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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “The situation has been horrifically challenging and very difficult, but I’m always motivated by the people we have in this team, and they’ve never shown any signs of giving up, so I wasn’t going to either.” – Claire Williams Criticism ‘just makes me fight even harder’ “They […]
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Race Notes George Russell finished 12th and Robert Kubica 16th in the Brazilian Grand Prix The Brit started 18th and Robert 19th on the grid, both on the medium Pirelli tyre George ran a three-stop race, pitting first for the medium on lap 23 and then twice again for the softs on laps 54 and 66 Robert ran a four-stop […]
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Qualifying Notes George Russell qualified 18th and Robert Kubica 19th for the Brazilian Grand Prix The driver’s best times were, 1:10.126 for George, and 1:10.614 for Robert Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: The team worked incredibly hard last night to build a replacement chassis for Robert following his crash yesterday. The warmer conditions helped the tyre performance today and we […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: The heavy overnight rain was supplemented by further showers before and during FP1. This is quite common in Sao Paulo in November and we had a suitable programme prepared, which we would have executed successfully but for the red flag at the end of the session. George and Nicholas drove very well in the wet […]
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It’s time for the penultimate round of the 2019 Formula One World Championship, the Brazilian Grand Prix. Autódromo José Carlos Pace, more commonly referred to as Interlagos, provides drivers and engineers with many challenges, not least because the track runs in an anti-clockwise direction and is at high altitude, which makes it tough on power units. The carnival atmosphere in […]
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Race Notes Sergey Sirotkin finished 16th and Lance Stroll 18th in the Brazilian Grand Prix Both cars started the race on the soft compound Pirelli tyre, with Sergey 14th and Lance 19th on the grid Sergey made his first and only pitstop for the medium tyre on Lap 16 Lance pitted a lap later, again for the medium tyre and made his second and […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: It’s great to be back at Interlagos. The cars come around very quickly due to this being a short circuit, meaning life on the pitwall and in the garage is quite intense. We had a lot of problems with traffic today and both drivers struggled to get a fully clear lap when on their one lap […]
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Paddy Lowe The Autódromo José Carlos Pace presents several challenges to teams. It is a short track at just 4.3kms which means qualifying in particular is normally extremely close. Choosing the right set-up compromise is also important given the long sweeping start/finish straight combined with a tricky infield section. Sao Paulo is also at high altitude, so the power unit […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2017 Brazilian Grand Prix “What I feel the most guilty about [is] the fact that I screwed up the aerodynamics of the car” – Adrian Newey Newey confesses he still feels guilty over Senna’s death Williams are set to give Robert Kubica a third […]
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Race Notes: – Felipe Massa finished seventh and Lance Stroll 16th in the Brazilian Grand Prix – Both cars started on the supersoft Pirelli tyre, with Felipe starting in ninth and Lance 16th due to several penalties to other drivers including a 5-place penalty for Lance after a gearbox change – Both Felipe and Lance avoided several accidents on the […]
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