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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: In the wake of the British Grand Prix, three teams have stayed on to carry out the test. Haas are fielding Romain Grosjean, Williams have sent Robert Kubica, and Red Bull have sent Sebastien Buemi out. Pirelli tyre testing resumes at Silverstone Testing is underway! We are […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2018 British Grand Prix: “It’s a very well respected team. Frank’s values, the way he’s approached motor racing, is instilled in the team and continued by Claire in a great way – a sense of sportsmanship and humility around what we do.” – Paddy […]
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Race Notes Lance Stroll finished 13th and Sergey Sirotkin 14th in the British Grand Prix Both drivers started the race from the pitlane after the team broke parc ferme following Saturday’s qualifying session in order to make changes to the cars Lance started on the Pirelli medium tyre with Sergey starting on the soft tyre Both cars did well to […]
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Qualifying Notes Sergey Sirotkin qualified 18th for the British Grand Prix Lance failed to set a time after going off into the gravel on his first flying lap, bringing out a red flag Once the session resumed, Sergey suffered a similar incident but managed to get out of the gravel and returned to the pits On his second attempt, Sergey […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: This morning we had some new aerodynamic components including a new rear wing that we were testing. We went through a very thorough programme just to make sure that that was working well. On Lance’s car, we were trying a continuation of the diffuser work that we had done in Austria with some success and […]
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Paddy Lowe There is always something special about the British GP, as it is the team’s home event and we get to race in front of all our home fans who show up whatever the weather may bring. The crowd always create a special atmosphere and the circuit itself combines long sweeping corners and fast straights which makes it enjoyable […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix: “Formula E is the perfect environment for this step into team management: it is full of potential, breaking the mould for traditional racing series, and the series is enjoying an exciting phase of expansion at the moment.” – Susie Wolff […]
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Race Notes Lance Stroll finished 13th and Sergey Sirotkin 14th in the Austrian GP Lance had a strong start and made up two places to P11 whilst Sergey initially dropped to P17 avoiding collisions Lance made his first pitstop on lap 15 to switch to the Pirelli soft tyre On lap 21, Sergey continued to climb and reached P11 before […]
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Qualifying Notes Lance Stroll qualified 15th and Sergey Sirotkin 18th for the Austrian Grand Prix Both Lance and Sergey qualified on the ultrasoft Pirelli tyre Sergey made consecutive lap-time improvements but failed to make it out of Q1 due to a yellow flag on his final run Lance made it into Q2 and continued to better his lap times throughout both sessions […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: It’s been a productive day. The weather looked a bit threatening throughout but we have managed to avoid any of the rain that was around in the hills and complete our full programme. It was good to have Robert back in the car as it was the first time since the Barcelona test. As always, […]
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