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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2018 Chinese Grand Prix: “I hope we can be better in China, but behind the scenes there is a lot of work to be done.” Williams departs Bahrain as only F1 team without 2018 point “On paper and in aerodynamic numbers, the car looks […]
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Race Notes Lance Stroll finished 14th and Sergey Sirotkin 15th in the Chinese Grand Prix Both cars started on the soft Pirelli tyre, with Lance starting 18th and Sergey 16th Both cars made good starts, making up multiple positions to end the opening lap with Lance moving up to 12th and Sergey 15th Lance made his only pitstop of the […]
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Qualifying Notes Sergey Sirotkin qualified 16th and Lance Stroll 18th for the Chinese Grand Prix Both Sergey and Lance qualified on the ultrasoft Pirelli tyre Both drivers improved lap-by-lap with their first runs initially placing Sergey and Lance seventh and ninth respectively A flurry of late improvements from other cars knocked both drivers down the order Both cars pitted for […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: We had a pretty busy programme planned for today with a lot of aerodynamic tests. With rain predicted for FP2, we shuffled the tyres around between both sessions relative to our normal pattern. We’ve completed all of our programmes that we set out to do, even though we lost some track time with the rain […]
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Paddy Lowe We head to China for the first back-to-back race of the season. The Shanghai International Circuit is a great track with some demanding high-speed corners and a long back straight which is traditionally good for overtaking. It is an important race as it is an exciting new market for Formula one with a rapidly growing fan base. It […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix: “It’s something at Williams – whether it’s Lance Stroll’s perception or something Williams aren’t doing.” Why Williams has no ‘easy solution’ to tough F1 2018 start “I would not say that I’m a teacher and they’re my students, but they […]
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Race Notes Lance Stroll finished 16th and Sergey Sirotkin 17th in the Bahrain Grand Prix Both cars started on the soft Pirelli tyre, with Sergey starting 18th and Lance 20th Both cars made the most of a frenetic opening lap, with Lance moving up to 15th and Sergey 17th Lance suffered damage and had to pit earlier than expected for […]
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Qualifying Notes Sergey Sirotkin qualified 18th and Lance Stroll 20th for the Bahrain Grand Prix Both Sergey and Lance qualified on the supersoft Pirelli tyre The session was disrupted by a red flag when the Red Bull of Verstappen went into the barriers Sergey set a decent first lap-time, but was unable to improve on his second flying lap due […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: We completed our programme with two relatively minor issues; one on Lance’s car in FP1, which lost us his final run but was easily fixed, and a puncture on Lance’s car on his final run of FP2 cut that run short. Other than that, we ran a number of experiments across both sides of the […]
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Paddy Lowe Bahrain is a great track with a unique atmosphere under the lights as darkness falls in the desert. It is a tricky race for car setup, as FP1 and FP3 occur in the afternoon with very high track temperatures and do not represent the cooler conditions seen in the twilight sessions for qualifying and the race. Therefore, FP2 […]
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