Williams became the final team to begin their 2013 car on Tuesday morning, as the Renault-powered FW35 was reveal in the Barcelona pit lane at the begin of this week's four-day test at the Circuit de Catalunya.
To be raced by 2012 Spanish Grand Prix winner Pastor Maldonado and new colleague Valtteri Bottas, Williams hope the car - which features development in several key areas over its FW34 predecessor - will help them advance on their eighth place in last year's position.
“Given the rule constancy over the winter, I’m pleased with the gains that we’ve been talented to make with this car,” said Williams’ technical director, Mike Coughlan. “It’s a better, more advanced Formula One car than the FW34 and I think everyone complicated in the project can feel proud of the work they’ve done.”
Despite being a development of 2012’s car, more than 80 percent of the FW35 is new. It has a original gearbox, new rear suspension, new radiators, a new floor, new exhausts, new bodywork, a new nose and a important amount of heaviness has been saved as fine.
With many new parts on the car, the team has accepted out a lot of dependability work over the winter. The gearbox alone has already finished 3,200 kilometres on the dyno, a lot of which was behavior in the form of five straight Grand Prix weekends.
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