DAMON HILL'S WILLIAMS FW18 IS HERE!! Silverstone Museum Vodcast ep 1
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2024
- In our first episode, Rob brings us up close to the 1996 F1 Championship winning Williams FW18 driven by Damon Hill. This car was a fantastic piece of machinery, with modern carbon fibre detailing, unique aero elements, and even has Damon's initials printed into his seat!
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4:04 that particular "air deflector" is actually an interesting legality item, it's primary purpose is not aerodynamic, instead it's exploiting a loophole in the regulations concerning the dimensions of the cockpit sides. Adrian talked about it in an interview - some teams (especially Ferrari) were apparently quite upset with this interpretation since they hadn't spotted this loophole and had designed full width head protection which was detrimental to the aero.
An early example of the "spirit of the rules" not working :)
FW18-02 was Villeneuve's car for the first three races and then a test car after that so never actually Damon's. I believe this has come from it's normal resting place at Beaulieu in the motor museum there so I guess they've just put the name and number on it for Damon rather than Jacques.
It's still just about my favourite F1 car though. Damon was my childhood hero and seeing him win the title was a huge, wonderful memory of mine growing up.
4:45 that actually happened in 1995, not in 1996 so it would've been the FW17, not the FW18 :)
I’m so gutted! I was only there last week…. I may have to return!
01 for the hans device initial testing after feb 01 earnhardts fatal crash in the Daytona 500.
Interesting detail that the car still has a clutch pedal. I wonder when did the clutch move to the steering wheel in F1 cars?
Believe Villeneuve used a hand clutch in the sister car that year, so the transition started mid-90s.
I think slowly from around 94 onwards.