Tech Corner: Williams reversion

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Williams have had a tough season so far as they’ve watched both Mercedes and Ferrari accelerate away from them in the development race but perhaps the more frustrating things is Red Bull have stepped up their game and now find themselves much closer to Ferrari than Williams.

Williams are now in a dog fight with Force India for fourth position in the championship with the VJM09 reacting fairly well to a B-Spec update package at Barcelona bringing them into play.  Meanwhile, Williams upgrades have fallen flat, with the team left scratching their head over why their pace keeps dropping away.

In Hungary, much like the post British GP test, the team decided to back-to-back many of the components that have been added to the FW38 since the start of the season with the Melbourne spec ones and chose on the whole the opening days parts.

A fourth iteration of the front wing was due to be introduced in Austria but has yet to be raced and found itself relegated to the spares pile in Hungary too, but perhaps more shocking was their total reversion to the original specification wing coupled with the first …

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