@WilliamsRacing unleash the #FW43 for the 2020 #F1 season. @F1

ROKiT Williams Racing have unleashed their Mercedes-powered FW43 for the 2020 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season.

The FW43 was an evolution of last season’s FW42 racer, with much of it’s development work carried out through the 2019 campaign feeding into the design of this year’s contender.

ROKiT Williams Racing Deputy Team Principal Claire Williams explained: “This year marks a fresh start for the team. We have spent time addressing our areas of weakness and have ensured that we have the right people, structures, procedures and resource in place to deliver competitive race cars. We are all committed to re-building Williams and returning the team to competitiveness. As such, our 2020 campaign is about making progress. The fighting spirit is still very much alive, and this year, everyone will continue that fight until we get back to where we want to be.” Credit to Williams for the quote.

ROKiT Williams Racing’s driver line-up features George Russell teaming with Nicholas Latifi and in the development department, F2 racer Jack Aitken who left Renault’s F1 Academy to join the Grove-based outfit and reigning W-Series Champion Jamie Chadwick.

“The initiatives that we put in place to drive performance across all disciplines within the engineering department are evident in the design and development of the FW43,” ROKiT Williams Racing Chief Engineer Adam Carter commented. “It’s been great to see the hard work starting to pay off.”

“The decision to retain some of the core architecture of the FW42 means there has been less resource invested in developing new concepts, which in turn has rewarded the design team with greater bandwidth to optimise their work, evident in both packaging and component detail. By preserving some key parameters, it has allowed for an uninterrupted development programme within Aerodynamics in order to maximise the efficiency of the resources. As we head towards the pre-season tests and then onto the race season, the most important measure will be the progress relative to our peers, along with our intention of continuing our recent record of reliability.”

“Later this week, we will be looking at our single timed lap pace, our long run pace and the feedback from the drivers to understand where we are and what we do next. We have teams, both at the track and back at Grove, that will be delving into all aspects that define that lap time during the pre-season tests to ensure we are in the best possible place ahead of the first race in Australia.” Carter concluded. Credit to Williams Racing for the quote.

The ROKiT Williams Racing FW43 will be put through it’s paces on Wednesday February 19 when Formula 1’s official pre-season test begins at the Circuit De Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain for six days and ends on Friday February 28.

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