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Race Notes George Russell finished 16th and Robert Kubica 17th in the Australian Grand Prix George started 19th on the medium Pirelli tyre, with Robert 20th on the grid on the hard George had a clean two stop race, boxing on Laps 26 for the soft Pirelli tyre and for the hard on Lap 42 After contact at turn one Robert picked up damage […]
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Qualifying Notes George Russell qualified 19th and Robert Kubica 20th for the Australian Grand Prix George set a time of 1:24.360 on his third and final flying lap of Q1 to finish P19 Robert improved on his second flying lap to a 1:26.067 but a puncture on his last effort meant that he was unable to progress, finishing the session in P20 […]
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After an intense winter, the 2019 FIA Formula One World Championship is officially about to get underway! The season kicks off this weekend at Australia’s Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit with ROKiT Williams Racing heading into 2019 with a new look, a new driver line-up, and renewed energy. Robert Kubica has stepped up into a full-time race seat having served as […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: For the final day of the pre-season testing we planned an ambitious programme to mirror George’s from yesterday. This involved more data gathering in the early cool track conditions which we achieved very well, followed by some performance experiments and a qualifying simulation before lunch. The long running in the afternoon was unfortunately brought to a […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: It was another great day weather wise, and again a very ambitious programme with three segments. We ran some more aerodynamic measurements in the morning, this time with our very largest rake assembly. We spent the second part of the morning on qualifying practice, running four sets of new tyres at low fuel. In the afternoon […]
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: It was a good day of testing with George driving the car. We completed 119 laps without any significant reliability issues, so we achieved the entire programme that we had planned from the start of the day. We completed a mixture of data gathering and performance running at low and high fuel on a range of […]
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Claire Williams, Deputy Team Principal, ROKiT Williams Racing: “It is looking more likely than not that we will now not be in a position to run on track until Wednesday at the earliest. This is obviously extremely disappointing, but it is unfortunately the situation we are in. We will be getting the FW42 on track as soon as we are […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2018 Hungarian Test: “I question whether I’m the right person to be doing this job. If anyone in Williams says to my face that I was damaging the team, then I would go.” – Claire Williams Claire Williams considers quitting F1 “I think everyone […]
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