Williams’ 2024 F1 challenger - the FW46♔ - has appeared for the first time in a shakedown in Bahrain.

It’s the first time Williams’ new car has taken to the track ahead o🌺f the new sea💃son having only revealed their new livery earlier this month as part of a ‘season launch’.

In footage released on the team’s social media accounts, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant was s🅘een driving out of the pit lane in the new car on Tuesday morning.

The FW46 rolls out in Bahrain

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Williams had considered giving the car its track deꦑbut at Silverstone - like McLaren, Aston Martin and Mercedes did - but given the weather conditions, team principal James Vowles thought it would have been a waste of ﷽time.

“We could easily have run down there,” Vowles said 🎃as reported by The Race. “But there was a balance between doing the virtual trac🔜k test and Silverstone.

“A bit of it is we've pushed ourselves to the absolute limits, a bit of it is actually I believe far more in doing other testing, if you'd like to call i💟t that, and then use Bahr൩ain as the opportunity to get started.”

Williams enjoyed their best seasoꦬn in six years in 2023, securing seventh in the constructors’ championship.

This was mainly down to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon’s run of sensational performa𝓀nces, capitalising on any opportunity the team had to sc🃏ore points.

In a bid to continue their impressive form, Williams have adopted🌌 an aggressive approach with the design of the FW46.

Vowles explained: “What we were doing with this car is pushing everything to the limits. “And to give you id𓃲eas about that, the ch🌠assis technology is different, some of the other technologies are quite different to what we've done before.

“Those changes are enormous for an organisation, absolutely enormous. Some of those h💧ave challenged us to🐼 push ourselves beyond where we wanted to be.

“You simply can't do everything at the same time, you can't change what you're doing and break technology cycles, and put yourself in a much better performance situation🎉, without taking an enormous amount of risk.

“And we have, but there's no doubt about it having th🌄e car where wღe have it now, and you'll see it in Bahrain, is late.”

Sargeant and Alex Albon will get an extended run out in the FW46 when pre-seaso⛎n testing kicks off in Bahrain on February 21.