Gesture politics With the pit lane increasingly packed with a new generation of engineering talent, look out for one of the Williams old guard attempting an unconvincing novelty "youth" handshake with someone young enough to be their grandchild.Ī full and proper coalition? "We're like a big family," said Pastor Maldonado, the new Venezuelan driver, when he joined the team. True, they did enjoy one pole position last season – secured by Nico Hülkenberg in Brazil – but there are probably more effective ways of encouraging a repeat than the one they chose: the German was sacked eight days later. We predict The only way that this season's going to see them getting back to the front of the grid is if the grid's looked at back to front. "We know that won't be easy, but we hope this car will take us closer to the leaders than we were in 2010." They predict "Our ambition is to get back to the front of the grid," Williams himself says. Williams became Formula One's first publicly owned team when they floated on the Frankfurt stock exchange just before the start of the season, though only 27.39% of the company was actually up for grabs. In 1978 he and Patrick Head set up together in a disused carpet warehouse in Didcot and the rest is history.įuelled by German investors. The Williams 2011 F1 car weighs 640 kg, which is 20 kg more than last year, and has a weight distribution of 46% on the front axle and the rest on the rear one.In the rear-view mirror Frank Williams built the team from nothing, famously having to commandeer a Slough telephone box as his makeshift office in the early 70s because he couldn't afford his own line. This will increase speeds by up to 15 km/h. The Williams 2011 F1 car features the new moveable rear wing which can increase the front slot gap until it reaches 50 mm. The KERS system is not located inside the survival cell of the Williams 2011 F1 car, below the fuel tank.
The energy stored by KERS can generate up to 60 kW which can be used by the driver for up to 6.6 seconds per lap. The Williams 2011 F1 car also comes with KERS, which recovers the energy generated by the brakes and exhaust system, which is then stored in a battery. The Williams 2011 F1 car will no longer feature the double diffuser from last year, since it was banned by the FIA. The Williams 2011 F1 car comes with the smallest seven-speed gearbox ever produced by Williams F1 that works in conjunction with the new pull-rod rear suspension. The Williams 2011 F1 car had its debut this morning in Valencia, before going to fight in the 2011 FIA Formula One World Championship. Williams Cosworth Formula 1 team has unveiled today the Williams 2011 F1 car, the FW33, which, as Rubens Barrichello calls it, it will be aggressive.
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