Why Williams revealed new F1 livery on show car

The British team says its first challenger built to the heavily revised F1 aerodynamic regulations is currently being driven in a shakedown event at Silverstone.

That running, which was apparently delayed by an hour until 2pm local time by the team discovering an electronics issue that needed to be rectified, followed Williams releasing a series of rendered images of the FW44’s livery – predominantly dark blue with aqua and red flashes replacing the white, blue, yellow and…