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Race Notes Nicholas Latifi finished 11th on his Formula One debut in the Austrian Grand Prix George Russell was forced to retire after losing fuel pressure on lap 49 George started the race 17th, and Nicholas 20th, both on the medium Pirelli tyre Both cars pitted under the Safety Car for the hard Pirelli tyre, George on lap 25 and […]
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Qualifying Notes George Russell qualified 17th and Nicholas Latifi 20th for the Austrian Grand Prix George clocked a quickest time of 1:05.167 on the first lap of his final run in Q1 On Nicholas’s debut F1 qualifying session he recorded a best time of 1:05.757 Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: The car showed reasonable pace in the morning session […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: It has been great to run the cars again and to finally begin the 2020 season, especially in the imposing surroundings of the Red Bull Ring. The ‘closed’ nature of the event undoubtedly makes for a different working environment but, so far, our tentative steps back towards racing have gone very well. We are grateful […]
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After its postponement in the wake of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, and a 63-day shutdown period, the long anticipated 2020 season officially restarts this weekend in Austria. The revised calendar will see two races held at the same circuit on consecutive weekends and to ensure the safety of all involved, the event will sadly be closed to spectators. Both George […]
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The 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship kicks off this weekend as we head down under to the beautiful Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, with the city set to celebrate its 25th year hosting Grands Prix. ROKiT Williams Racing heads into 2020 with a new driver line-up but the same fighting spirit, as Canadian driver Nicholas Latifi steps up to […]
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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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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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