Williams FW48

[Martin Keene]

Surely the cable managment can be managed better?

I think is common to have a huge amount of badly managed wiring during testing, I am talking for all teams. They are not part of the wiring harness of the car, but more so they can quickly install and connect aero racks, Temp. Cameras, sensors and so on.

They can run presure taps on floor etc during testing, needing extraneous wiring loom to facilitate this. Likey not incorporated in race build specifications.

All of that loose green wiring will be for thermocouples for initial testing to make sure everything is as expected.

[porridge]

@n_mode_log

[vorticism]

Second element flap bulges forward at its local center, extends rather far over the first element, with a more typical overlaps at the ends. A little unusual. Used to seeing a more continuous overlap along the full span.

[AR3-GP]

Wheels. All of the teams have strange shapes and hollows on the wheel barrel.

[Stu]

Wheels. All of the teams have strange shapes and hollows on the wheel barrel.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HEL09EZaIAU ... =4096x4096

Reduced mass centre with some useful side effects.

[tomazy]

Upper wishbone curves up at he connection point to the wheel.

[roadie]

The front wing mechanism looks very strong. I wonder if other teams have made theirs out of carbon?

[tomazy]

New lighter radiators for Miami? The tube going out of the bottom one looks much neater, and the radiators look slimmer to me. There is still a big control box at the bottom, but also it looks smaller than before.
New:

Old:

[PlatinumZealot]

Worksmanship looks three steps below the leading teams.

[tomazy]

New small monkeyseat behind the exhaust and bigger central section on the difuser, now beam wing attaches to this section and not on the crash structure.

[bananapeel23]

New small monkeyseat behind the exhaust and bigger central section on the difuser, now beam wing attaches to this section and not on the crash structure.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HHLUULkXoAI ... name=large

This has got to be those rear wing stabilizer volumes that can be placed practically everywhere on the centreline or close to the rear wing endplate.

In other words those elements that Mercedes is using to get the 4 element rear wing.

I was speculating in the Ferrari thread earlier that these volumes may end up being used in this location. However, I didn’t really consider the fact that other teams could use it for a cheap knockoff of the Ferrari exhaust deflector.

[JoeE]

Are we getting close to exhaust blown rear wings again

[Luscion]

Upgrades at Miami

[tomazy]

Comparisson of old (top) vs new (bottom) sidepods:




Also some really nice comaprison photos from Miami by @carpentiers_f1









And first pic from Canada @LucianoYoma

[clownfish]

Williams upgrades for Canada