2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

This forum contains threads to discuss teams themselves. Anything not technical about the cars, including restructuring, performances etc belongs here.
User avatar
organic
984
Joined: 08 Jan 2022, 02:24
Location: Cambridge, UK

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

Qatar and Las Vegas will be critical races to retain p7 in WCC then


User avatar
organic
984
Joined: 08 Jan 2022, 02:24
Location: Cambridge, UK

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

Vowles suggests/hints that its unconventional wheel with screen mounted to cockpit will not be on next year's car

Jump to 8:06

https://www.williamsf1.com/videos/5b7c3 ... autoplay=1

AR3-GP
AR3-GP
335
Joined: 06 Jul 2021, 01:22

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

That had been a williams "quirk" for years.

User avatar
organic
984
Joined: 08 Jan 2022, 02:24
Location: Cambridge, UK

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

AR3-GP wrote:
20 Oct 2023, 17:49
That had been a williams "quirk" for years.
Another characteristic that you touched on recently is their wind sensitivity

https://www.williamsf1.com/videos/6b48b ... autoplay=1

Vowles mentions it in his post-race debrief which is insightful in a number of ways

But says that even a slight rotation in wind direction between Friday and Saturday helped them a lot. Shows their car is still super sensitive to conditions

User avatar
organic
984
Joined: 08 Jan 2022, 02:24
Location: Cambridge, UK

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

Car is not too shabby here. Why?

In FP3 Albon's laptime of 1.17.957 was 2.902 seconds faster than his fastest time last year in qualifying

tomazy
tomazy
205
Joined: 10 Jan 2006, 13:01

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

organic wrote:
28 Oct 2023, 20:40
Car is not too shabby here. Why?

In FP3 Albon's laptime of 1.17.957 was 2.902 seconds faster than his fastest time last year in qualifying
Yes FW45 is a big improvement from last years car, but last year in Q he didn't do any clean laps, he was almost 1s faster in FP3 (1:19.917) than in qualifying (1:20.859).

User avatar
mwillems
26
Joined: 04 Sep 2016, 22:11

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

Give a man a fire, and he will be warm for a night.
Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

User avatar
Moctecus
144
Joined: 28 Oct 2015, 13:08
Location: Germany

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

For this weekend, Williams have finally put Sargeant back on the "new" (Silverstone-spec) front wing. The last time Albon and Sargeant drove the same-spec car was at Zandvoort in August.

User avatar
organic
984
Joined: 08 Jan 2022, 02:24
Location: Cambridge, UK

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

Moctecus wrote:
03 Nov 2023, 18:29
For this weekend, Williams have finally put Sargeant back on the "new" (Silverstone-spec) front wing. The last time Albon and Sargeant drove the same-spec car was at Zandvoort in August.
That's good. Shame about the three-wheeling in his one session to learn the track

WilliamsRacingFR
WilliamsRacingFR
0
Joined: 15 Nov 2023, 11:57

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

organic wrote:
20 Oct 2023, 05:11
Vowles suggests/hints that its unconventional wheel with screen mounted to cockpit will not be on next year's car

Jump to 8:06

https://www.williamsf1.com/videos/5b7c3 ... autoplay=1
Perhaps a glimpse of what the new williams steering wheel will look like next year.
Image taken from 3D provided by Williams for the special Las Vegas livery.

Image

Arnaud

User avatar
Wouter
106
Joined: 16 Dec 2017, 13:02

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post

The Power of Dreams!

User avatar
organic
984
Joined: 08 Jan 2022, 02:24
Location: Cambridge, UK

Re: 2023 Williams Racing F1 Team

Post