The car so bad is shocked Williams

In today's video covering more problematic Formula 1 cars, I dive a little into the 2020 Williams FW43. Ever since Williams first joined the F1 grid back in 1977 for the Spanish GP, they scored points in every season. 2020 remains the only scoreless season by the Williams team. Let's talk about that.
F1. Williams 2020. Williams FW42 2019. George Russell Williams. Nicholas Latifi Williams Crashes.

[@sebz7248]

I think another interesting car would be the Redbull RB11. I know Redbull is still considered a fairly new team but they had a good run in 09 as runner ups and then of course winning 4 titles in a row to completely falling flat in 2015. Not a single win that season.

[@nbain66]

Red Bull had a run of developing a car that wasn't great at the beginning of the season and improving a lot throughout from 2015-2020. It was a competitive car at the end, but still just out of reach of a win. Singapore was very close however.

[@davey2487]

@@nbain66 But that was also in part because Mercedes used to switch over to next year's car relatively early compared to Red Bull. This is also what Red Bull is doing this season and why teams are now slowly catching up.

[@Tom-bt8eg]

shit french engine mostly to blame

[@ChuyR.]

Redbull is the best contemporary team at the moment, if Mercedes is able to come back and anhiliate the competition i can consider them the best modern team, but so far they havent been able to do it, the dominance they had seems to have been a fluke.

[@111baf]

@@nbain66 During 2014 - 2018 they suffered horribly from Renault engine. They could only win at slower circuits. Since they switched to Honda and stopped being customer team they've risen to the top again.

[@nebulalights4614]

Force India (2014-15), Lotus (2015), Manor (2016) and McLaren (2014) also had Mercedes engines, but they were slower than Williams in those respective years.

[@ugencz8364]

Williams had a good base in 2014, but they didn't develop it well throughout the years.

[@eziitis8]

​@@ugencz8364I would say they did very well up until the aero reg change of 2017. They didn't get it right and suffered since.

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

That's one glaring error in this video.. It wasn't so much the other engines catching up that did Williams in 2017. It were the new arrow regulations for that year.

[@kHz33]

A bit surprised that you didn't review the 2019 one, it's pace deficit on average was much larger to the front of the grid, they missed the first two days of pre-season testing in Barcelona, and it was a horrible car to drive, the grip was really inconsistent, while Russell regularly made it into Q2 in 2020 and the car's handling overall was a lot more stable, it just lacked downforce. They only scored a point in 2019 by pure luck at the German GP, because so many cars retired.

[@emilekaram6094]

Yes, in 2020 it wasn't even the worst car, it was Haas already like 2021!! Look at Tuscan GP last 12 or 15 laps, Russell made a 7-8 secs on Grosjean at the chequered flag

[@dylanburston7453]

the 2021 car, which was essentially a B-spec (as were all 2021 cars except the AM) got a podium

[@WuseligerPinguin_SF]

​@@dylanburston7453Yeah... in the "race" in Belgium... what an achievement to be on the podium in that "race"

[@RBenjo21]

I felt that in 2019 there was a genuine chance of them failing to qualify in Australia under the 107% rule…

[@natelecarde962]

Being a Williams fan has been painful since 2018…

[@jorgeluiz07]

2004*

[@davidaugustofc2574]

Since 1997, and for some in 1994

[@lekonai]

this year is looking really promising for williams though

[@emilekaram6094]

2018 was still slightly better than 2011 and 2013, Idk how it was so good in 2012 compared to these 2, really the greatest season in F1 history

[@yudhabagaskara98]

2014 and 2015 are not that painful

[@ailabyuhphage08]

This could be the worst Williams car statistics-wise, but the REAL Williams fans, F1 fans, and even the Williams crew know that the 2019 FW42 still far the worst performing Williams car in their rich history.

[@crystalracing4794]

I thought this was going to be the 2019 car, which was useless. Kubica's point was a fluke because Kimi and Gio were handed 30 sec pens at Hockenheimring. And the 2021 car was a B spec of 2020 car, so it wasn’t truly a flop.

[@idkanymoreuwu]

Williams is my favorite team in F1, but the fact that they lost so many opportunities to go in another way, BMW in the 2000s, the Strolls in the last decade, we just have to face that they will never be able to compete if they don't merge with some financial backing...

