Williams FW35 Renault

[Randomness]

This system looks very improvised from bolts protruding out of the floor to the size of the tunnel. I wouldn't be surprised if Williams were more focused on finding out how the ramp itself performs, before deciding to further refine this system.

[zoro_f1]

[Blackout]

It seems bizarre to me that the team with the strongest, tightest coke bottle are testing a system that's known to impact the effect of the coke bottle.

You dont mean Williams, do you ?

[beelsebob]

It seems bizarre to me that the team with the strongest, tightest coke bottle are testing a system that's known to impact the effect of the coke bottle.

You dont mean Williams, do you ?

Yes I do... Which other team has a micro gearbox so small that they can basically delete the back of the car?

[Blackout]

The gearbox is bviously tiny. But it seems ''cocke bottle shape'' hasnt the same meaning for me and you.
I mean, the Williams sidepods seem to have a big footprint on the floor. One of the biggest.

[Owen.C93]

Looks like it has a big crack in it in that image.

[raymondu999]

It seems bizarre to me that the team with the strongest, tightest coke bottle are testing a system that's known to impact the effect of the coke bottle.

IMO it's vindication that it's the quicker solution, provided you can get it to work.

[stefan_]

Barcelona (Test 3, Session 2) - Day 3 (02.03.2013)

[turbof1]

Those bulges the ramp could almost account for a tunnel. That'll keep the exhaust gasses nicely concentrated.

[bhall]

It seems bizarre to me that the team with the strongest, tightest coke bottle are testing a system that's known to impact the effect of the coke bottle.

IMO it's vindication that it's the quicker solution, provided you can get it to work.

Not necessarily. The simplest solution, in my view, is always the better one. (And I'll take free flow over constricted flow every day.)

What this tells me is that the Renault engine just can't provide whatever teams need exhaust-wise without a crutch. That's evidently the trade-off for its better fuel mileage and reduced cooling requirements (and, to be fair, part of the price of non-existent development).

[beelsebob]

It seems bizarre to me that the team with the strongest, tightest coke bottle are testing a system that's known to impact the effect of the coke bottle.

IMO it's vindication that it's the quicker solution, provided you can get it to work.

My instinct is that it's the quicker solution, provided you have a renault engine.

[markp]

That this exhaust solution has been planned allalong it seems to suggest the illegal version of original exhaust meant othing. why did they do that?

[turbof1]

That this exhaust solution has been planned allalong it seems to suggest the illegal version of original exhaust meant othing. why did they do that?

Those fins would have worked too on the ramp. They probably were only testing it out of the exhaust air was kept under those small fins. I think if it was allowed we would see a fully enclosed tunnel (with the exception of the slot) on the ramp.

[beelsebob]

That this exhaust solution has been planned allalong it seems to suggest the illegal version of original exhaust meant othing. why did they do that?

My bet is that they tested both in CFD and possibly in the tunnel, and that they felt that McLaren's solution was better if they could use the fins, but Sauber's otherwise.

[Matt Somers]

That this exhaust solution has been planned allalong it seems to suggest the illegal version of original exhaust meant othing. why did they do that?

To stop the inevitable development of exhaust re-ingestion that other teams may have tried this season