The making of the Williams FW14

Documentary on the making of the Williams FW14 that was driven by Alain Prost and Damon Hill.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• f1
• williamsf1
• renault

[TheHoustonRocket]

What is the music at the start

[Abzstar111]

no idea sorry mate

[Marillionado]

Will Williams F1 team return to be victorious in the near future? How I long for these victorious days

[Abzstar111]

who knows maybe if they use the mercedes engine

[Sembee83]

FW14 (1991) and FW14B (1992) were driven by Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese.

Damon Hill and Alain Prost car was the FW15 of 1993.

[TaKeItLiKaMaN]

@Abzstar111 Maybe, but so far their drivers arent looking strong. I think its time that Barichello retires.

[alvindarkness]

@TheHoustonRocket

Hi Houston, I just grabbed the album, its track 13 titled "libre parcours". Theres no mistaking it.

[TheHoustonRocket]

@alvindarkness Thank you very much i appreciate it a lot but it wasn't that song.

Thanks anyway. :)

[alvindarkness]

@TheHoustonRocket

Just used shazam, and it says the music is Libre Parcours - Rene Aubry

[McLarenMercedes]

@trsc27

Cool, didn't know that. I suppose that's the reason Honda never built the engine for the McLaren F1 roadcar? When Gordon Murray was planning it he asked Honda to build the V12 to his specs, but they told him the couldn't, so he asked BMW instead, which he had experience with from his Brabham days.

So if Honda were concentrating on their own F1 car, wasting resources to build a roadcar engine for a car which wasn't even all Honda was unthinkable for them. Any other reason?

[trsc27]

@McLarenMercedes

In 1993 they built the RC100 which was used in a crash test to comply with the F1 crash testing regulations, then built the RC101 which was also used in a crash test and finally the RC101B in 1994 which no one knows what happened to, they canned it after they decided to supply engines for indycar instead

[McLarenMercedes]

@trsc27

Interesting, I didn't know that. I've read somewhere that the immense power of the Honda V12 at the end of 1992 made the McLaren appear competitive on circuits with long straights. Ironically enough the 1993 MP4/8 could have won the title if it had a better engine. So had Honda developed a new V10 for 1993...

Honda made a car of their own in 2000 too, but since Harvey Postlethwaite died, they scratched that plan and simply powered BAR. They were only ever really competitive in 2004.

[trsc27]

@McLarenMercedes

Im pretty sure Honda pulled out because of a disagreement in values with Mclaren, not because they thought they were incapable of winning, after all tehy made their own car in secret for 1993 but never raced it

[McLarenMercedes]

@trsc27

True. McLaren learned that in 2005.

So did Lotus in 1967, 1977, 1985 (although Senna may have made it look faster than it actually was) Ferrari in 1974.

Renault in 1982 (very fast, but far from reliable)

A whole heap of other cars that had the pace but not the reliability.

Jackie Stewart once said:"To win a race you first need to finish it." Alain Prost used to great extent in the turbo era, whereas Senna was more about raw speed at any moment. Wish I had seen that era.