That gestation period comes full circle once more with a new set of regulations, key personnel on board along with investment in infrastructure likely to pay dividends. It will be interesting to see how the dynamic changes with Ross Brawn stepping aside and Paddy Lowe taking on the technical aspects of Team Principle, whilst Toto Wolff looks after the commercial aspects, all the time under the scrutiny of none executive chairman and F1 legend Niki Lauda.





The teams timing and confidence shown by Stuttgart in order to facilitate the changes may prove crucial, with perhaps the biggest and most pivotal change coming toward the middle of 2012. The decision to invest heavily in the team not only inspired Lewis Hamilton to join the team but paved the way for new tooling and modifications to their wind tunnel to take it and production to 60% rather than 50%.





2013 was just the precipice in terms of the results that can be achieved by these changes. With the Coanda exhaust fully implemented in the WO4 and providing a better platform than the job done to place it on the WO3 mid season it provided their fans with some solace. The team also made big strides forwards with their Front Wing design providing much needed new impetus on a design that had been being used as an evolutionary platform since the 09 campaign. Other key areas of the car saw decent development and indicates the team are heading in the right direction for 2014.











Front Wing





The W05's Front Wing is a refined version of it's predecessor taking into account the loss in overall width (150mm or 75mm either side) the Main Cascade has been treated to an additional Vertical Strake to aid in turning the airflow around the upper outer quadrant of the tyre's shoulder. In the outer portion of the now split Cascade we see the team have once again installed an IR camera to assess the thermal properties of the front tyre. Added to the



Having already released several teaser images ahead of the actual launch some of the key design features had been seen before the unveil.The W05's Front Wing is a refined version of it's predecessor taking into account the loss in overall width (150mm or 75mm either side) the Main Cascade has been treated to an additional Vertical Strake to aid in turning the airflow around the upper outer quadrant of the tyre's shoulder. In the outer portion of the now split Cascade we see the team have once again installed an IR camera to assess the thermal properties of the front tyre. Added to thelarger Cascade we find a smaller one very much (aesthetically) like the one used on the McLaren. The Endplate features a slotted horizontal vane similar to curved version Lotus ran at one race last season. This vane encourages a high pressure gradient against it's lower side to force airflow out of the slot, this undoubtedly helps the region turn airflow outbound.