I know it’s basically the end of the day but I’ve just found this and I want to wish sir Frank happy 70th birthday again!
For sure, a hearty Happy Birthday to Sir Francis Owen Garbatt Williams CBE!
So far this is the only other picture I can find of this momentous occasion.
ok, I found one other one, but it was really small and crappy quality.
Goddamn. Fantastic rear shot of the new FW34.
OK, maybe my expectations are still skewed by that ridiculous alligator-looking Caterham, or yesterday’s eyesore of a Sauber, but this design is pretty goddamn gorgeous. Look at those lines! Best looking car of 2012 so far, and no one is more surprised (AND DELIGHTED) about that than me, I don’t think.
I will be very interested to see whether that minimalism in the bodywork pays off in terms of speed. For the sake of our boy here (hee, he looks so excited!), I really hope so.
I like the Sauber, it looks like a panda. But yeah, this is gorgeous. :p
Follow-up to the CFD reblog, here’s the great behind-the-scenes of Williams’ more typical front wing development process from the BBC, which starts with evaluating ideas via CFD, then testing on the scale model in the wind tunnel, then the final carbon fibre layup.
(Source: frijole)
BBC Sport gets exclusive behind the scenes access as Williams engineers conceive, design and develop a new front wing.
Williams: The Champions (1993)
A look inside the workings of Williams Grand Prix Engineering as they prepare to defend their championship title in the 1993 Formula One season.
Tune in for awesome early ’90s high tech behind the scenes action, stick around for the great scenes: Alain Prost and Damon Hill at Estoril, Adrian Newey in the wind tunnel, and more.
From the ITV series Extraordinary People, original air date 9 March 1993.
