Williams FW34 Renault

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Did they race the exhaust system in Japan?

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WilliamsF1 wrote:Did they race the exhaust system in Japan?

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No!

Williams had with "super" low gearbox on of the tightest coke bottle area and with combination of small sidepods theay had serious problems with efective downwash efect.... so in my opinion they must find out another solution maybe tunel version or something else....
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It looks very well integrated, minimal concessions for cooling, but they still can't find an advantage in it.

I wonder if they will try it at Korea.

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Quick comparison between the bodywork and exhaust options

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In addition to the small ears in the engine cover, Williams also has to open up to bodywork near the floor quite a lot.
It ends up being being something of a mixed bag, with the coanda Williams get the exhaust blowing, but has to run a worst bodywork.

In addition to the normal exhaust maybe producing more power.

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Why do they need the the ears on the body work and what purpose do they serve? Thanks
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JayeOFarrell wrote:Why do they need the the ears on the body work and what purpose do they serve? Thanks

Extra cooling due to coanda exhausts and engine mappings

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Ozan wrote:
JayeOFarrell wrote:Why do they need the the ears on the body work and what purpose do they serve? Thanks

Extra cooling due to coanda exhausts and engine mappings
Thank you, much appreciated :)
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Williams FW34 - new front wing
Williams have brought a new front wing design to Korea with a different, wider upper flap section (1), modified endplates (2) and a new shape for the L-flap (3) close to the centre of the car. At Yeongam, the team didn't use the Coanda exhaust bodywork introduced at Suzuka.
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India GP - Thursday

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Matt Somerfield ‏@SomersF1 wrote:
Williams FW34 - Rear Detail (Also note the return of the floor/sidepod duct arrowed)
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After KOREA
[b]Gillan also confirmed that the two drivers hadn't been helped by the fact they had picked up debris in their front wings over the course of the race which had affected performance[/b] wrote:
“Both front wings had a lot of tyre debris excrescence after the race and this hampers their performance,” he said. “During the race Bruno also picked up some debris in the front wing which was once again likely to be tyre marbles, but thankfully it cleared itself prior to the pitstop.”
Beacuse of low temperatures of the track had all teems very big tyre degradation (expecially front left). And where are big degradation thera are also plenty of marbels all around of track.. So williams had problems with marbles "harvesting" :D and evetually cause front wing staling... And beacuse williams had very narow window of optimal tyre performance was that crucial factor in there performance...

So for India Maldonado sad that they understand the problem and they aldready put focus on that issue (here in India)... They want to strect the operating window much as possible...
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Front right wear, rather than left front degradation I would think. I don't think deg really would create that marbling.
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The sweet-looking monkey seat is gone! :(
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They use it on and off depending on downforce requirements, unlike some other teams where it's pretty much permanent.