[@Milehupen]

What a fantastic series. Theres no better underdog team to root for than Williams. And the whole Rokit sponsorship fiasko, which denied us the beautiful "toothpaste" car, didnt really help them to get out of the mud. Lets hope the current car also is a strong foundation to build upon.

[@erikalvarez4516]

Please don't undersell how important Juan Pablo Montoya was for Williams. He fought hard and gave Schumacher a hard time even in the dominant Ferrari years. He was the last title fighter and steady podium visitor.

[@blacksackjack9302]

What do you mean by "steady podium visitor"?

[@Runmeerkat]

​@@blacksackjack9302it means Montoya would finish in top 3 regularly.

[@the-blue-barron2791]

Montoya had the fastest car on the grid in the BMW Williams and did nothing

[@erikalvarez4516]

@@the-blue-barron2791 when was the Williams the most dominant in that era? It had a great BMW motor but as a complete package was not dominant

[@elysianpositron661]

​@@the-blue-barron2791 BMW was arguably the best engine, but definitely not the fastest car. Not by a long shot

[@fordgalaxiefanclub7733]

you dont know what your talking about. Williams were way more prepared in 2020 than 2019. The delta between 2019 and 2020 was one of the biggest improvements out of any other teams in testing, whilst also fixing their schedule issues and turned up to the track first.

[@javierplays9516]

On god

[@javierplays9516]

My guy probs see statisitics oh 2020 williams 0 pts, 2019 williams 1 pt, the 2020 car is worse then!!. Instead of actually seeing the pace of the williams by watching f1 in 2019/2020 👀👀, did he even watch the sport back then

[@sebz7248]

@@javierplays9516 Did you not watch the video?? He clearly stated he primarily used the 2020 williams example because it scored no points but the 2019 Williams was a worse car

[@alexpeak16]

@@sebz7248 Way worse - on average it was 2% off the back of the midfield for pace. Everything about that car was dreadful. Don't look at stats, look at outright pace.

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

@@sebz7248you are wrong they were worst in 2020

[@skippychompy916]

Your videos are some of my favorites on yt rn, keep up the good work

[@ifeelcoke4347]

I had a stroke reading the title sorry

[@dumirte]

Really liking these videos keep up the good work!

[@prontezc7793]

Great series, I hope you will gain many more views.

[@erent.1453]

great explantion bro thx for the contents like this

[@headcrab980]

I never realized Bendan Hartley had a KZbin channel! 🤣 Cool video

[@chanhkhiemtran9010]

Lol,We got a long lost Brendon Hartley’s cousin rocking his Vettel cut (in some of his videos) What more can you expect 😂😂

[@Mclean9.5]

Just discovered this channel, Love your series so far man and best of luck 👍🤞

[@fkez0510]

Mate everyone knows the 2019 car was SIGNIFICANTLY worse. The equivalent to Haas in 2021, maybe even worse still

[@111baf]

Other thing they suffer from is that Frank Williams insisted they remain independent team and without enough money they've fallen behind in technology. They still use aluminium for some components where others started to use composites long time ago.

[@DekGT5mad]

One name is at the heart of 2019 - Paddy Lowe! What experienced championship winning CTO decides to build a seven arm front suspension that is 100% illegal from the outset on paper? I think one that has been paid to kill the team for sale-essentially what happened!

[@yammt3148]

Just gives me flashbacks to that infamous photo of the underside of their car a while ago... Time flies, eh?

[@senorpotato8657]

Haas VF-21 is a car that should be talked about i think, it was probably the worst car made throughout the 2017-2021 set of regulations

[@emilekaram6094]

Surely not, Williams 2019 was still miles worse!!

[@gamefan56]

Th e Vf-21 was just the 2020 car though with the new engine and mandatory regulation changes, Haas never actually bothered with developing it for 2021 given they were focusing on 2022.

[@emilekaram6094]

@@gamefan56 Still the 2019 Williams is far way worse than 2021 Haas

[@omar_easef1]

Dont worry bro I got them winning at F1 Manager😂

[@MisFakapek]

They literally withdrawn the car from the race to.. conserve parts... oh dear Williams... so Claire.. so wow...

[@Lena_765_]

I am so glad for Williams now that they are on their way up the midfield with what seem to be 2 fairly competent drivers again.

