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Paddy Lowe Spa is one of the greatest tracks on earth, in my opinion. It is one of the longest standing venues on the Formula One calendar and has been the setting of many dramatic races in the past. It has a fast characteristic, with a lot of changes in elevation, rewarding power and downforce. The most famous Eau Rouge […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “[It] 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 […]
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Yesterday, a team that we don’t mention on this site (M*****n) issued plans for a Grand Prix around the streets of Woking. Here at The Williams Database we thought we could do better and so we bring you the 2018 Autotype Grove Grand Prix! At 3.45 miles (5.55 kilometres) this is a challenging anti-clockwise circuit that makes use of the […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “Definitely at the half-term report stage we’re not looking as good as we’d like. We’re very disappointed, the car is quicker than that points table would reflect” – Paddy Lowe Williams F1 ‘very disappointed’ with first half performance Mike O’Driscoll, who is chief executive of the Grove-based […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2017 Hungarian Test “There are some fairly significant bits that we’re trying. We’re doing some interesting bits of R&D.” – Paddy Lowe Williams to trial “significant” car changes in Hungary test “My feet were killing me.” – Paul Di Resta Williams stand-in di Resta: […]
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The Williams 40th anniversary celebrations have seen a wide variety of things taking place including a display of past and present machinery at Silverstone to the release of a Williams version of Monopoly. As part of this has also seen the release of a film called, simply, Williams. I went to see it and if you are a Williams fan […]
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Driver: Luca Ghiotto Chassis / Engine: FW40-02 / Mercedes-AMG F1 M08 EQ Power+ Location: Hungaroring, 4.326 km Weather: Warm and dry Maximum air and track temperature: 36ºC / 53ºC Rod Nelson, Chief Test & Support Engineer: On the second day of the test here in Hungary we had Luca in the car. We had a very optimistic program and we […]
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Driver: Lance Stroll Chassis / Engine: FW40-02 / Mercedes-AMG F1 M08 EQ Power+ Location: Hungaroring, 4.326 km Weather: Warm and dry Maximum air and track temperature: 35ºC / 55ºC Rod Nelson, Chief Test & Support Engineer: We completed a lot of tests today, completing 15 runs and 138 laps. We worked on mechanical set-up and some set-up directions that we’ve […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix “I spoke to them last year and I spoke to them this year as well, but it’s a great team but just for me it was time.” – Jenson Button Jenson Button admits he almost signed for Williams before taking […]
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Race Notes: Lance Stroll finished 14th whilst Paul di Resta was forced to retire from the Hungarian Grand Prix Both drivers avoided incidents in the opening turns and gained two places each on the first lap, to P15 and P17 respectively, before the safety car was deployed Lance ran P15 for the duration, making the fastest pitstop of the race […]
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