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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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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2017 Bahrain Test “Paddy [Lowe]’s arrival into the team has been hugely motivational more than anything so far.” – Claire Williams Paddy Lowe’s arrival has been hugely motivational “I don’t have as many concerns as you might imagine. I think Lance has really proved […]
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Driver: Gary PaffettChassis / Engine: FW40-01 / Mercedes-AMG F1 M08 EQ Power+ Location: Bahrain International Circuit, 5.412km Weather: Warm and Dry Maximum air & track temps: 37ºC / 40ºC Rod Nelson, Chief Test & Support Engineer: It’s been a very productive day. The morning was mostly spent undertaking aero investigations, and in the afternoon we covered some chassis and tyre […]
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Driver: Lance Stroll / Felipe Massa Chassis / Engine: FW40-01 / Mercedes-AMG F1 M08 EQ Power+ Location: Bahrain International Circuit, 5.412km Weather: Warm and Dry Maximum air & track temps: 35ºC / 41ºC Rod Nelson, Chief Test & Support Engineer: We had an interesting day. It is very different running continuously in the heat of the day rather than under […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2017 Bahrain Grand Prix Williams Advanced Engineering, the technology development arm of the Williams F1 team, has had funding from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to develop batteries for electric cars. Williams gets government grant for electric car battery development From everyone at Williams, […]
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Felipe Massa finished sixth in the Bahrain Grand Prix Lance Stroll’s race came to an early conclusion on lap 12 after being hit by Sainz Both cars started the race on the supersoft tyre. Felipe gained several positions to jump up to P6, while Lance fell to P14 Lance was closing in on Palmer before pitting for a new set […]
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