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[Wingman]

[Rad-oh-yeah?]

Ovo je lanjski Meklarenov nos 1/1

[/13/Ален Шмит/]

 

U editoru slika sam sklonio sve osim bolida radi bolje preglednosti.

Lep je a jos ako vrati Vilijams na pobednicke vode,milina

[alpiner]

Pat Symonds on the Williams FW37

Williams has become the first team to release images of its 2015 F1 car, namely the FW37.
“The notion for the FW37 was to look closely at the FW36 and its performances,’” said the team’s chief technical officer Pat Symonds. “We then went about recognising what had worked well and identifying and resolving the areas that we felt needed to be improved. Although the aerodynamics of the car were impressive there is always room for improvement particularly as we handle the new 2015 nose regulations.

“The first conceptual stage of the FW37 came before the FW36 had turned a wheel. The main element to this is understanding the rule changes and how they will affect the design of the car, from here we can start see if our ideas will fit within the regulations.

“The change in regulations offered us a slight headache. The new front bulkhead and nose geometry had much more of an impact than we had initially anticipated and the effect on the aero was profound. The team have worked hard on pulling back the deficit these regulations have made for us.”

Symonds says work on FW37 was not compromised by a development push with last year’s car.

“The desire to beat Ferrari to third place in the Constructors’ in 2014 meant we pushed our development through to late autumn, but the size of the team is now at a point where it was able to sustain this development whilst still working on the FW37.

“We felt we came up against design barriers in the FW36 and so took the opportunity to remove those barriers for the benefit of the performance. The FW36 carried a reasonable amount of ballast, so we were able to make alterations to the design for added performance without the fear of adding excessive mass.”

Summing up the season to come he added: “The more rule stability there is, the closer the field gets. I hope as a team we are more capable of maintaining the forward momentum to catch Mercedes, than the teams behind us are of catching us. It’s not just about stable regulations but also about the team and every individual that works here moving forward and improving.”

http://adamcooperf1....williams-fw37/?

[Hertzog]

Evo malo za poredjenje

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[DASUBO]

Eto već par godina me fascinira taj "minijaturni" menjač.

Nisam baš siguran da će i nos i prednje krilo osvanuti ovakvi u Herezu.

[Doorn]

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[Wingman]

 

Tech insight and video - Williams FW37 launch By Craig Scarborough

Wednesday, January 21st 2015, 18:12 GMT

 

 

 

Williams's release of computer renderings of its 2015 Formula 1 car, the FW37, provided a first chance to see a nose designed to the new regulations.

The nose, like many of those from 2014, stretches the interpretation of the rules to create the least blockage to the airflow.

A small thumb-like tip is formed to wrap the nose into the smallest package allowed under the regulations. The resulting shape is much shorter and more square-edged than the FW36's.

Although the main wedge-shaped nose merges into a U-shape with the front wing pylons, similar to the 2014 Mercedes, its structure and aerodynamics differ from last year's title-winner.

The nose's thumb tip meets the new rules by creating the first minimum cross section (9000mm2 at 50mm behind the nose tip) and the wide secondary leading edge forms the second regulatory cross section (20,000mm2 at 150mm behind the nose tip). This lifts the nose as clear of the front wing as possible to free up airflow under the front of the car.

Making such a short nose meet the more stringent crash tests will have been a challenge. Not every team will have had the resources to conform to the rules with a nose at its minimum length.

These new nose rules for 2015 not only affect the nose shape, but also the slope of chassis from the front bulkhead upwards to the towards the cockpit.

Pat Symonds alluded to this being a problem and it is clear the front suspension is mounted as high as the structure allows, with the top wishbone being nearly level with the top of the monocoque.

The lower wishbone is a conventional 'A' arm, and not the conjoined version that Mercedes ran last year, which is expected to be a much-copied design in 2015.

Further back, similarities to the FW36 are obvious, but expect these wings and other add-on aero details to change before testing and again before the first grand prix.

Around the rollhoop a new cooling inlet has been created, which is likely to feed a cooler for the ERS, while the sidepod openings are far smaller, being both narrower and shallower.

The remaining sidepod shape retains the deeply undercut design of the 2014 car and tightly wraps around the back of the engine, in a trademark Williams style.

The decrease in sidepod cooling is also reflected in the apparent loss of the permanent cooling outlets near the rollhoop, themselves unique to Williams last year.

Little is known about under-skin changes so far, with the car running a 2015-specification Mercedes engine paired with Williams's own gearbox.

The FW37 seems to be a logical, if not aggressive, approach to a 2015 design - probably the most pragmatic option given Williams's pace in late '14.

 

http://www.autosport...t.php/id/117419

[Wingman]

[lemiwili]

Nadam se da cemo ove sezone ostvariti i neku pobedu. Ne svidja mi se ova koncepcija nosa narocito jer je Meklaren nastradao prosle godine, verovatno ne samo zbog nosa:)

[Downforce]

I ja mislim da je ovo korak nazad kada je nos u pitanju. Ne znam sta im je trebalo da furaju taj koncept.

[4_Webber]

[4_Webber]

[lemiwili]

Ko pionirska ćuna:)

 

Moji su pa mogu da se salim:)))

[Rad-oh-yeah?]

Sir Frank Williams is out of hospital and back up to speed.

 

Late last year, when the Grove team's 72-year-old boss and co-founder stopped coming to races, it emerged he had been hospitalised with pressure sores.

 

The Briton, whose daughter Claire is Williams' deputy team principal, has been tetraplegic and confined to a wheelchair since a road car crash in 1986.

 

He was in hospital for several weeks, but Britain's Telegraph newspaper on Wednesday revealed that Williams is now back at work and planning to attend 15 grands prix in 2015.

 

"I'm seven days a week here," Sir Frank confirmed. "I just love what I do."

 

He does not hide, however, that while he never originally envisaged the top job for his 38-year-old daughter, Claire Williams is now in pole position to one day take over from him.

 

Williams says Claire, who started work at Grove as a junior press officer in 2001, is "very industrious" and "excels" in her current role.

 

"I see her running the business," Sir Frank Williams said.