Williams FW34 Renault

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Post Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:39 am

Owen.C93 wrote:
roadie wrote:Cooling on the FW34 is asymmetrical, hence the different outlets.

Pretty sure they ran different ones over the weekend for different cooling purposes, they never ran them asymmetrical however.


As shown above they did run asymmetrical
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Post Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:23 pm

Crucial_Xtreme wrote:Williams testing McLaren style exhaust in Silverstone

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via @tgruener


Williams have these coanda exhausts since the mugello test and yet they never race them...

They had a new FW in FP3, but decided to race the old one.
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Post Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:45 pm

The new (un-raced) FW

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Post Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:11 pm

Sevach wrote:The new (un-raced) FW

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Whats new about it? The last part of the upper main plane?
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Post Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:05 pm

Huntresa wrote:
Sevach wrote:The new (un-raced) FW



Whats new about it? The last part of the upper main plane?


The main cascade winglet is split into two
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The flaps are a different shape with an extra slot at the inboard end
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The "r" shaped vane has a more rounded profile
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Post Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:19 pm

scarbs wrote:
Huntresa wrote:
Sevach wrote:The new (un-raced) FW



Whats new about it? The last part of the upper main plane?


The main cascade winglet is split into two
and
The flaps are a different shape with an extra slot at the inboard end
and
The "r" shaped vane has a more rounded profile


And TV cameras repositioned between FW pillars
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Post Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:12 pm

Any photos from the young drivers test at Silverstone? Bottas did some 50 laps today.
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Post Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:29 pm

Some. Nothing new that I can see though.
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Post Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:27 pm

Bottas used the new FW from Silverstone FP3 today and they ran the assymetrical exhaust.

Let's see if the Coanda gets an outing.
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Post Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:11 am

Huntresa wrote:Any photos from the young drivers test at Silverstone? Bottas did some 50 laps today.


That was just the morning session. He ended up doing 120.
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Post Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:33 am

Quiet a bit of rake, has it always been like this on the fw34?
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Post Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:46 pm

This looks really interesting, sensing equipment with what looks like a camera looking at black and white boxes on the rear wing endplate, perhaps mesuring how much it moves around on the Z axis as well as X Y?
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I thought someone might be interested in a splitter shot as well.
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Post Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:22 pm

Every race ends when the chequered flag is out!
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Post Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:08 pm

Owen.C93 wrote:This looks really interesting, sensing equipment with what looks like a camera looking at black and white boxes on the rear wing endplate, perhaps mesuring how much it moves around on the Z axis as well as X Y?
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I thought someone might be interested in a splitter shot as well.
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Post Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:34 am

This stood out for me from autosport's testing article:

"Williams worked on aerodynamics and data gathering during Friday afternoon, running with a number of small holes in the nose cone linked to tubing which flowed out over the front wing."

Anyone got any pictures of this?
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