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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “It’s not up to me to judge if I am at the top of the list. For me, the situation is quite comfortable. I respect my timing and we’ll see if there is a chance.” – Robert Kubica Kubica hits back at 2019 Williams seat media report […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the Brazilian Grand Prix: “He will be much stronger having done that year in F2, but he came to me a year ago with a Powerpoint presentation with why he was going to be our best driver.” – Paddy LoweGeorge Russell tried to get Williams […]
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Race Notes Sergey Sirotkin finished 16th and Lance Stroll 18th in the Brazilian Grand Prix Both cars started the race on the soft compound Pirelli tyre, with Sergey 14th and Lance 19th on the grid Sergey made his first and only pitstop for the medium tyre on Lap 16 Lance pitted a lap later, again for the medium tyre and made his second and […]
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Qualifying Notes Sergey Sirotkin qualified 15th and Lance Stroll 19th for the Brazilian Grand PrixBoth drivers qualified on the Supersoft Pirelli tyreSergey set a time of 1:09.259 on his final flying lap in Q1 to finish 13th and progressed to Q2Lance set a time of 1:09.441 on his final run in Q1 to finish 19thOn his one and only run in Q2, Sergey was […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: It’s great to be back at Interlagos. The cars come around very quickly due to this being a short circuit, meaning life on the pitwall and in the garage is quite intense. We had a lot of problems with traffic today and both drivers struggled to get a fully clear lap when on their one lap […]
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Paddy Lowe The Autódromo José Carlos Pace presents several challenges to teams. It is a short track at just 4.3kms which means qualifying in particular is normally extremely close. Choosing the right set-up compromise is also important given the long sweeping start/finish straight combined with a tricky infield section. Sao Paulo is also at high altitude, so the power unit […]
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Williams can confirm that Rob Smedley will leave the team at the end of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship season.Rob joined the team in 2014 as Head of Performance Engineering, making his first appearance at the Bahrain Grand Prix to help guide the race operations team at a time of transition following a poor 2013 campaign. The team […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “Next year is a massive opportunity and everyone is so motivated and hungry to improve” – George Russell New driver George Russell is ‘not worried’ about Williams form “He and us, we’ve kind of got our head around it, even though it’s not perfect, unless a last-minute […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the Mexican Grand Prix: Robert Kubica is rumored to be in contention to become the new Scuderia Ferrari test driver for the 2019 Formula 1 season. Robert Kubica could become a Ferrari driver in 2019 “Next year for us is going to be very much […]
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Race Notes Lance Stroll finished 12th and Sergey Sirotkin 13th in the Mexican Grand Prix Both drivers started the race on the ultrasoft Pirelli tyre, with Lance P17 and Sergey P19 on the grid Lance and Sergey made clean starts both climbing four positions each, Lance to P13 and Sergey P15 Lance came in to pit on lap 10 for a new […]
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