By Andrew Hooper
February 17 2020
The ROKiT Williams team unveiled their 2020 challenger the FW43. The FW43 is an evolution of the FW42, with much of the development work carried out throughout 2019 feeding in to the design of this year’s car. Speaking ahead of the 2020 season, Claire Williams, Deputy Team Principal, said: “This year marks a fresh start for the team. We have spent time addressing our areas of weakness and have ensured that we have the right people, structures, procedures and resource in place to deliver competitive race cars. We are all committed to re-building Williams and returning the team to competitiveness."
ROKiT Williams unveils 2020 challenger FW43 |
The FW43 is an evolution of the FW42, with much of the development work carried out throughout 2019 feeding in to the design of this year’s car.
Speaking ahead of the 2020 season, Claire
Williams, Deputy Team Principal, said: “This year marks a fresh start for
the team. We have spent time addressing our areas of weakness and have
ensured that we have the right people, structures, procedures and resource
in place to deliver competitive race cars. We are all committed to
re-building Williams and returning the team to competitiveness. As such, our
2020 campaign is about making progress. The fighting spirit is still very
much alive, and this year, everyone will continue that fight until we get
back to where we want to be.”
“We have paid significant attention to
understanding the problem areas of the FW42 and we have carefully chosen
parts of the car to develop, those that would give us the most performance
for the resources we have. The main concept behind the FW43 is that it is a
continuous development of the FW42, with no fundamental concept changes to
the layout. The most important indicator that we are on the right path will
be the level of correlation we have between the tool kit we use to design
the car and what the track data is telling us. |
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Chief Engineer, Adam Carter, added: “The initiatives that we put in place to drive performance across all disciplines within the engineering department are evident in the design and development of the FW43. It’s been great to see the hard work starting to pay off. “The decision to retain some of the core architecture of the FW42 means there has been less resource invested in developing new concepts, which in turn has rewarded the design team with greater bandwidth to optimise their work, evident in both packaging and component detail. By preserving some key parameters, it has allowed for an uninterrupted development programme within Aerodynamics in order to maximise the efficiency of the resources. As we head towards the pre-season tests and then onto the race season, the most important measure will be the progress relative to our peers, along with our intention of continuing our recent record of reliability.
“Later this week, we will be looking at our
single timed lap pace, our long run pace and the feedback from the drivers
to understand where we are and what we do next. We have teams, both at the
track and back at Grove, that will be delving into all aspects that define
that lap time during the pre-season tests to ensure we are in the best
possible place ahead of the first race in Australia.” |
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