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Race Notes:– George Russell finished 14th and Nicholas Latifi 16th in the Spanish Grand Prix– The Brit started 15th and the Canadian 19th, both on the soft Pirelli tyre– George ran a two-stop race, pitting on lap 9 under the Safety Car and once again on lap 28, each time for the medium compound– Nicholas ran a three-stop strategy pitting […]
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Qualifying Notes: – George Russell qualified 15th and Nicholas Latifi 19th for the Spanish Grand Prix– George made it into Q2 for the fourth consecutive time this season, where he posted a 1:19.154 on a used set of the soft Pirelli tyres– Nicholas continued to improve throughout Q1, posting his quickest time with a 1:19.219– Congratulations to Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton […]
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Circuit De Barcelona-Catalunya plays host to the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, with the team travelling across the border for the fourth round of the 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship. The circuit is very familiar amongst drivers, who are used to pounding around the 4.675km track for winter testing. However, a break from tradition means this will be our […]
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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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