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The Williams FW15C is a Formula One car designed by Adrian Newey and built by Williams Grand Prix Engineering for use in the 1993 Formula One World Championship.. As the car that won both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships in the last season before the FIA banned electronic driver aids, the FW15C (along with its racing predecessor FW14B) was, in 2005, considered to be one of the most ...
Ahead of the 1994 season, the FIA banned electronic driver aids such as active suspension and traction control. [11] [12] The speed of the change (the FIA was so eager to implement the ban that it initially suggested imposing the ban in the middle of the 1993 season [12]) was criticised by several drivers, who believed that it would lead to unsafe design flaws in the 1994 cars.
An active suspension is a type of automotive suspension that uses an onboard control system to control the vertical movement of the vehicle's wheels and axles relative to the chassis or vehicle frame, rather than the conventional passive suspension that relies solely on large springs to maintain static support and dampen the vertical wheel movements caused by the road surface.
Having had active suspension for two years, when we then lost it we had more trouble re-adapting to passive suspension than other people who hadn't been on it for very long". [citation needed] "We've had a few problems", said Newey after the Pacific Grand Prix. "Mainly, it is a grip problem in the slow corners.
The 92 was used by Lotus in the first part of the 1983 Formula One season. The car was driven regularly by Nigel Mansell and also in one race (the 1983 Brazilian Grand Prix ) by Elio de Angelis . Engine problems on the warmup lap for de Angelis' Renault turbo -engined Lotus 93T forced him into the spare 92, which eventually led to his ...
However, after the problems encountered in the first half of 1988 with the FW12, Williams decided more work was needed on getting the active suspension to work better with the naturally aspirated engines of the time and converted the new car to passive suspension. Walker reported that this was the reason the FW13 had so late in making its race ...
Williams had debuted their own version of the computer controlled "active suspension" on the FW11 at the 1987 Italian Grand Prix, with Nelson Piquet taking victory in the system's debut (it was called "Williams Reactive Ride" by the team as Lotus had the copyright on the "Active Suspension" name in F1). Williams made revisions to the system in ...
In order to combat the spiraling costs of running a Formula One team, and to counteract criticism that over-reliance on technology was reducing the drivers to a secondary role, sweeping rule changes were introduced for 1994, most notably a ban on all electronic "driver aids", [11] [12] such as: Active suspension; Anti-lock brakes; Traction control