Williams FW36 Mercedes

[neilbah]

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[rscsr]

i thought to be a beam wing then doesnt it need a leading edge where as this seems to merge into the floor/diffuser.. its hard to make out in the pictures because it hasnt attracted as many photos as say the mp29.
http://i.imgur.com/4tdHDiK.jpg
not to scale at all.

I thought that there are no holes allowed in the floor, after the DDD got banned but I haven't checked the rules.

[neilbah]

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[Sevach]

Diffuser and you can see the beam wing here.



Diffuser with flow-vis



Nose and FW detail

[Forza]

Jerez - Pre-season Test 1 - DAY 4









https://twitter.com/ScarbsF1/status/429230635836657665 MES LED Display Module PCU-6D Technical specification

[Sevach]

Are they running last years FW for comparison?

Steering wheel is very different for last year.

[eyalynf1]

rear wing is now fixed with a low beam wing ( in yellow), the drive shaft is naked fairing without

http://www.newsf1.it/wp-content/uploads ... -fondo.jpg

Actually it is new, as I was having trouble seeing the leading edge profile of the low wing. Also, the soft focus, or "vignetting" as it is called by design professionals is used to draw attention to the non-soft focus part of the image.

He kept the giant logo off the image, can you all stop picking on him now? It's unseemly.

[tomazy]

Are they running last years FW for comparison?

It seems so don't know what such a comperison would be good for tho.

[Blackout]

Nope, that's a 2014 FW and they tested in already in 2013 during the young drivers day with Suzie Stoddart.

[muelte]

Don't know exactly what you talk about, but I just see some floor reflections on the sidepod...

[Blizz]

Don't know exactly what you talk about, but I just see some floor reflections on the sidepod...

Yeah, deleted the post. It's an optical illusion and a good one i dear say. Got me and a few others going for it Regs wouldn't allow it.

Had this pic posted: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/u ... 014-12.jpg

It's one of those things, where someone sees one thing and someone else sees the other.

[Sevach]

Nope, that's a 2014 FW and they tested in already in 2013 during the young drivers day with Suzie Stoddart.

If you look at Forza's first pic, that's a full 1800mm FW.

It's similar (probably the same) to one of the models they raced last season.

[dren]

That looks like a reflection before the undercut.

[amc]

Indeed.
2013 Force India (1800mm):


2014 Williams (1800mm):


2014 Ferrari (1650mm):


The Williams is using the one from Austin 2013, presumably to get correlation data and to validate their models of the rear-end aero:
If you can prove that your correlation works for two (quite different) cases of front wing, it is less likely that the accuracy is the result of fudge factors and approximations (and chance) and more likely that the model is accurate for all cases and therefore hopefully for future developments.

[Sevach]

Both images from today.

14 spec



13 spec



Hi-res versions

14
http://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/gall ... an/323.jpg

13
http://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/gall ... an/160.jpg