Williams

In Hungary Williams introduced a new floor to the FW38 as part of a raft of measures aimed at improving performance, but with just one available it was only used on Valtteri Bottas’s car. However, in Germany both Bottas and Massa had the new-spec floor available to them, and both ran it with the latest nose and front wing assembly that was introduced but not used in Budapest.

The new floor features three new L-shaped slots (indicated by the red arrows) compared to the old solution (inset), but has one less slot at the rear of the floor.

The new slots are similar to those introduced by Toro Rosso in 2015, with Mercedes one of the teams to have taken on a similar design.

The idea behind the three slots is to clean up airflow that has been diverted laterally by the rear tyre deforming under load - a phenomena that can inhibit diffuser performance.



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