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Following up on the publication of the first picture of the Williams FW37 yesterday, the team's Chief Technical Officer, Pat Symonds highlights the development path of the new contender, admitting that the nose changes were more impacting than expected.
Lets see but I dont like when a team clearly says that they have had problems to adapt. They usually try to hide problems but in this case they have stated clearly their difficulties.Polemik wrote:@ Manoah2u :
I Do Not Agree. It is the same for all. Others have had the same problems as well. I understand that Williams had to grapple with that, but in the end, it is resolved successfully and has no deficit compared to last season. So, please do not panic!
I think all teams had a struggle with the new nose regs, as the impact on downforce and the rest of the car seems to be quite high (even RB, I read)Manoah2u wrote:.....
http://www.worldcarfans.com/11501218762 ... ---symonds
Seems like Williams have run in some bad luck here. I don't expect AMG Merc to have the same amount of deficit compared to the '14 nose as it seems Williams admits having. Let's see the other's solutions, though.
But anyway, I was hoping Williams could have made another step forward this year, but it seems like they've had to
deal with getting atleast back to where they were in 2014 after the 2015 rule changes seems to give them a significant 'step back'.....
There is nothing strange that man talks openly about the problems. Andy Green from Force India said that the change of nose cost their a lot of work and and that they had to get back lost performance. Exactly the same words as Pat Symonds !Vasconia wrote:Lets see but I dont like when a team clearly says that they have had problems to adapt. They usually try to hide problems but in this case they have stated clearly their difficulties.Polemik wrote:@ Manoah2u :
I Do Not Agree. It is the same for all. Others have had the same problems as well. I understand that Williams had to grapple with that, but in the end, it is resolved successfully and has no deficit compared to last season. So, please do not panic!
Ostensibly yes, you would conclude Mercedes have done a great job with lowering cooling requirements for the 2015 engine.Blackout wrote:Indeed, when you compare the sidepod cooling intakes and the turbo air intake size, this no good news for Merc's rivals...
http://www.motorsport-total.com/bilder/ ... 842169.jpg
I know it's a 3d render but it's fairly accurate: just compare the renders that F1 racing and Williams released last year with the real FW-36; the important details were very accuratly modelised regarding size, shape etc.
May be he did not drink his morning coffeeFrukostScones wrote:he is not convinced this is the render of the new car? funny guy
How many instances were there last year, in either Merc cars or with the customers cars, where Merc concluded that the root cause for the failure was overheating of any of the PU components? I remember Canada, where the temperatures went higher than estimated, which resulted in ERS failure. But it is general knowledge that cars are set up based on the available data on projected temperatures. The reliability problems on Merc cars were mostly on other parts like Spark plug, Gearbox, corrupt wiring loom, Freak Steering problem etc., So, there is no reason for Merc or their customers to worry about overheating and more importantly, they all have data from last year about their cooling requirements and the customers would have also received inputs from manufacturer about the new cooling requirements, based on which the Williams have designed, what appears from the rendering, a more aggressive car on cooling requirements.f1316 wrote:Ostensibly yes, you would conclude Mercedes have done a great job with lowering cooling requirements for the 2015 engine.Blackout wrote:Indeed, when you compare the sidepod cooling intakes and the turbo air intake size, this no good news for Merc's rivals...
http://www.motorsport-total.com/bilder/ ... 842169.jpg
I know it's a 3d render but it's fairly accurate: just compare the renders that F1 racing and Williams released last year with the real FW-36; the important details were very accuratly modelised regarding size, shape etc.
I guess we should also bear in mind though that the works team were not without their reliability issues last year. Perhaps they've underestimated the cooling requirements which would result in a red bull in 2014 like pre season