Williams Fw31
#1
Posted 19 January 2009 - 10:34 PM
Another debut brought to our attention by Meds in the F1 daily thread.
#2
Posted 19 January 2009 - 11:12 PM
http://www.autosport...rt.php/id/72884
#3
Posted 20 January 2009 - 02:38 AM
As per the normal with Williams over the last couple of seasons they won't launch the actually livery until just before the first race in Melbourne.
Ummm can a mod please relocate this thread to the 2009 Launches, thanks
Jez what were you thinking

"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
#4
Posted 20 January 2009 - 02:47 AM
#5
Posted 20 January 2009 - 02:49 AM
Jez, on Jan 20 2009, 12:47 PM, said:
Good point.

"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
#6
Posted 20 January 2009 - 02:55 AM
#7
Posted 20 January 2009 - 03:13 AM
I really like the sidepods on the FW31, square looking but nice.

"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
#8
Posted 20 January 2009 - 06:26 AM
I think, without wishing too hard, that Williams may have a chance at some consistent podiums this year, seeing as this is a "from scratch" design...I think the problems over the last few years have been that they got stuck in a bit of a design alley way that they could no longer get out of, but this season, it's a clean sheet of paper, and that all bodes well for someone like Patrick Head...and with the movable front wings, I think this is something Williams will be able to make work better than other corporate-committee design teams.
Looking forward to the Red Bulls (x2) to launch now. Yet somehow nunplussed about seeing the Force India (yawn)....
#9
Posted 20 January 2009 - 06:27 AM

"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
#11
Posted 20 January 2009 - 07:42 AM
HandyNZL, on Jan 20 2009, 04:32 PM, said:
True, I can't for the life of me figure out why then Williams would have bought Automotive Hybrid Power Limited in order to develop the Flywheel KERS system then not run it as soon as it was ready??? I understand that there is a massive amount of development to be had in the aero but you would assume that Automotive Hybrid Power Limited would work seperately on the KERS systems.
Thoughts anyone???

"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
#12
Posted 20 January 2009 - 08:40 AM
Anyway, the Willy. The sidepods look clever, they've done away with the fins, but the raised 'shoulder' will still funnel air where they want it to go.
KERS, well the FIA have shafted everyone by letting the teams spend a fortune for this year, then scrap it for next year when a standerd one will be introduced - fcuking madness. I just hope that the standerd design is awarded to Williams, which doesn't (at the moment) use batteries, something the FIA are keen to avoid.
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#13
Posted 20 January 2009 - 10:22 AM
aussief1, on Jan 20 2009, 07:42 AM, said:
Thoughts anyone???
medilloni, on Jan 20 2009, 08:40 AM, said:
Anyway, the Willy. The sidepods look clever, they've done away with the fins, but the raised 'shoulder' will still funnel air where they want it to go.
KERS, well the FIA have shafted everyone by letting the teams spend a fortune for this year, then scrap it for next year when a standerd one will be introduced - fcuking madness. I just hope that the standerd design is awarded to Williams, which doesn't (at the moment) use batteries, something the FIA are keen to avoid.
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#14
Posted 20 January 2009 - 11:38 AM
medilloni, on Jan 20 2009, 06:40 PM, said:
I already tried to have a go at Jez for that **** up but he came back with a worthy response in that "the cars are so ugly they don't deserve their own section". Gold
Murray Walker, on Jan 20 2009, 08:22 PM, said:
But why the hell bother being proactive and buying them in order to get the jump on the rest of the field if you cannot fund the development in order to maximise the investment. I assume that they would continue working on flywheel development contracts that they already had in place.
Edited by aussief1, 20 January 2009 - 11:40 AM.

"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
#15
Posted 20 January 2009 - 05:35 PM
aussief1, on Jan 20 2009, 07:42 AM, said:
Thoughts anyone???
Good question. I am guessing that they simply can't make it work very well for them, or they have decided to stop development on it because they don't want to waste any more money on it, when it may be 'standard' next year (another stroke of genius by the FIA there).
#16
Posted 20 January 2009 - 08:03 PM
"There is nothing lower than the human race except the French."
- Mark Twain
#17
Posted 20 January 2009 - 10:15 PM
#18
Posted 21 January 2009 - 03:18 AM
Rainmaster, on Jan 21 2009, 03:35 AM, said:
Nah, that can't be it. Lets face it, if Williams can't make the flywheel KERS work with the assistance of owning a company who speciality is flywheel KERS, then what exactly is going on down at Grove these days.

"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
#19
Posted 21 January 2009 - 06:44 AM
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#20
Posted 21 January 2009 - 08:48 AM
Meanioni, on Jan 21 2009, 06:44 AM, said:
I read somewhere, that RBS are signed up for 'another two years', whether that means this and next year, or '10 and '11 I dunno - so trying to get out of the deal would probably cost them and arm and leg. Or I could have made it up 'cos this off-season is exceptionally boring.
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#21
Posted 21 January 2009 - 03:47 PM
aussief1, on Jan 21 2009, 03:18 AM, said:
I can't be sure, although the company they work with are specialists on KERS, they aren't specialists in racing KERS, which I think must be a very difficult and different challenge. I guess they have to find a way to put it into the car without screwing up the weight distribution, which affects the balance which is linked to the handling and everything else.
Saying that, I do agree, it isn't a very good explanation.
#22
Posted 25 February 2009 - 03:17 AM
28 days remain.

"Giancarlo, you are still two seconds a lap slower than Fernando, this cannot be possible you have the same fuel load, I know you have some understeer but you cannot be two seconds slower, COME ON"!!!! - Alan Permane, Fisichella�s race engineer, 2006 Australian Grand Prix
"We're lucky we don't build aeroplanes" - Mark Webber on Red Bulls reliability issues at the Australian Grand Prix 2008.
Nathan is: .............. ??
#23
Posted 25 February 2009 - 06:40 AM
Rainmaster, on Jan 21 2009, 05:47 PM, said:
Saying that, I do agree, it isn't a very good explanation.
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#24
Posted 25 February 2009 - 09:49 AM
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#25
Posted 25 February 2009 - 06:32 PM
"There is nothing lower than the human race except the French."
- Mark Twain
#26
Posted 26 February 2009 - 11:53 PM
#28
Posted 27 February 2009 - 01:44 PM
mikathegreat2, on Feb 27 2009, 01:16 PM, said:
About time too, they do more harm than smoking
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#29
Posted 17 May 2009 - 04:18 PM
Started off very well and goes backwards as other teams develop quicker than them.
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