Williams FW37 Mercedes

[Juzh]

Peter mentions in that video williams are now matching merc's gear ratios to avoid excessive tire deg from shifting mid corner. But merc ran shorter gears after the joker change last year (shortest of the field). Could they have reverted back to longer ones for 2015? No jokers mid season this year. Still testing though.

[Sevach]

Peter mentions in that video williams are now matching merc's gear ratios to avoid excessive tire deg from shifting mid corner. But merc ran shorter gears after the joker change last year (shortest of the field). Could they have reverted back to longer ones for 2015? No jokers mid season this year. Still testing though.

Since he's talking about tyre deg, it's more likely to be something related to 3-4-5 than 7-8.

[Juzh]

Peter mentions in that video williams are now matching merc's gear ratios to avoid excessive tire deg from shifting mid corner. But merc ran shorter gears after the joker change last year (shortest of the field). Could they have reverted back to longer ones for 2015? No jokers mid season this year. Still testing though.

Since he's talking about tyre deg, it's more likely to be something related to 3-4-5 than 7-8.

I don't follow

[Sevach]

Wasn't Mercedes late change about the 7th and the 8th? The lower gears more or less the same?

[Juzh]

They changed all ratios. The difference is less in lower gears, but still is.

[SectorOne]

Peter mentions in that video williams are now matching merc's gear ratios to avoid excessive tire deg from shifting mid corner. But merc ran shorter gears after the joker change last year (shortest of the field). Could they have reverted back to longer ones for 2015? No jokers mid season this year. Still testing though.

From September. By Hollus.

[Juzh]

They're sort of mixed. Forgot about ferrari. Was mainly comparing them to renaults from onboard shift points.

[Sevach]

So assuming both the graph and Windsor are correct Williams will have longer lower gears.
Edit: Bahrain T11, mentioned by Windsor, was a 4th gear corner for the early season W05.

But it's not a given Mercedes will go with this set into 2015, they only changed after Monza and Spa, now they'll need to take them into consideration too.

[PhillipM]

Venturing slightly off topic but from what was said about Hamilton listening to a Merc engine on the dyno this winter and recognising the circuit, the remark was 'that's one less change up the hill than last year' - so you could infer that yes, Merc will probably be running longer lower ratios as well this year, so that would be both williams and merc switching - which leads you to believe they've either found some midrange power from the ICE or extracted even more of a boost from the KERS.

[LookBackTime]

[LookBackTime]

https://twitter.com/WilliamEslerF1/stat ... 3352811520

[Sevach]

The rear end is impressive.

[Sevach]

[bucker]

In 2015 they can change gear ratios as many times they want btw

[ian_s]

In 2015 they can change gear ratios as many times they want btw

no they cant.

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9.6.2 Each competitor must nominate the forward gear ratios (calculated from engine crankshaft to drive shafts) to be employed within their gearbox. These nominations must be declared to the FIA technical delegate at or before the first Event of the Championship. For 2014 only a competitor may re-nominate these ratios once within the Championship season, in which case the original nomination becomes immediately void. Ratio re-nominations must be declared as a set.