reason why Williams are still having balance issues?

[basti313]

https://i.imgur.com/ji5i55z.png

If we compare this air flow with the RB, it is not refined at all. On the RB the flow around the side pod is a very defined vortex, here it just looks like it is all over the place and going over the edge. It might look like a similar approach, but it is not working if copying RB is the intention.
But this is a bit the issue of the whole car. The front wing looks like one from testing last year, there is no refined structure for generating vortices in front of the front tire like nearly everyone else uses it.

Sorry, but except for the front brake I can not see anything on this car that is interesting in regard of performance...rather interesting as a bad example.

[hollus]

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[EJ22B]

Drawing by Scarbs outlining the general features of the FW45.

[tomazy]

I think this is new rear wing, I am at work, so can't compare to be sure.