Nor was getting the car to start once the engine was built. By the time the 14B arrived, laptops were required to start F1 cars. When you consider that 1992 cars require 1992 laptop technology – and the challenges involved in keeping any laptop alive for 25 years – the complications quickly become apparent.
"In the end Cosworth managed to get a new computer to run the 14B, so they ran it from their laptops, but we still needed the old laptop," says Chandhok.
"Which is hilarious, it's pre-Windows. I can't remember the last time I saw an MS DOS program. The engineers are sitting there typing 'C, colon, slash, whatever' to get the thing working. And the memory card is massive, but it only holds 1MB. In today's world, 1MB is a third of one photo on your iPhone...
"Patrick [Head] told me these stories about how in the early days of their data logging, how in the early days they had this ream of paper connected to the car, and as it's going around its writing this data directly onto the paper. It's amazing, the way technology has moved on.
"But for me, that's one of the nice things about being involved with Williams Heritage. I'm a proper, old-school geek, and I love the history of the sport and talking to people who were involved."
That advice also came in handy from a driving standpoint, particularly with a car like the 14B that was literally adjusting itself through corners.
"If I hadn't spoken to them before I drove the 14B, I would have been completely spooked," he says. "But because I'd spent a bit of time with Paddy [Lowe] and Patrick beforehand, it was, 'Oh, this kind of makes sense'.
"The car moves – it hops around; there's a lot more movement in the overall package to keep the aero stable. And some of it is unexpected, like in corner entry, the outside front wheel lifts to keep the platform stable. And that movement would spook you completely if you weren't expecting it. Mid-corner, the front dives down to generate more downforce. And the rear pops up, but then it's got a blown diffuser so you have to hammer the throttle to get the blown diffuser to work... it was so far ahead of its time. Blown diffusers, they were talking about those again in F1 in ... 2012, was it? And this is technology that was generating an extra 36 percent of downforce with a blown diffuser back in 1992."