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Williams FW35 Renault

Team: Mike Coughlan (TD), Jason Somerville (HA), Ed Wood (CD), Xevi Pujolar (CRE), Dickie Stanford (TM), Frank Williams (TP), Alex Burns (CEO)
Drivers: Pastor Maldonado (16), Valtteri Bottas (17), Susie Wolff (reserve)

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Williams FW35 Renault

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joseff
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Looking at test pics where teams map pressure outside the front wheels, that may well be true. The whole vented axle, silver duct and wheel lip seem to interact with airflow coming off the endplates.

Slightly offtopic, I suspect the long silver tube and its shape has an aerodynamic purpose as well. Otherwise, why would they bother routing cooling air above and around the whole brake? They could just route it *under* the disc.

This is especially true of the rear, where the calipers are mounted at the bottom. Yet they route the tube round the back, bending forward and then into the caliper.
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Australia 2013 - FP 3 & Q1 (16.03.2013)

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Australia 2013 - Sunday (Q2/Q3/Race) - 17.03.2013

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"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe." Murray Walker, San Marino 1985
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Malaysia 2013 - Tuesday (19.03.2013)

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"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe." Murray Walker, San Marino 1985
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I always wondered why teams didn't have stands like that so that they could rotate the car and work on the underside easily.
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Gridlock
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beelsebob wrote:
I always wondered why teams didn't have stands like that so that they could rotate the car and work on the underside easily.
Designing a car capable of putting up with this, vs mechanics' back pain... Guess what wins...
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roadie
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ESPN news story...
http://www.espn.co.uk/williams/motorspo ... 03530.html
Williams technical director Mike Coughlan is optimistic his team will bounce back quickly from its poor performance at the opening race of the season in Australia.

Williams qualified 16th and 17th and only Valtteri Bottas finished the race - in 14th - after Pastor Maldonado spun off. After being knocked out of qualifying in Q1, Maldonado dubbed the FW35 undriveable and Coughlan admitted the team has taken a wrong turn with the development of the car.

"At the moment we don't have enough grip," he said. "That compounds itself in tyre wear and tyre warm up, so I don't think it's a specific thing to blame on the tyre. We're not producing enough grip."

However, when asked if it would take several races to solve, Coughlan added: "I don't think so. The car is so similar to last year's car and we've not changed anything fundamentally. Even though a lot of the components are new, we haven't changed anything fundamentally.

"What we've done is go down an avenue that hasn't reaped a reward and what we've got to do now is take a step back from that and look at some of the set-ups from last year and some of the aerodynamic things we did last year. Then we'll reassess it and go again. Certainly Malaysia will be an interesting Friday for us.

"At the first Barcelona test when the car first ran we really thought the car was quite competitive. We haven't taken it forward and if anything we've taken it backwards. Some teams have moved forward - Lotus and Red Bull have looked strong all the time - so I think we've got some homework to do yet."

After bringing two aerodynamic packages to Melbourne, Coughlan decided to revert to the launch specification of the car after the updates clearly proved to be having a negative effect.

"We went back to the launch [specification] purely because the drivers were more comfortable at the first test, and the cooling is a little bit easier with that bodywork, so we thought that was probably a better base with fewer unknowns. We'll maybe have a comparison again in Malaysia depending on the temperatures."
Seems like the team has just fallen behind, which is being compounded by going in the wrong direction?
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[-o< Australia 2013 = Korea 2012
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Malaysia 2013 - Wednesday (20.03.2013)

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"...and there, very much in flames, is Jacques Laffite's Ligier. That's obviously a turbo blaze, and of course, Laffite will be able to see that conflagration in his mirrors... he is coolly parking the car somewhere safe." Murray Walker, San Marino 1985
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roadie
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So they still have the old "Jerez" noses out there...
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F1 Malaysian GP - Thursday - 21/3/2013
Dickie Stanford wrote: VB car doing gearbox run now
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After seeing Stefan's pictures I'm so much happier to be using WD40 as well. :D
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via @dickiestanford: PM engine and gearbox run, all OK
Forza wrote:F1 Malaysian GP - Thursday - 21/3/2013
Dickie Stanford wrote: VB car doing gearbox run now
Image “The force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded”: [Obi Wan Kenobi]
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F1 Malaysian GP - Thursday - 21/3/2013
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Vortex generators on the sidepod shoulders now...

Does anyone know what exact function the air inlet under the engine air intake in the roll hoop has? I saw in the RB9 thread there is a duct to a radiator over the gearbox, but I can't see what the FW35's does...
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F1 Malaysian GP - Thursday - 21/3/2013
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F1 Malaysian GP - Friday - 22/3/2013

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