Williams FW35 Renault

[aral]

Yes. Do remember the race is done at night.

It's not for that. They do wear them in every race.

I think it is useful for pitstops, make it easier to see where the wheel has to go on.

What? How does a yellow t-shirt help with where the wheel has to go?

[wesley123]

oops thought they were talking about the yellow color on the wheel hubs

[The Pj]

The new rear wing is similar to that used in Monaco.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2vpwtMOgEKI/U ... Monaco.png

[stefan_]

Singapore 2013 - Tursday (19.09.2013)





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[Sevach]

Looks like a new central hot air exit, let's see when the car is assembled.
And a triple element monkey seat.

The 2013 FW that was abandoned is there as well.

[emmepi27]

Some wings:

[wesley123]

They seem to have new podvanes, quite similar to the ferrari at the lower part

[stefan_]

Singapore 2013 - Thursday (19.09.2013)

[Francesc]

They seem to have new podvanes, quite similar to the ferrari at the lower part
http://www.formula1.com/wi/gi/597x478/y ... 9se280.jpg

No, they had them for some races already.

[gobjb]

Looks like a new central hot air exit, let's see when the car is assembled.
And a triple element monkey seat.

The 2013 FW that was abandoned is there as well.

Seems they've gone mainstream with the rear and filled the massive empty space they had above the gearbox.

[stefan_]

Singapore 2013 - Friday (20.09.2013)

[drunkmunky]

they kept the low end gearbox strategy for almost 3 years now and it has clearly not worked.
time to move on.

[Huntresa]

they kept the low end gearbox strategy for almost 3 years now and it has clearly not worked.
time to move on.

Yeah cause the low end gearbox is the source of every problem Williams have had for 3 years. What was the problem before that dating back to 1997 ?

[Sevach]

Perhaps putting all the effort into clearing the area was a mistake, you can have an efficient beam wing while still directing some cooling there, RBR, Merc and Ferrari showed that.

But Williams had a good car last year, it is hard to know exactly what went wrong this season, but i think the inability to make upgrades work has something to do with it.

They are using a FW from early last season because every model the team brought since has failed in one way or another. Their exhaust system is based on something they attempted last year and decided to keep off the car and their ramped style exhaust made the car a lot worst.
They tried a couple of different rear ends cooling arrangements, and in the end, they went back to the launch one (which was never suppoused to actually race, since they had ramps in the pipeline).

Right now this is a superficial change rather than a design concet change and won't improve the team's fortune one bit.

[PlatinumZealot]

they kept the low end gearbox strategy for almost 3 years now and it has clearly not worked.
time to move on.

They did move on. This years gearbox has much higher tripod flanges if you look on the pictures.