Williams FW34 Launch

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January 25 – Caterham CT01
February 1 – McLaren MP4-27
February 3 – Ferrari (TBA)
February 3 – Force India VJM05
February 5 – Lotus E20
February 6 – Red Bull RB8
February 6 – Sauber C31
February 6 – Toro Rosso STR7
February 7 – Williams FW34
February 21 – Mercedes W03
February 21 – HRT F112
March 1 – Marussia MR01

Less than 24 hours now until the launch of the Williams FW34, which will be the first car from the team in fifteen years to be powered by a Renault engine. Williams will surely be hoping this will yield better results, having endured their worst season to date in 2011. Will better performances from the team? Seeing as Williams have, like many, ran with a high nose the past couple of seasons, I'm expecting to see the rather controversial stepped-nose on the car; which has been on every car unveiled so far apart from the McLaren. What are your opinions on this? Do you think Williams will take a different approach? And do you expect the relatively inexperienced drive line-up to be able to make the most out of what they are given? Discuss.
 
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I think Williams were going down the right track when they gave their design team an overhaul (which they should have done years ago), and got rid of the whole "we're pursuing an aggressive design philosophy" philosophy, which was beginning to feel more and more like a party line (and when they did get the aggressive design right - in 2011 - the car sucked).

But I think that whatever progress they made was lost when they took two pay drivers. One, like Maldonado, would be tolerable - but Williams need someone like Kamui Koabayshi or Jaime Alguersuari, someone who can bring some excitement to the team. What they don't need is Bruno Senna.
 
Must you spoil every semi-related thread with your biased rubbish? We get it, you don't like Bruno Senna. Point made.
 
It's pertinent to the discussion at hand: I think that whatever progress the team makes in their car design will be offset by Senna's presence. Senna might make up two tenth of a second to the rest of the field - but I think a better driver could more fully realise the FW34's potential and get half a second on everyone else.
 
prisonermonkeys
It's pertinent to the discussion at hand: I think that whatever progress the team makes in their car design will be offset by Senna's presence. Senna might make up two tenth of a second to the rest of the field - but I think a better driver could more fully realise the FW34's potential and get half a second on everyone else.
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Coming from someone else it might be, but from you it seems to be just more rubbish prejudice.
 
peter_vod69
Coming from someone else it might be, but from you it seems to be just more rubbish prejudice.
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As much of a Senna fan I am, I think I get what he is saying. Bruno Senna is fast, but if his inconsistency continues, then Williams are in trouble. He's also undoubtedly fast, but he doesn't have the experience and may lack development skills a driver like Barichello had, who could mould the FW34 into a fast machine and put the team on the right development track.
 
peter_vod69
Coming from someone else it might be, but from you it seems to be just more rubbish prejudice.
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Seems you don't like a certain person on this forum :lol: accusations of "biased rubbish" can go both ways
 
Peter.
As much of a Senna fan I am, I think I get what he is saying. Bruno Senna is fast, but if his inconsistency continues, then Williams are in trouble. He's also undoubtedly fast, but he doesn't have the experience and may lack development skills a driver like Barichello had, who could mould the FW34 into a fast machine and put the team on the right development track.
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If the Williams is decent, Senna will be decent with it, and probably get the odd good result. Hoping for more than that is delusional, and a "past his prime" Barrichello wouldn't have changed the situation much. Sure he may have had fewer accidents, but I bet he wouldn't be as quick either, and I'd rather have a quick driver than a consistently past-it one. Besides, Senna already has a reputation for good feedback and being a personable, approachable driver.

haitch40
Seems you don't like a certain person on this forum :lol: accusations of "biased rubbish" can go both ways
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So what? I don't agree with his opinion, sure, but his opinion isn't what I find annoying.
 
Okay, can we just drop all driver discussion in these threads and get to what they're about? Namely complaining about how bad the cars all look this year?
 
MazdaPrice
Which is disgusting. Most of them so far, anyway.

Any leaked info on the new FW?
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It will look like a beached walrus with carbon fiber whiskers, with an airbrushed portrait of Juan Pablo Montoya on the rear diffuser. Just for luck, mind you...
 
niky
It will look like a beached walrus with carbon fiber whiskers, with an airbrushed portrait of Juan Pablo Montoya on the rear diffuser. Just for luck, mind you...
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:lol: The cars are so ugly that I'm seriously considering listening to the races on the radio rather then on TV
 
I hear that the post crash test actually made the cars look better than the uncrashed versions we see before us.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
I hear that the post crash test actually made the cars look better than the uncrashed versions we see before us.
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:lol:

Some say the Stig finds them attractive, and that he considers 3 bowls of sugar a balenced, healthy breakfest.
 
I think these new F1 cars would look great on facebook, apart from the McLaren anyway.

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prisonermonkeys
Any leaked info on the new FW?
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I do remember seeing a spy-shot of the car being built in it's race bay in the teams headquarters in Grove on these forums. Which thread it was however I can't remember. Although I can say that as with the Lotus & Red Bull, the roll hoop structure and sidepod area didn't appear dramatically different. However that was all that was shown on the spy-shot.
 
Presuming that's the final livery, that looks incredible. Right up there with the Sauber and McLaren in terms of looks.
 
Somehow, that car looks quite nice.
Not too ugly but i i hope it can catch up the midfield team. 👍

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I'm glad that F1 is on Sky this year, so I can't even watch it accidentally.

The grid's going to look like a barrel of smashed crabs.
 
niky
It will look like a beached walrus with carbon fiber whiskers, with an airbrushed portrait of Juan Pablo Montoya on the rear diffuser. Just for luck, mind you...
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My stars... I'm clairvoyant! The walrus tusks... the CF moustache...

Now someone get me a shot of the rear diffuser so I can faint from the shock of my awesomeness...
 
That front wing looks like it barely hanging on there.:eek:

Another ambitious design. Hopefully they'll do a lot better than last year.
 
ZEROX
Somehow, that car looks quite nice.
Not too ugly but i i hope it can catch up the midfield team. 👍

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I agree, that and the C31 have got to be the best looking cars on the grid this year. Aside from the MP4-27 of course.
 
It has a classic look on it and I quite like it... No more Cosworth, now there's using Renault. Hopefully they have a good enough package to be a midfielder. Obviously they need to start making some progress...

EDIT: What peter_vod69 said, I think that might not be the real livery.

EDIT2: As astrosdude91 said, the front wing looks barely attached to the nose. As barely as Force India's this one is more extreme! :lol:
 
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I'd be surprised if they race with that livery, usually they have a predominantly-blue livery and then change it for the racing season.
 

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