[@turrican4d599]

*one competent driver

[@WuseligerPinguin_SF]

​@@turrican4d599Sargeant's not that bad, they should keep him

[@gamefan56]

@@WuseligerPinguin_SF He has been on the level of Latifi so far. Williams should look for someone better than him.

[@taneda97]

I would like a review on the 2007 Renault. What exactly happened to them? Highly appreciated if you could do a video on it. Cheers!

[@ThatOnionispog]

they lost Alonso, he was fast, and told them how to fix their car, also a few new regulations that messed with their car

[@georgemesser3262]

@@ThatOnionispog giancarlo was well past it as well and heikki needed half a season to settle I remember them being alright in the second half of the season

[@zNoah]

​@@ThatOnionispog Losing a driver doesn't make a team automatically fall from winning a championship to getting a single podium in less than a year.

[@crystalracing4794]

Switching to Bridgestone due to Michelin's departure messed their car up.

[@jvomkrieg]

Glad you brought up that Claire was Sandbagged by Frank the whole time. He wouldn't even let her be Team Principal. Frank needed to back the heck off and trust his daughter a little bit, maybe she would have done better, but she could hardly have done any worse

[@Bluefire397]

Man it's been 3 months please fix the title typo

[@Drrolfski]

Every single minuscule part that goes into an F1 car is digitally administered and managed by an F1 team. Except for the Williams team, that is. They simply have no such system in place and James Vowles found that out the hard way when he started the 2023 season. That's how bad Williams is.

[@joribremer5260]

You can really do some series on this, the car that broke (this team ) (where everything starts to go down hill for a team ) like Lotus 100T , Brabham BT55 , Ligier JS29 etc )

[@tobstud]

Forgot how nice that Rokit livery was 😍

[@spitfire451]

They also decided to expand the historical racing car manufacturing workshops.... Which sadly diverted extremely intelligent personnel from the then F1 team...... Loved Williams for over 40 years. But I'm optimistic they will come good again.....

[@squeakers27]

The title doesn't make any sense, it says 'the car so bad is shocked Williams' when it should say 'the car so bad, it shocked Williams'

[@emilisgren2882]

when the money started too get spread more evenly in the 2000 a racing team without a big sponser owning a team like red bull or being owned by a manufacturer like renault, bmw or honda. a strong result didn't pay aswell and they went down a down ward spiral as there wasn't backing from a company with infinate money too spend on racing

[@quantumvortex]

good video

[@galactic_nerd-sk4747]

The 2019 car was way worse than 2020, the 2020 car was actually solid

[@timkasansky2528]

paddy lowe was the final nail in the coffin. The team was a decent midfielder until 2017. the change in approach beginning 2018 was all on him. The car was bad and the drivers were worse. 2019 was just the consequence, unreliable sponsors, low quality standards.... but the new guys have been doing a good job taking the team out of the hole it got itself in.

[@crystalracing4794]

Truth be told the FW41 in 2018 was Williams' start of their downfall. They tried making a car with more downforce, but ended producing far too much drag. Although having Stroll & Sirotkin was one awful line-up

[@mawile3037]

we just gonna leave that typo in the title tho =(

[@NicotineRosberg]

Everybody & their mom now wants to start an F1 channel lol. Bruh I can't it's too much now

[@captain_kirkyt2481]

The title has a typo, just letting you know😊

[@WynnofThule]

0:54 If I've ever seen a yee-yee ass haircut in my life...

[@lekonai]

goated vid

[@turrican4d599]

6:37 Dude, it's still here!

[@drs_gamer41]

That criticism of the 2014 isn't fair, although they had the Mercedes engine, so did McLaren and Force India, so they beat some legitimate competitors

[@troxyd7197]

what has a beginning always has a end

[@Jorge.Painkiller]

IMO the FW43 wasn't really that bad. Heck I think it was better than the Haas VF20 on pace. It's just that Grosjean and Magnussen were able to put it together and get lucky points, just like in 2014 when Marussia finished ahead of Sauber despite being 1 second slower on pace

[@mrdraw2087]

2018 and 2019 were Williams' worst years in F1 I think. After a gradual decline from 2014 to 2017 (somewhat engine-related, but mainly because they just couldn't develop the car as fast as the other teams) they tried something radical in 2018 and it failed horribly. Instead of a car only lacking downforce they now had a car that lacked downforce and was draggy like a parachute as well. In 2019 it got even worse. The car wasn't even ready in time and when it finally hit the track it was SLOW. Was it all Paddy Lowe's fault? Who knows. Williams got more competitive after he left. They didn't score points in 2020, but they could have, while in 2019 they got incredibly lucky to score that single point.

