Williams FW41 Mercedes

[tomazy]

[Mark4211]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWjsbCf91iQ

What are the purpose of these? (yellow highlight)

Never seen them before, in recent years

[tomazy]

Probably the fances so that the air doesn't spill of the side of the nose. But yes, I havn't seen them befor ither.

[PlatinumZealot]

The new Renault has them too.

[Seamus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWjsbCf91iQ

What are the purpose of these? (yellow highlight)

Never seen them before, in recent years

https://i.imgur.com/QMhhTfG.jpg

[tomazy]

Regarding the hole in the mirrors, I found pic of last years car with them too. Kubica ran without mirros in the mirror mounts, so the hole is probably there to fix the mirror in place.

[SimonFW11b]

Kubica looks smooth as ever.

I wonder why Williams spend time and money mounting the info display on the chassis rather than the steering wheel.

[nevill3]

I makes the wheel lighter

[paddyf1]

Regarding the hole in the mirrors, I found pic of last years car with them too. Kubica ran without mirros in the mirror mounts, so the hole is probably there to fix the mirror in place.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPuLBVQW4AAuk61.jpg

Well there we go, would you say the hole is to reduce drag?

[tomazy]

Regarding the hole in the mirrors, I found pic of last years car with them too. Kubica ran without mirros in the mirror mounts, so the hole is probably there to fix the mirror in place.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPuLBVQW4AAuk61.jpg

Well there we go, would you say the hole is to reduce drag?

I think that when the car will run with the mirrors attached, there will be no hole, but we will se tomorrow.

Kubica looks smooth as ever.

I wonder why Williams spend time and money mounting the info display on the chassis rather than the steering wheel.

I would think that it is easier to mount the display on tha chassis than on the stering wheel.

[nevill3]

But you can clearly see the same hole in the picture you posted of the earlier car, and it is definitely a hole, I can see the background through it

[designf1]

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[Mr Brooksy]

On the sky sports website, Paddy Lowe says that they experienced some issues, anyone have any info on what they were.

He did say that they'll have the night to sort them before today's test begins so I'm guessing it can't be too big.

[atheonr]

I'm pretty sure that this nose is different compared to last years. It look's like Mclaren '17 nose

[tomazy]

You can see the inner wall of the rear tire from the front