Wind Tunnel Problems for WilliamsF1

By Andrew Hooper
July 24 2005

 
Further Wind Tunnel Problems
 

WilliamsF1's Patrick Head has indicated that the WilliamsF1 team has had further difficulties with the setup of their new wind tunnel. This came about when the team found that the figures they got from running with a full-size car were different to those using a 60 per cent model.

Patrick HeadHead explained "We've obviously been doing quite a bit of tunnel testing and investigating, and we've slightly changed our approach to set-up. We've learned a bit from running the full-size car in the tunnel against the 60 per cent model, and there are one or two discrepancies which have caused us to set the car slightly differently, so it's looking a bit better."

As for the future Head was confident that the team can improve the performance of the FW27.

Head added: "We'll have to see how the race pans out tomorrow. It obviously depends on how much fuel people have got on board. We've had two very bad grands prix, but Williams is a strong team. I'm sure that we're more than capable of sorting out the problems that we've had in the last two races, and I'm sure that we will get better as the season goes on."
 

 
 
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