Williams FW41 Mercedes

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The T-wing is slotted
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There's a tiny wing above the tail light
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Gearbox looks to be still all-metal.
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Looks like they're not running complete inner covers yet either - easier for adjustments in early testing I suppose.

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ScrewCaptain27 wrote:
01 Mar 2018, 19:52
Gearbox looks to be still all-metal.
Running last year's box for the first test so they get reliable running? I find it strange though they wouldn't want to put some mileage on a brand new gearbox concept before they got to performance running next week.
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Aluminium gearbox will stay for the full season. No carbon case for 2018.

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scarbs wrote:
02 Mar 2018, 00:06
Aluminium gearbox will stay for the full season. No carbon case for 2018.
With the minimum weight being so high, is it even a big deal about the carbon gearboxes? I wouldn't think it would be as huge as when the cars were 605kg minimum...

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The FW pylons have one McLaren style slot in them.

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pipm1 wrote:
02 Mar 2018, 22:22
The FW pylons have one McLaren style slot in them.
They have that from the middle of last year.

Francesc wrote:
02 Mar 2018, 20:49

New Batwing
Neh, it is just a reflection on the Mercedes stile cape.

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Morteza wrote:
01 Mar 2018, 18:39
There's a tiny wing above the tail light
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXN36vSX4AA126t.jpg:large

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Also a bolt-on vortex generater on the central section of the diffuser, has others done that before?

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Holm86 wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 03:05
Morteza wrote:
01 Mar 2018, 18:39
There's a tiny wing above the tail light
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXN36vSX4AA126t.jpg:large

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Also a bolt-on vortex generater on the central section of the diffuser, has others done that before?
RB in 2014 and copied by many teams since :mrgreen:

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Morteza wrote:
01 Mar 2018, 18:39
There's a tiny wing above the tail light
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXN36vSX4AA126t.jpg:large

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This diffuser is almost a copy of the mercedes. Looks like Paddy took a lot of IP to williams.
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