Williams FW40 Mercedes

[LookBackTime]

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do you know the time the picture was made?

[edu2703]

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do you know the time the picture was made?

Unfortunately no. I received this image via WhatsApp without any description. For a moment I thought it was the FW38, but since there's no 'Petrobras' name on the sides, it's definitely the FW40.

[PhillipM]

Indeed, except it doesnt have a change in shape

Okay, you're just trolling now, never mind.

[ringo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5wGGhgXMAAPjGF.jpg:large

Williams sticking with air to air intercooling

[PhillipM]

The odd shots of the sidepods suggest they could tighten the midriff significantly from where they are now, I wonder why they're so wide - something sat there (another cooler perhaps) that gets taken off almost straight away?

[Sevach]

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The splitter seems to start as keel... no idea why.

[Sevach]

Shadows let's us see the lines.


FW runs very close to the ground this season, probably thanks to the smaller tea tray.


Is this a smaller barge board?

[wesley123]

Indeed, except it doesnt have a change in shape

Okay, you're just trolling now, never mind.

We have a different opinion and see something different, I'm not sure how that would be trolling.

[PhillipM]

So it's apparent from multiple angles of the car, from both sides, front and rear, and also somehow makes the bodywork connect further up the lower slope of the lateral fin on top. And it's still a shadow?

[wesley123]

Yes, I have a different view on it than you. I don't know why that would be so weird

[PhillipM]

It's about as weird as me saying they don't have a front wing, it's just shadows!

You can see the thickness change on the picture Sevach posted above too, not sure how you explain that one as a shadow when it's view almost straight from the rear

[RZS10]

Here's something that might help wesley understand what we're all seeing:



1 is the view from top

2 is the view from behind (the grey is the part after the thickened area, looks like it's 'chamfered')

3. shows the rough shape of the main fin in grey which is thicker at the front and then thins out (below the thickened area in black)

4 and 5 are just further (ugly) sketches illustrating what is going on there

edit: 3D

[wesley123]

It's about as weird as me saying they don't have a front wing, it's just shadows!

That makes no sense whatsoever.

You can see the thickness change on the picture Sevach posted above too, not sure how you explain that one as a shadow when it's view almost straight from the rear

"I see something, therefore everyone in the world will see the same thing because I solely am representative of the whole human population. Someone seeing something different or interpreting something on an image differently than me is simply impossible."

Dude, it's all great that you see something in an image, but it's exactly that, an image showing something. None of us have seen the car in real life, nor close enough to perfectly describe the shape. So it is very easy for two people to see something different on an image. And remember; Things are often spotted on images, and 90%(Approximately) of the time these things are either a reflection, or a shadow from something else.

-Explanation-

Thanks, that makes it much clearer. I interpreted the previous conversation as the fin getting fatter(as, on the Mercedes chimney the fin does get fatter), instead of thinner.

And to get back to the original point; I don't think that this change in shape is wide enough to properly incorporate the chimney. Plus, it changes shape long before the horizontal plate(which would be there to 'simulate' the chimney) ends, as well as its shape being too far forward, and lacking any shaping to properly guide airflow from under the surface.

[PhillipM]

Nobody said it was a chimney.

And there's a very big difference between a shadow on one picture, and a claiming it's still a shadow from something else across every single picture of the car from multiple angles and days...

[Sevach]