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It’s the first back-to-back race of the 2019 FIA Formula One season as we head to Austria. Located in the Styrian mountains, the track is one of the highest circuits on the calendar at 600m above sea level. The undulating setting provides a spectacular backdrop and is popular amongst our drivers, despite the short lap. Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: The […]
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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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Paddy Lowe We head straight on from France to the Austrian GP, for the second race in the triple-header race weekends. The undulating track is surrounded by impressive scenery, and the circuit itself also tends to produce some great racing. The track is quite short, so sessions can feel quite busy, but it is a circuit where we have seen […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2017 Austrian Grand Prix “It’s not fair to the other drivers because he is the only one to have this privilege thanks to his money” – Jacques Villeneuve Jacques Villeneuve says F1 driver Lance Stroll’s extra testing is ‘circumventing the rules’ “We do not […]
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Race Notes: – Felipe Massa finished ninth and Lance Stroll tenth at the Austrian Grand Prix, securing three championship points for WILLIAMS MARTINI RACING – Both drivers had impressive starts to the race, managing to avoid a number of incidents on the opening corners – In the opening lap, Felipe gained seven places up to P10 and Lance moved up […]
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Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 4.326 km / 2.688 miles Weather: Warm and dry Temperature: Air:28-30°C Track:38-44°C Q1 F. Massa 1:06.534 (17th) L. Stroll 1:06.608 (18th) Q2 L. Stroll – F. Massa – Q3 L. Stroll – F. Massa –
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: We were carrying out tests across the garage on suspension and aerodynamics with some new parts that we brought this weekend. Both cars ran wide at Turn Nine in the morning session and suffered some damage unfortunately, but we were able to put that right for FP2. We’re doing more work with set-up in FP2 […]
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Paddy Lowe We head to the Austrian GP this weekend in the picturesque Styrian mountains. The track itself is dramatic with a lot of elevation and some interesting corners which tend to produce some great racing. It is very short which makes racing quite dynamic, as the cars come round pretty quickly for a fresh lap. That keeps us on […]
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