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The second-chance evolution of a 2019 failure

The only way is up for Williams after a nightmarish 2019. Free from the pre-season delays that plagued the team last year, the FW43 has built on many of the problems that hampered its predecessor to create a more finely-optimised 2020 challenger

Jake Boxall-Legge Feb 17, 2020, 2:34 PM

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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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.