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Williams engineers mulled stripping paint from entire FW44!
Williams' Dave Robson says the team's engineers considered stripping all the paint off the FW44 in a bid to save crucial weight, a plan that was unsurprisingly opposed by the British outfit's marketing department. As teams rolled out their new-generation cars at the start of the season, weight became a top issue, with the majority of the new designs weighing in over the sport's legal 795kg threshold, the highest limit ever set in the modern history of F1. A three-kilo increase was authorised after pre-season testing, but teams still struggled to meet the higher limit, with some competitors allegedly being as much as 10 kg over the minimum weight. To marginally further slim down their...
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