Williams admit F1 floor “clearly lacking detail” despite ‘deceptive’ images
Images of the floor of the Williams FW45 emerged following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant’s☂ crash during final practice💎 at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, prompting comparisons to their competitors.
Interest surrounding F1’s latest generation of ground-effect floors has piqued in r𓃲ecent weeks after the undersides of th🍸e Red Bull and Mercedes were exposed in Monaco.
Vowles point✨ed out tha🎉t the images of the Williams FW45 are “a little bit deceptive”.
"There were photoꦛs taken of our floor this weekend aftꦬer Logan went off in FP3 and obviously those have been compared to photography taken of our competitors just a few weeks ago," he said in a video released by Williams.
"I think one thing to point out is that it is a little bit deceptiꦛve.
— Dan - EngineMode11 (@EngineMode11)Despite his⛎ ackno🦂wledgement about Williams’ floor, Vowles insisted that simply copying rival designs is not a viable solution.
“We are clearly lacജking detail relative to our competitors but you wouldn't have needed the underside of the floor to know that,"✱ he explained.
"You can see that from lap times. That's fundamentally a feature of balance characte💮ristics and the car's performance, and downforce as well at the same time, and a lot of that is being generated by the floor.
“Understanding what your competitors do by getting an image of it and simply copying it won’t help you. It may give you an instantaneous leg up and understanding of where you🅠 should be moving forward.
“But if you don’t understand the science and the reason behind it and the flow dyn🐎amics, you’ll just have a moment in time rather than an idea of how to consistently become not just 😼as good as them, but better.
“Furthermore, whatever you have seen on a compe♌titor is at least six-to-eight weeks out of date and wᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhere they are now is further forward.
“So the key behind it all is actually understanding why have they develop🐼ed the floor in the way they have, and what can we learn from it and apply it to where we are today to advance our understanding."
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