Haynes Williams FW14B: Owners' Workshop Manual

Product Description The Williams FW14B is the 1992 Formula 1 World Championship-winning car that dominated the season and took Nigel Mansell to his only World Drivers' Championship, winning nine races. Mansell's team-mate, Riccardo Patrese, also won a race, and finished second to Mansell on six occasions, while the car also took Williams to the constructors title. To complete the stunning statistics, Mansell either won or finished second in all the races he finished that season, and he took pole position for all but two of the season's 16 races. The Renault V10-powered FW14B was one of the most technologically advanced F1 cars ever built, featuring semi-automatic transmission, active suspension and traction control, in addition to other innovations. Written with the full cooperation of Williams, and featuring extensive input from the engineers and drivers who developed the car and took it to championship success including interviews with Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese this Manual includes numerous period photographs, in addition to detailed images of an FW14B in the Williams Heritage workshop today. A wealth of previously unpublished archive material, including original technical drawings and team documentation, provides fascinating new insight into the design and development of the FW14B. The absorbing story of an iconic F1 car, designed and raced in an era that saw the dawn of electronic control systems in motorsport, and when the regulations allowed a talented group of engineers free reign to exploit their innovative ideas and technical prowess. Content includes: - The Williams story - brief history of Williams prior to the FW14B, and subsequent history to the present day. - Design and development of the FW14B - how the FW14B evolved from the 1991 FW14, the origins and development of Williams s active suspension, and the preparations for the 1992 season. - The FW14B in action - a race-by race account of the FW14B s performance in the 1992 World Championship. - The anatomy of the FW14B - chassis, aerodynamics, Renault engines, transmission, active suspension, steering, brakes, wheels and tyres, cockpit and electronics. - The drivers - unique insight from Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese, plus details of all other drivers to have driven an FW14B. - The engineers - Williams and Renault engineers insights and recollections. - Williams Heritage - an insight into today's Williams Heritage operation and its mission to curate the cars in the Williams Grand Prix Collection. - Appendices - specifications, race history, chassis histories and 1992 rivals. About the Author Steve Rendle has worked for Haynes Publishing for 20 years, first as a technical author of car manuals and now as an editor, managing the publication of a wide range of car-related books.