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Why Williams revealed new F1 livery on show car

Why Williams revealed new F1 livery on show car

The British team says its first challenger built to the heavily revised F1 aerodynamic regulations is currently being driven in a shakedown event at Silverstone.

That running, which was apparently delayed by an hour until 2pm local time by the team discovering an electronics issue that needed to be rectified, followed Williams releasing a series of rendered images of the FW44’s livery – predominantly dark blue with aqua and red flashes replacing the white, blue, yellow and black-striped look on its 2021 car.

Red Bull took the same approach when revealing the colours of its RB18 machine last Wednesday, but the team that took Max Verstappen to last year’s world title did not commit to releasing images of its real design, as Williams has done in a call that team principal Capito held with the media shortly before the FW44 was set to take to the track for its initial running.

When asked why Williams had not decided to showcase the FW44’s livery on even rendered shots of the design…

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