Tech analysis: The signs of progress in Williams FW43's design

Williams can't afford to have another season like 2019, and though the FW43 is an evolution of the troubled FW42, its initial design is already noticeably more elaborate.

Jake Boxall-Legge Feb 17, 2020, 11:22 AM

Upd: Feb 17, 2020, 2:41 PM

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After lodging its worst-ever Formula 1 points haul in 2019, Williams enters the new decade with renewed focus and vigour. Additions to the technical team unite with a tweaked driver line-up for 2020, and the new Aquafresh livery adorning the FW43 certainly gives the team a fresher outlook.

This year should hopefully have none of the negative spirals surrounding the team that embroiled its pre-season last year. The car is on time, there have been no acrimonious departures of senior technical staff from the team, and the latter-season infighting between Williams and Robert Kubica is now off the menu.

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Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.