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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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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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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: An interesting day during which we got a final chance to look at next year’s Pirelli tyres. It was good to welcome George back and he was able to spend some time in FP1 refamiliarising himself with the FW43. We spent the warmer afternoon session conducting some background work before we moved on to […]
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Williams Racing is pleased to confirm that Reserve Driver Jack Aitken and Test Driver Roy Nissany will drive in the post-season Abu Dhabi test at the Yas Marina circuit on Tuesday 15th December. The team can also confirm that Roy Nissany will make his third FP1 appearance of the year at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday 27th November. Jack […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: We completed the 2019 campaign with a very productive day of testing here in Abu Dhabi. Roy began the day collecting important aero data before completing the tyre testing that he began yesterday. Once again, he drove confidently, professionally, and proficiently and provided us with some very valuable feedback on the 2020 tyres. Nicholas drove […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: George was back in the car this morning, fresh from a strong performance during the race on Sunday. We took the opportunity to explore the 2020 tyre offering from Pirelli and completed a series of comparison runs on several of the proposed 2020 compounds, using the 2019 tyres as the baseline. We were able to […]
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Race Notes George Russell finished 17th and Robert Kubica 19th in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix The Brit started 18th and Robert 19th on the grid, both on the hard Pirelli tyre Both drivers ran a one-stop strategy, Robert pitted first on lap 24 and George on lap 32, both for the medium Pirelli tyre Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: […]
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