Dark Horse: Williams-Toyota FW31 unveiled in Portugal

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    pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag"Motorsports/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/williams-fw31/1302954/"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/fw31-web.jpg" alt="" //aemstrongbr /small/small/strongsmall/small/emdiv align="center"smallemstrongClick on the image above for a high-res gallery of the new Williams FW31/strong/embr //small/divsmall/small br /It's been a long time since Williams stood atop the Formula 1 world, but back when they were, nobody could take them down. They've won seven drivers' championships, with such pilots as Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Jacques Villeneuve and Ayrton Senna - and taken nine constructors' championships just to wash 'em down. But that was a long time ago, and since then the team has fallen far from the top. Could this be the year they come back?br /br /With F1's technical regulations turned all topsy-turvy for 2009, Williams was the first to start preparing. They're also the only team to go with a mechanical Kinetic Energy Recovery System, opting for a flywheel to store recovered braking energy instead of the battery-based systems developed by the other teams. The flywheel is installed in the new FW31, powered by a Toyota engine and unveiled at the new Algarve circuit in Portugal, where several other teams - including Renault - came to test out their new gear. Test driver Nico Hulkenberg was behind the wheel, soon to be joined by lead drivers Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima, who remain with the team for 2009. Check out the new Williams FW31 - wearing interim dark blue livery for the off-season - in the gallery below.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/williams-fw31/"Williams FW31/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/williams-fw31/1302964/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/_o9t1644_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/williams-fw31/1302954/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/_y2z1983_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/williams-fw31/1302965/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/dg0_8768_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/williams-fw31/1302959/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/dg0_8773_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/williams-fw31/1302961/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/dg0_8776_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: Williams F1]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/19/dark-horse-williams-toyota-fw31-unveiled-in-portugal/"Dark Horse: Williams-Toyota FW31 unveiled in Portugal/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/19/dark-horse-williams-toyota-fw31-unveiled-in-portugal/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1433630/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/19/dark-horse-williams-toyota-fw31-unveiled-in-portugal/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2sMQETuQ3R0saQ8wI1-TufgK8YM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2sMQETuQ3R0saQ8wI1-TufgK8YM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=9B1KcFMX"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=9B1KcFMX" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=XOnJrvhw"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=XOnJrvhw" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/j5sPMlg4ef8" height="1" width="1"/

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