A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week:
“There’s quite a lot of rebuilding and restructuring, and getting his experience of what state-of-the-art genuinely looks like has been quite enlightening.” – Dave Robson
F1 recovery a bigger job than originally anticipated
“Managing many touchpoints” has been key to increasing the F1 team’s outreach.
Williams Racing credits gaming and fan experiences as drivers of growth
“I’d much rather create our own programme here, it’s under my roof that I can control because the money is not a problem, we’ll spend the money required to build it up.” – James Vowles
How Williams F1 boss Vowles created his own young driver “void”
“We use this track, along with Bahrain, as the two reference circuits when you’re trying to understand, ‘did we achieve what we set out to?’ and what everyone else has done over that same period.” – Dave Robson
What Williams’s nadir really says about its 2023 F1 form
“Composites is behind what I knew when I first joined the sport with a different team 20 years ago…” – James Vowles
Some Williams F1 tech “20 years out of date” admits Vowles
“I’m looking forward to heading to Montreal as it’s a really nice atmosphere around the city. We have an upgrade coming for this weekend, so it should be interesting to see how it performs.” – Alex Albon
Albon praises ‘huge job’ done by Williams to get upgrades ready ahead of ‘tricky’ Canadian GP
“It’s genuinely difficult to understand how all those curves work in a three-dimensional space – it’s that complicated.” – Dave Robson
Red Bull F1 car floor exposes “different paradigm”, says Williams
“A financial review is coming up in the next week or two and then I think probably by July that will be finished and done with.” – James Vowles
F1 cost cap changes on infrastructure investment coming in July
“Jamie was the most successful driver in the Women’s Series, there’s no doubt about that. We had conversations with her and she’s now making a career in IndyCar” – James Vowles
There won’t be a woman in F1 for years
“We had an agreement that with our money they would develop the car and we would start doing something together. But, of course, we were deceived” – Boris Rotenberg
Sirotkin F1 backer says Williams ‘deceived’ them
“I’m never completely satisfied and there’s nothing to be satisfied about yet, so, yeah, plenty to work on and plenty to improve on. That has to be the goal.” – Logan Sargeant
American F1 rookie Logan Sargeant: I have to be better
“There’s nothing on there that’s based on the other cars we’ve seen on cranes over the last couple of weeks. It’s a bit different. But it doesn’t look like the Red Bull, I can promise you that.” – Dave Robson
How Williams has overhauled its FW45 F1 car
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