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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “You need to start a petition here to abolish the Twitch Quartet because I was heartbroken that I wasn’t a part of this. It should have been the Twitch Quintet, I mean I was one of the originals on Twitch” – Nicholas Latifi Nicholas Latifi Urges Williams’ […]
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Williams Racing is pleased to confirm it has expanded its technical collaboration with Mercedes to include the supply of certain transferable components from 2022. Williams has been powered by Mercedes-Benz since the hybrid era began in 2014 and from 2022, the team will also use Mercedes gearboxes and related hydraulic components. Historically, Williams has built its own gearboxes and hydraulics […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “They’re going to need to invest, the new investors, a lot of money. They are behind in revenue from finishing 10th in the championship, and doesn’t appear to have much sponsorship.” – Zak Brown New Williams owners need to “get their chequebook out” Of course, the spectre […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “He’s got some ideas, particularly about how he might like to change the clutch paddle, so the sort of ergonomics of what they do. That’s something we can look at over the winter.” – Dave Robson Russell suggesting Williams changes after Mercedes experience “Really this year was […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “Ultimately I have a contract and I’m a Williams driver for 2021.” – George Russell Russell reiterates he will drive for Williams in 2021 F1 season “He’s going to be in our car, I’m hereby confirming it. We have a contract with Valtteri.” – Toto Wolff Bottas […]
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Williams Racing is delighted to announce the appointment of Jost Capito as its new Chief Executive Officer, with him set to join the team on 1 February 2021. Capito has enjoyed a wide and varied career spanning over four decades in the automotive and motorsport industries and will now help strengthen the leadership team at Williams as the company embarks […]
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: After a tricky season, it was good to finish with a productive and smooth day. Both Jack and Roy have driven the car several times this year, but for both to get a chance to have the car for a full day in the calm environment of a Young Driver Day was very valuable […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “I think we were doing a really good job up until my little incident. I can only apologise to the whole team. Just pushing a little bit too hard I think.” – Jack Aitken ‘Gutted’ Aitken ‘desperate to have another go’ with Williams after race-defining shunt “I […]
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Race Notes George Russell finished 15th and Nicholas Latifi 17th in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix George started 16th with Nicholas lining up 18th both on the medium compound George ran a one-stop strategy, pitting on lap 10 for the hard Pirelli tyre under the Virtual Safety Car Nicholas stopped twice during the race, initially on lap 11 during the […]
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Qualifying Notes George Russell qualified 18th and Nicholas Latifi 20th for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix George’s best time of Q1 was a 1:38.045 on his final effort Nicholas posted his quickest time of the session with a 1:38.443 on his second push lap Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: In the evening qualifying session, both drivers struggled with tyre […]
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