[@Gangsta_Playz]

Do a vid on the decline of McLaren since 2013

[@GregorioStyreco]

The Car so bad, it shocked williams.

[@FurryestX]

Ayo Why is there a Repsol Honda Bike part in the wall? Did marquez crashed on your house?

[@MrBahjatt]

Williams became the HTC of F1.

[@acenyojer44]

Williams fw41 pls

[@ManOfPillowDoom]

"So bad is shocked Williams" maybe actually try harder next time😂

[@IKEA_SSB]

typo in the title

[@thecodex0994]

With those race stats are you including Williams before they went bankrupt and sold the team to Walter wolf

[@grasshoper4904]

Maybe make a video about the 1980 ferrari it is the worst ever car of ferrari and it was so bad jody schekter retired that season because of it

[@alexpeak16]

Or the 1992 Ferrari which was so awful it was 3.4% off the pace from the front. They also had horrific engine unreliability, they went through 220 engines that year.

[@carlreeves8976]

at least williams got albon in the team and its a great choice to put him in so nice pick 👍

[@Monumentos71]

Is shocked Williams?........................

[@fdoc09]

Alex Albon would love to differ

[@olegpetrovic]

FW-42 from '19 was SHIT

[@turbo_marc]

Please learn some grammar. I don't know what happened with that video title.

[@imwithname843]

F1 is and was fucked bout in 2008.

[@tun04]

Dts youtuber 😂 :D

[@davicee.]

sadly no knowledge

[@idi8822]

FW42 was worse ngl

[@the-blue-barron2791]

the 2019 car was way worse

[@KayoMichiels]

To put it simply... Williams forgot how a car should drive after all their investments and programming to create a electronically controlled perfect race car.... after the 1993 and with the banning of driver aids.... they were never the same again...

[@WuseligerPinguin_SF]

They won championships after that, what are you on about

[@vishalkasle7994]

I dont think you understand F1 when you say that Williams was 3rd in 2014 only because of Mercedes engine. You have good editing skills but sorry to say very little understanding of F1.

[@frsamvimes9271]

He's American, enough said

[@ihavewaited90daystochangem51]

Both of you dissing him while being completely clueless. Yes the williams of 2014-17 was good only thanks to it's engine, a straight line was the only place where they excelled thanks the their low drag low downforce crap aero

[@icantdecideahandle]

you took it out of context, he did mention the low down force, low drag nature of it just a few seconds later

[@jc12szn]

@@frsamvimes9271 that doesn't mean shit

[@frsamvimes9271]

@@jc12szn lol

[@michaeltaylor4271]

Its so hard to keep up with what your saying at times, its like your words run together because you talk fast, its like your trying to sing a song and not narrirating a story

[@im__sam]

Just get better at listening? He's perfectly understandable.

[@michaeltaylor4271]

Yea we didn't watch the same video, he talks so fast his words are running together. But by all means you can watch shitty content creators that can't even do the most important thing as a content creator which is actually being understandable when you speak. Lol

[@michaeltaylor4271]

​@im__sam there is a reason he has 9k subs and not 100k and it's because there's 5 or 6 other content creators that you can actually understand that's making the exact same content...

[@im__sam]

I think you just have trouble understanding English bro@@michaeltaylor4271

[@gavcom4060]

@@michaeltaylor4271or just get better at listening to him? Sorry our brains aren’t slow

[@tun04]

Go watch DTS f1 is not for you :D wtf is that video.

[@tarisznya]

I hate HATE Frank Williams, may he burn in hell for what he did to Senna. Cheapskate. He seriously is the embodiment of those cripples who's life is bad so they have to make everyone else's life miserabel. I hope his team and his questionable legacy is gone and forgotten in the next 5 years.

[@zeppl1n476]

you look like brandan hartley

[@maxiderdepp]

good content