That could be the case if LS and SS complained about a car understeering, because that used to be the prefered balance on RK cars. One of the reasons Petrov complained he can't benefit from Kubica's setup.bit1817 wrote: ↑26 Mar 2018, 02:15What If Villeneuve s sabotage guess ist right in its core?
All of the real Driver beasts like Hamilton, Schumacher, Alonso and others have developed the Cars to a specific behaviour that is sometimes almost undrivable Form their teammates.
What If Kubica has given a Special direction in development and Setup Work that is perfect for his driving Style and Talent, and brings the Car further and makes it faster though it has a bad basis at all, but is a huge Problem for less talented and also more unexperienced drivers?
Ah, that’s probably better, at least then Williams understands the problem and it’s a matter of bringing updates to unlock the lap time.Stalker1 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2018, 17:52You probably already have read that but PlatinumZealot wrote a couple of pages ago: "Pitch sensitivity of the aerodynamics. On braking when yhe ar pitches forward all the detailed vortices and flow structures go out of whack. In other words they have a lot of work to do on the front wing and the bargeboards!"Raleigh wrote: ↑24 Mar 2018, 17:39From the sounds of it the car is inconsistently losing front or rear downforce on turn-in, I imagine it’s difficult to drive when you don’t know how much grip you are going to have going into the corner.
Most of the aero is Mercedes or Ferrari inspired but the combination is new, I’m cautiously optimistic that this is just a case of figuring out the new approach and getting parts to play nice together rather than a fundamentally slow car.
Lowe admitted after the test in Barcelona, that they got lost with finding the right setup. It seems to me that the issues are not set-up related but rather design related, including suspension design. Maybe the problems with keeping consistent airflow over the cars surfaces are also related to the problem that the suspension does not hold constant ride height during braking and acceleration periods.
True, but at the end of the day the car is slow and unpredictable. I get the feeling they have gone too far without understanding it. If we were still in the days where teams could test to their hearts content then the car could be more easily and more quickly understood. But to have to learn on the race weekends, it's a very public way to make mistakes and learn from it.
Ah, you're not a true fan! This season will involve challenges and improvement opportunities , not depression.
I totally agree. I am also a Williams fan, and i am extremely sad to see every year the team going back in the bottom...sprint car76 wrote: ↑27 Mar 2018, 21:24This is not a driver input problem, this is a design problem. You can not have three different drivers, 6 test days and one race and still have a handling problem. To top it off they had an overheating problem. Does this sound like a team with top notch personal? I'm really surprised that lowe has not got a handle on this problem. You would think that having worked for two of the top teams in F1 that he would understand what is needed to sort these types of problems out. Maybe mercedes not fighting hard to keep him should tell us something. For williams fans like me this might be a depressing year.
There was no setup problem last year until mid-season when the first big update arrived and changed a lot of the car, it took a few races and some more updates but Williams bounced back, brought some more new parts, figured out the setup, finished the season scoring decent points on a regular basis.sprint car76 wrote: ↑27 Mar 2018, 17:54They struggled last year with setup on a car design that they had been developing for a few years and now they have a car that is very different from last years car and they have the same problem. To me, this seems to point out they are lacking engineering personal to figure out whether it's aero or suspension. They had testing and now one race and it seems they aren't any closer to understanding the car. They have a veteran driver (kubica) that hasn't helped. They need to find a solution quick before they become irrelevant.