I Spy with my little eye...
- Published on Jan 30th, 2010 by Adam Milleneuve...something beginning with W.
It's the new Williams F1 car of course - the team appear to have launched their new 2010 car via some clever viral video on YouTube. Have a watch:
[youtube width="560" height="344"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbtzx8ZGJg4
Clever stuff and true to Williams' personality of being very English and therefore not into the glitzy posh launch events. Whether this is the actual car or not is yet to be known, it's severely lacking sponsorship if it is.
Comments and Discussion
They probably don't have all the sponsorship deals finalised, though it's not out of the ordinary for test cars to not be emblazoned with stickers. There's no tv coverage for testing, so it's not included in the package for sponsors.
I watched the "spy" video yesterday... verrrrry fake. And there's no one who's THAT useless at keeping a camera steady while filming a car.
The Cosworth sounds very different to the other F1 engines, it has a sort of rasp to it, which i like! And looks like the car's got a slightly less-pronounced Pinnochio nose than the F10, but couldn't tell all that well because of the ploy for the cameraperson to get the shakes every time they looked at the car.
Full marks for Williams launching the car on the cheap though!
this is def this years car, having seen the photo of it on the autosport website. pretty sexy i reckon. and yes dave i picked up on the engine note of the cosworth, sounds a lot more V8 ish than other current F1 engines, still sounded quite deep and throaty even at speed along the straight. hopefully it goes as well as it sounds.
I'm really hoping williams pull a fast one with that car and slip in the flywheel KERS. maybe why they have pulled off a sly shakedown at silverstone prior to the launch and first test. they have made no press release about it, where as Ferrari have been fairly vocal about their desire to shake down their care pre test next week.
The Cosworth does sound good - hope it's up to the same sort of speed as the other engines otherwise Williams are going to slip backwards this year. Car looks good on the Autosport site. Fingers crossed on this one...