Williams FW40 Mercedes

[AnthonyG]

Where are the nosecamera's?

[Gridlock]

Where are the nosecamera's?

Gone from this year, the stalks anyway. Too much aero going on.

[LookBackTime]

A couple of things I noticed or think to have noticed:
-Wheelbase looks longer. This is why the car looks to be sleaker at the back as they have reshuffled parts to create a narrower cook bottle.
-Sidepod size seems to be the same as last year. However, the undercut looks much more pronounced.
-Huge turning vanes underneath the nose. It seems that with the increase in length, more regulatory area got freed up for the devices. Although being a launch version, they also look very simplified. Again this could be because they are the launch version, OR because the larger bargeboards have a knock-on effect and require less complex devices in front.

I will add: the front wing looks quite sophisticated !!!

[bauc]

Well, I guess the new 2017 season is now ''open''

Thank you Williams for showing us this photos, however I'm sure that this is just very basic rendering of the car (as always) and I'm a bit disappointed in terms of the this design as it reminds me too much of its predecessor. However that huge diffuser at the back and very well sculpted front wing (minus the ugly nose) looks very good.

[RedNEO]

I actually yawned during that launch video. Hopefully we've just had most of the boring car launches out the way once sauber launches.

[timbo]

Does not look very wide to me. Guess most of the width difference is down to tyres?

All in all looks nice.

[Blackout]

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[turbof1]

Does not look very wide to me.

That's because the wheelbase is bigger as well. Wheelbase/track ratio has not been changed that much.

[Gerhardsa]

I actually yawned during that launch video. Hopefully we've got most of the boring launches out of the way.

I kind of suspect a lot of boring launches tbh.

Nobody is going to want to give away any ideas or secrets with their launch cars.

[domh245]

The fact that the rear end had been painted white rather than black may have exaggerated the length of the car, especially compared to the legality fin. Roll hoop and airbox are also quite W07-y in terms of the separation into 3 parts by the roll structure.

[LookBackTime]

[Thunder]

Looks cool, but for now more like a 2016 Car blown up to 2017 Proportions. I like the overall shape of the new Cars, especially the Rear view is quite mean.

The Barge Board is suspiciously undeveloped.

Oh and a big plus on that Car (at least in the spec shown) is the abscense of a shark Fin. =D>

[Blackout]

And they've ditched their 'unique' williams shape for the rear hot air outlets. No more half circle, they opted for the hat shape most teams use.

[LookBackTime]

Airbox is wider and follows Mercedes design from the last year!

[RedNEO]

I actually yawned during that launch video. Hopefully we've got most of the boring launches out of the way.

I kind of suspect a lot of boring launches tbh.

Nobody is going to want to give away any ideas or secrets with their launch cars.

It felt like somebody just cooked that video up on a 5 minute tea break. Not even a real car just cgi and naturally aspirated engine sounds? They probably knew the video was so dull they had to add something that doesn't even exist anymore.