Williams-BMW F1 Car at the BMW Museum

[gooseneck12]

cool man dont take of youtube

[Jasey0684]

i think the car next to the williams is a brabham or something

[Suprahampton]

@Jasey0684 Brabham BT52 by the looks of it

[ericambrosecoon]

I sat in this car in Munich. I waited until no one was looking then jumped the glass wall and got my picture taken in it.

[macilo]

Good on yer!

[legia97]

Just beautiful!One of the most beautiful F1 cars in history!

[urbanexcess]

adowable

[350Z33]

The Williams BMW there is a 2003 FW25. You can tell mainly by the shape of the nose and the sidepods. 2004 had the FW26 "walrus" tusk nose. Later in the season, the FW26b was introduced. It had a regular nose like the FW25, but the sidepods were much more curved. 2005, the last BMW Williams car, was the FW27. Again, it was like the FW26b in that the sidepods were very curved and the nose was arched more. The FW25 you took video of has more of a flat sidepod.

[macilo]

Many thanks for the info 350Z33. I have updated the summary as appropriate

[350Z33]

No problem. I was actually looking at pictures of the museum on flickr (search "BMW F1 museum") online and noticed several other BMW F1 cars were rotated out next to the Brabham. A BMW Sauber was there at one point. What I found really odd was a 2000 BMW Williams FW22 in a 2005/2006 livery (HP, RBS, and Budweiser sponsors) instead of the Compaq Allianz 1080 sponsors.

[blizzarddragon2438]

is this the william f1 fw26?

[eoinwwalsh]

hope that answerwd your question LOL :-)

[macilo]

Yeo, that covered most things! Many thanks.

[eoinwwalsh]

also,Another noteworthy detail is that this engine, unlike all others in Formula 1, was developed beginning with the stock block of BMW's four-cylinder production engine, under the direction of BMW engine wizard Paul Rosche. The success of this engine with Brabham was such that other Formula 1 teams including ATS, Arrows and Benneton also opted for BMW power in their cars.

In July 1985, the BMW/Brabham BT54 carried Nelson Piquet to victory in the French Grand Prix.

[eoinwwalsh]

the car is a BMW powered Brabham BT54.

The BMW/Brabham BT54 is the successor to the Formula 1 World Championship-winning BMW/Brabham BT52, which carried Nelson Piquet to that title in 1983, the first Formula 1 Championship ever won by a turbocharged engine. This was all the more remarkable because the first race entered with this engine was in January 1982 and 630 days later, it had captured the world championship.