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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “It’s not the end of the world. We score the points in the racing not in the testing, so we have to keep our heads held high, and make the most of the situation.” Drivers must motivate troubled Williams Formula 1 team “The innovative use of lightweight […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: The start of our first proper pre-season testing with the FW42. The final few parts had arrived overnight, so we started the day with a complete car. The main focus of the programme has been data gathering particularly around aerodynamics with only a very modest amount of performance running for the drivers just to get some […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: It’s very disappointing to miss two days of this first test in Barcelona, but we are very happy today that we got the car out for the afternoon session. We were late but not for the lack of incredible effort from the whole team both in the factory and here in the garage. We spent the […]
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Driver: Robert Kubica Chassis / Engine: FW41-02 / Mercedes-AMG F1 M09 EQ Power+ Location: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, 4.655 km Weather: Warm and dry Temperatures (min-max): Air 22ºC / Track 30ºC Dave Robson, Performance Projects – Principal Engineer: We’ve had another very busy and productive day today with a lot of laps completed. We’ve run a solid programme with Robert, building […]
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Driver: Oliver Rowland Chassis / Engine: FW41-02 / Mercedes-AMG F1 M09 EQ Power+ Location: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, 4.655 km Weather: Warm and dry Temperatures (min-max): Air 16-26ºC / Track 18-36ºC Dave Robson, Performance Projects – Principal Engineer: It’s been a really good day of testing. Oliver’s got through in excess of 120 laps which, given this was achieved within a […]
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Race Notes Lance Stroll finished 11th and Sergey Sirotkin 14th in the Spanish Grand Prix Both cars started on the soft Pirelli tyre, with Lance starting 18th and Sergey 19th Lance had an excellent start to climb to P12 on the opening lap meanwhile a crash between Grosjean, Hulkenberg and Gasly brought out the Safety Car Sergey had to take […]
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Qualifying Notes Sergey Sirotkin qualified 18th and Lance Stroll 19th for the Spanish Grand Prix Both Sergey and Lance qualified on the supersoft Pirelli tyre After completing initial runs, both drivers returned to the track with less than five minutes remaining, and Sergey improved by half a second to go P18 Lance improved and set personal best times in sectors […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: Firstly I want to congratulate Robert on his first official F1 session since he left the sport at the end of 2010. He did a fantastic job for us today, and it is a great credit to his determination and character that we have seen his return to F1. I’m only sorry that the car […]
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Paddy Lowe We come to Spain this weekend and the very demanding Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. They say that the car that is quickest around here is generally going to be quickest at most races in the season. It is the first race where traditionally you see many more upgrades arriving, as we are back to our truck-based logistics rather than […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the second week of 2018 testing: “With all of us working together I believe that we will be able to help the team in the best way possible.” – Lance Stroll Lance Stroll confident of being able to lead Williams F1 in 2018 “I have […]
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