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With the launch of the Williams
Racing FW44 just days away the event will mark the first time that the team
has delivered a new Formula One car designed and produced under the
ownership of Dorilton Capital. For the new owners this launch is just the
culmination of many months of hard work behind the scenes by the team as
they worked towards upgrading the core infrastructure of the team.
In a recent interview for The Race Williams Racing's Dave Robson spoke of
the work that occurred as the team worked to reinvigorate the teams
infrastructure which would assist the process of designing and developing
the new FW44.
Robson said: “The first thing which was done was mostly [upgrading] the
windtunnel."
“Because there was no development of the tool for many years.
“That started straight after Dorilton bought Williams. They invested in
computing power because of CFD capacity and now we are more working on
different test rigs.
“We are also to improve the atmosphere in the team. The team lost some very
good engineers, so you employ new ones but they have to learn to work
together.
“We have a lot of young engineers that we need to teach and bring them to
the level.
“It’s a massive project, which makes it difficult. We can’t put 100% of our
workforce on developing next year’s car, for example, because we have also
to do a lot of R&D projects for the longer term.
“And we have the cost cap we have to work within. So it’s a long journey.
“Our investor, they really want us to build this proper machine, a winning
machine, and they know that two to three years is to build the team and
another two to three to develop this team.
“So that’s our long-term plan.” |
