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It’s the first back-to-back race of the 2019 FIA Formula One season as we head to Austria. Located in the Styrian mountains, the track is one of the highest circuits on the calendar at 600m above sea level. The undulating setting provides a spectacular backdrop and is popular amongst our drivers, despite the short lap. Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: The […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “We often talk about this subject, and a lot depends on the direction Robert will take. After all, he has a good sense of the sport” Sponsor may push Robert Kubica away from Williams F1 Insinuate yourself into its snug-fitting, tailormade, carbon composite cockpit and you will […]
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Race Notes Robert Kubica 18th finished and George Russell 19th in the French Grand Prix Both drivers started on the medium Pirelli tyre, Robert 18th and George 20th on the grid Robert ran a one-stop race, pitting on lap 24 for the hard Pirelli tyre George ran a two-stop race, pitting on lap 25 for the hard Pirelli tyre, before front wing damage resulted […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: There have been numerous changes to the circuit since last year. This has included further resurfacing, some of which has been done very recently. This, combined with the hot conditions in FP1, appeared to lead to quite low grip with most cars suffering with an oversteer balance. Both drivers did a good job of completing the […]
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It’s time for us to return to Europe, as we head to Circuit Paul Ricard located in between the cities of Marseille and Toulon on the French Riviera. The track features an even distribution of high, medium and low-speed corners, and for those reasons is one of the most used test circuits in the world. Along with this, the red […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “Just in general, the tests I’ve done with Williams, every time I climb in the car, I feel more comfortable” – Nicholas Latifi Latifi more comfortable driving the Williams F1 car Carlos Sainz Jr and George Russell are proving to be the underdog stars of Autosport readers’ […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “We instilled lots of new engineering practices, but the next part of the journey was R&D investment and that never happened.” – Rob Smedley ‘Williams F1 never invested enough in R&D’ BBC Sport spends time in Monaco with Williams driver George Russell as he takes us through […]
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Race Notes George Russell finished 16th and Robert Kubica 18th in the Canadian Grand Prix The Brit started 18th and Robert 19th on the grid, both on the medium Pirelli tyre George ran a one-stop race, pitting on lap nine for the hard Pirelli tyre Robert pitted twice during the race, on laps eight and 38 for the hard Pirelli tyres Dave Robson, Senior […]
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Qualifying Notes George Russell qualified 19th and Robert Kubica 20th for the Canadian Grand Prix George continued to improve on his time with a 1:13.617 on his final flying lap of Q1 to finish P19 Robert’s best time of the session was a 1:14.393 to finish P20 Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: The track was in much better condition today, but it was […]
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer: At the start of FP1 the track was very dirty, making learning very difficult. Fortunately, we were able to gather some data with both cars whilst the track continued to improve. Nicholas focussed on some initial tyre work, running both the Option and Qualifying compounds, whilst George did some early set-up work using two sets of […]
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