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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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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “Now we can confirm that Barcelona was a one-off. We are there, we are fighting, which is good not just in terms of the result but also mentally for all of us.” – Sergey Sirotkin Sirotkin convinced Monaco proves Williams has cleared F1 2018 nadir “Let’s say […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix: This, however, is a team boasting 114 race victories (only Ferrari and McLaren have won more). A team with tradition, character, charisma and pride. A team whose cars have won everywhere that F1 history is made, from Monaco to Monza, […]
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Race Notes Sergey Sirotkin finished 16th and Lance Stroll 17th in the Monaco Grand Prix Both cars started on the hypersoft Pirelli tyre, with Sergey starting 13th and Lance 17th Both cars made clean starts with each gaining a position on lap one On lap seven, Sergey was handed a 10-second stop-go penalty for a tyre infringement on the grid, […]
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Qualifying Notes Sergey Sirotkin qualified 13th and Lance Stroll 18th for the Monaco Grand Prix Both Sergey and Lance qualified on the hypersoft Pirelli tyre Sergey performed strongly in Q1 to end the session in P8, making it comfortably through to Q2 Lance endured a tricky session with yellow flags and a loose head rest interrupting his running, and failed […]
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