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Qualifying Notes George Russell qualified 18th and Nicholas Latifi 19th for the Spanish Grand Prix George set a 1:18.099, his best time of the session, on his second run Nicholas meanwhile improved on his final lap of his third run in Q1, posting a 1:18.532 Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: We have had a tough day today and we […]
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: Roy Nissany drove the car during FP1 and did a very good job, showing good pace and completing his part of the test programme without issue. Between the two cars we got through quite a lot of chassis work during FP1, but the main observations were around the tyres, which clearly weren’t easy to […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “The business model in Formula 1 is changing. And you’ve always got to have an eye on ensuring your business model remains sustainable. You can’t just have just a dream. Pride comes before a fall at the end of the day. So it’s always something that we’re […]
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Claire Williams, Deputy Team Principal: We have had a very busy time in Barcelona. Everyone in the team, here and at the factory, has done a fantastic job to ensure we managed to complete the majority of our planned programme. Unfortunately, some of our run plans were impacted by the number of engine reliability issues that materialised over the six days, […]
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: Today Nicholas completed his in-car preparation ahead of the start of the new race season. He enjoyed a productive day, completing 160 laps despite the damp start and the red flags. We were able to complete some more setup work, building on the data that we have been gathering since Wednesday of last week. […]
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: The Team has spent the last few days going over the data that we collected last week, and this has allowed us to begin finalising parts of the aero specification of the car. Today we collected more rake data early in the day, which enabled us to complete that basic aero definition of the […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: The car’s livery has been significantly revised from the predominantly white and blue colour scheme from 2019 for the new season. Williams unveils 2020 FW43 F1 challenger in revised livery “The main concept behind the FW43 is that it is a continuous development of the FW42, with […]
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: Nicholas was back in the car today and we had a full programme planned for him. Unfortunately, during the morning we saw something in the data which gave us concern over the power unit. A subsequent investigation meant we couldn’t get back on track until late in the afternoon. However, the mechanics did a […]
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: George drove the car today and took the opportunity to build on the work we undertook yesterday. We again started the day with aero work, constructing a programme based on yesterday’s findings. Once the track reached a more useful temperature, we started our new tyre work concentrating on more aero development and some tyre […]
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Claire Williams, Deputy Team Principal: Today was just the beginning of our 2020 campaign, but we feel we’ve made a good start. Being the first car out on track this morning may not win us any prizes, but it was a clear statement of intent and lays to rest some of the ghosts of last year. The rest of the […]
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