Williams brought a number of updates to Spain for the first European Grand Prix of the season, and have once again found all its updates working as expected, confirming research and simulation work done at the factory.
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what we didn't know is that this year will be a new "S" logo:
Ever since the great Brazilian was killed at the wheel of a Williams in 1994, the British team has carried his familiar logo on the front wing supports.
"Together with the Senna family, we're creating a new logo to use on our car this year," Brazil's Globo quotes deputy team boss Claire Williams as saying.
“The force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded”: [Obi Wan Kenobi]
The team would be crazy in my opinion to abandon the blue they are using as an interim livery during testing. I'd like to see it having a place on the final livery.
Can anyone tell me why Williams spent the huge majority of today's testing doing put stop practice? Most teams have been wanting race simulations. It just seems a little strange to me. I would have thought running through tire evals on race simulations would have been a higher priority? Or do they think that their upgrade package would be better used by doing race evals then?
Williams did make a race sim yesterday, and they need pit stop practice more than other teams, becouse there pit stops last year were one of the worts ones on the grid. By one of the worst ones, I think slow and unreliable. They got fined 2 times becouse of the badly screwd on wheel. I hope that it was well worth one day of testing for that, but then again,if I remmember corectly, they done this last year to...
The other thing to consider is that, if they are running further up the grid and competing with the likes of McLaren, Red Bull, Renault, Ferrari et al, they need to be setting competitive pit stops...
Favourite driver: Lando Norris
Favourite team: McLaren
Turned down the chance to meet Vettel at Silverstone in 2007. He was a test driver at the time and I didn't think it was worth queuing!! 🤦🏻♂️
Williams seems to catch a whole load of sponsors recently, claire must be offering 'something on the side' lol. (/kidding).
still, let's not get too carried away. the car surely will look great [already looks good] with the martini livery - but livery
doesn't equal speed - and neither does money guarantee speed. Mercedes without doubt is a good engine deal and will
provide power - BUT.
let's not forget, the past years, williams had a vast amount of money from Pastor's PDVSA money. AND they had the same
engine as the championship winner RedBull.
As positive i feel for williams now - despite i had very grim view on their future - there is still zero to be sure about. Only
when the year is over, you can tell where williams has ended.
If there is one aspect where i'd say; yes, that's a plus, it's Massa there. But it's only a plus because Bottas is a rookie,
and Pastor a hothead that still seems like he's a rookie, despite the GP win. Still, the most experienced F1 driver ever,
Barrichello, didn't bring williams back to the front, even though he was paired to a driver whom I rate higher then Bottas;
Hulkenberg.
So after years of different drivers, including experienced drivers, different engines, different design innovations, sponsor investments, williams still ended 9th in the constructors [last if you wouldn't count the backmarkers, and if you'd include them, i'd still feel that's last].
I'm thus inclined to still have my reserves about Williams for 2014, even though i'm much more positive than i was at the end of last year. If they can repeat what they did in 2012, then they're doing ok again. last year was shameful.
"Explain the ending to F1 in football terms"
"Hamilton was beating Verstappen 7-0, then the ref decided F%$& rules, next goal wins
while also sending off 4 Hamilton players to make it more interesting"
The difference is Claire Williams has sought to build up the engineering side of the team, getting rid of elements that get in the way of decisions being made that improve the car on track (Symonds suggesting they get rid of the problematic exhaust system, car gains a bit of performance). Pat Symonds and others on the engineering side are guiding Williams in the right direction, but the results are what count. I'm cautiously optimistic that Williams can start moving back up the grid this year, a race win might happen if there is enough chaos with the reliability and Williams get lucky.
What I think we are seeing is a gradual process of Sir Frank Williams handing over more responsibility to Claire Williams, long term planning is going on. So progress wise ? Williams need to be scoring points on a regular basis, nabbing podium places where possible and pushing on. The more sponsors Williams can attract the more they have to spend on the car and engineering staff.
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