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Qualifying Notes Sergey Sirotkin qualified 19th with Lance Stroll 20th for the French Grand Prix Both drivers qualified on the ultrasoft Pirelli tyre Sergey set three consecutive personal best lap times during Q1, but failed to progress into Q2 Lance set a 1:34.221 before pitting for fresh tyres. He was forced to abort his first flying lap on the new […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: In FP1 we ran several tests and experiments across the cars on both aerodynamics and brakes. In FP2 we conducted our normal programme of tyre evaluations on both low and high fuel, split across the drivers with the soft and supersoft tyre compounds. We had no issues and both drivers achieved what they set out […]
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Williams Heritage is delighted to confirm its attendance at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed on 12-15th July. Karun Chandhok will return to the famous Goodwood hill in the Williams-BMW FW26, meanwhile the team’s six-wheeled FW08B will be on static display. This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrates its Silver Jubilee anniversary and reflects on the best moments from the […]
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Paddy Lowe This weekend sees the return of the French GP to the Formula One calendar. France has a great history of racing so it will be fantastic to make our first return to the country since the last race was held in 2008 in Magny-Cours. This weekend however, Formula One returns to Paul Ricard for the first race since […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “I haven’t done a good enough job in making the right level of progress. I’ve been with the team 12 months, and there are things which we should have responded to earlier.” – Paddy Lowe What’s up with Williams? Analysing the F1 great’s struggles in 2018 We […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2018 Canadian Grand Prix: On-track, former F1 racer Karun Chandhok thrilled the fans with a handful of demonstration laps in an ex-Keke Rosberg Williams FW08C. 1992 F1 champion Mansell and Walker mark 50th Thruxton anniversary “Everything went very well at the test [in Barcelona] […]
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Race Notes Sergey Sirotkin finished 17th in the Canadian Grand Prix, meanwhile Lance Stroll retired following a collision with Brendon Hartley Lance started the race in 16th on the ultrasoft Pirelli tyre Sergey started on the supersoft Pirelli tyre in 17th position Both cars made clean starts, with Sergey gaining several positions by turn two On the first lap, the safety car was […]
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Qualifying Notes Lance Stroll qualified 17th and Sergey Sirotkin 18th for the Canadian Grand Prix Both Lance and Sergey qualified on the hypersoft Pirelli tyre Both drivers made consecutive laptime improvements but failed to make it out of Q1 Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: It was a good job done by the team today with no mistakes. The cars were as […]
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Rob Smedley, Head of Performance Engineering: This morning we concentrated on aerodynamic development in the realms of the front end of the car. We collected lots of important data which will be fed into the development programme and we made some good discoveries. We incurred a bit of damage with drivers pushing to the limits straight away this morning, but […]
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Paddy Lowe We are all looking forward to returning to the fantastic city of Montreal. It is of course Lance’s home race, and also where he scored his first Formula One points last year in his rookie season, so it holds good memories. It is a very different track to Monaco; it is much faster with some very long straights […]
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