WilliamsF1 launched their 2006 season race car, the FW28, at their headquarters near Oxford this afternoon. The FW28 is a manifestly purposeful race car, its defining visual cue being the aggressive barbed sting on the back of the engine cover. With new engine supplier Cosworth and tyre company Bridgestone, the team aims to push forward as the best independent team in F1.
The nose, the triple element front wing, the high undercut sidepods, zero keel!.....its looks very mp4-20ish. It looks nothin like previous williiams'.zac510 wrote:What part of it looks like an MP4/20??
Put them next to each other and I bet you couldn't tell me.
It has a triple element front wing, thats about the only similarity. oh and it has 4 wheels.
What do they consider by "seamless"?Alongside the new V8 powerplant in the drivetrain design strategy has been the progression of Williams seamless shift technology which is anticipated to come on stream in the early part of the 2006 season. This seven-speed continuous torque gearbox owes much of its development progression to the joint validation work conducted on Cosworth’s dynos in Northampton, indicative of the depth and strength of the technical partnership. Seamless transmission can be worth up to 0.4 seconds over the course of an average racing lap.
How can you say the nose looks nothing like a mclaren mp4-20? It looks very similar, it has the same concept with maybe a few alterations on the width at the bottom of it or whatever.zac510 wrote:The nose looks nothing like the McLaren one. It looks more like a Ferrari nose, if you insist on drawing a comparison as the only analysis you can make!
The nose has the same concept, it swoops the same, only little difference is at certain points the williams nose is not as wide as the mclaren. The concept is still teh same however with the low swooping effect onto the 3rd element wing.zac510 wrote:Here's a photo of MP4/20:
http://www.f1-fansite.com/wallpaper/200 ... 0-1600.jpg
Here's a photo of FW28 nose:
http://www.f1total.com//bilder/2006/pra ... //z023.jpg
I'm not anti-McLaren at all, I just don't see the similarity!
manchild, I love the really big cutout in the engine cover. Pushing the bodywork rules
I think that gearbox ends before the rear wheels and that most that follows back is diff and necessary suspension fixture points.joseff wrote:The triple element front wing isn't shatteringly new... we've seen it on and off the FW26. The shape is very Williams.
I have to admit though, the nose looks very MP4-20. Ditto the sidepod inlets.
Now can we move on to more interesting topics please... like the gearbox?
