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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “It’s difficult to say it’s fun, it’s at least experience, and those two races gave me good answers and valuable experience definitely.” – Robert Kubica Robert Kubica a passenger while driving Williams’ 2019 F1 carK “It’s very difficult for me to talk about Paddy and his role […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: Conditions in Sakhir have been much better today following yesterday’s disrupted running. We have enjoyed warm and calm conditions for much of the day, which has allowed us to progress the engineering programme quite quickly. Nicholas has had his first day of running in the FW42 and has done an excellent job. He started with some […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: it was a very frustrating day for everyone here in Bahrain. Conditions first thing this morning looked reasonable following the dust clouds yesterday and some overnight rain. However, some further rain meant that little happened between mid-morning and early evening when conditions improved again. We were able to complete some aero testing early in the morning […]
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Race Notes George Russell finished 15th and Robert Kubica 16th in the Bahrain Grand Prix George started 19th on the soft Pirelli tyre, with Robert lining up 20th on the grid using the medium tyre George and Robert made clean starts picking up several positions, with the pair battling each other in the early stages of the race Both drivers ran a two-stop race, […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: It is the second race of the season and we have very different conditions here to those in Melbourne. It was extremely hot and windy in FP1 which made life very difficult for all the cars as well as making learning tricky. We were able to get through some interesting tests based on some of the […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix: “It’s something at Williams – whether it’s Lance Stroll’s perception or something Williams aren’t doing.” Why Williams has no ‘easy solution’ to tough F1 2018 start “I would not say that I’m a teacher and they’re my students, but they […]
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Race Notes Lance Stroll finished 16th and Sergey Sirotkin 17th in the Bahrain Grand Prix Both cars started on the soft Pirelli tyre, with Sergey starting 18th and Lance 20th Both cars made the most of a frenetic opening lap, with Lance moving up to 15th and Sergey 17th Lance suffered damage and had to pit earlier than expected for […]
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Qualifying Notes Sergey Sirotkin qualified 18th and Lance Stroll 20th for the Bahrain Grand Prix Both Sergey and Lance qualified on the supersoft Pirelli tyre The session was disrupted by a red flag when the Red Bull of Verstappen went into the barriers Sergey set a decent first lap-time, but was unable to improve on his second flying lap due […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: We completed our programme with two relatively minor issues; one on Lance’s car in FP1, which lost us his final run but was easily fixed, and a puncture on Lance’s car on his final run of FP2 cut that run short. Other than that, we ran a number of experiments across both sides of the […]
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Paddy Lowe Bahrain is a great track with a unique atmosphere under the lights as darkness falls in the desert. It is a tricky race for car setup, as FP1 and FP3 occur in the afternoon with very high track temperatures and do not represent the cooler conditions seen in the twilight sessions for qualifying and the race. Therefore, FP2 […]
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