Williams ex-technical director said last year that the entire team hasn't done proper R&D in years due to financial restrictions. The aero group as an example has to do a lot of R&D in different kinds of vortices, airflow paths.basti313 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2023, 14:43If we compare this air flow with the RB, it is not refined at all. On the RB the flow around the side pod is a very defined vortex, here it just looks like it is all over the place and going over the edge. It might look like a similar approach, but it is not working if copying RB is the intention.
But this is a bit the issue of the whole car. The front wing looks like one from testing last year, there is no refined structure for generating vortices in front of the front tire like nearly everyone else uses it.
Sorry, but except for the front brake I can not see anything on this car that is interesting in regard of performance...rather interesting as a bad example.
They are yet to hire a head of aero, technical director. I think those roles really hold the key for this team to move forward. These roles are ultimately responsible for guiding the aero group and chassis group on what direction they need to pursue.
I also think they need a cto as that is responsible for providing the latest technologies to the team which Williams dearly need.