chassis

Team principal Toto Wolff said the need to give Russell a brand new chassis after his crash in Mexico was "a tremendous hit under the cost cap and we probably have to dial down on what we put on the car".

He says he sees next season as a building year towards 2026, when new rules come in on both chassis and engines and which Williams hope will mark the beginning of their real quest to return to their glory days of the 1980s and 1990s.

Most in F1 would acknowledge that being a manufacturer of both chassis and engines gives a team a theoretical competitive advantage, because the two designs can be integrated at source.

And the chassis regulations have been made more restrictive, so it’s harder for teams to find an advantage.

It was a kind of "franken-bus", with new bodywork added several times, and only parts of the chassis remaining from the original.