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The Williams F1 Team have today confirmed that Paddy Lowe, its former technical chief will leave the team after having been made inactive several months ago.
He's been busy, auditing and talking to people in all depts, gathering data. Looks like he's preparing to take TD position.
It looks like the most frustrating problem for drivers seems to be that their cars tend to behave differently each time they take it out of the garage. Both reported that they could go a bit faster, given the car behaved a bit more predictably and repeatably.
the gap becoming smaller might be an indication of Robert getting faster, Russel getting slower, and most of all their cars more less equalizing. Or any combination of those. They can't be really compared unfortunatelly at the moment, as they've never driven in comparable conditions. From what has been told about their cars earlier, Russel should be 0.6-0.9s faster had both drivers extracted maximum. Maybe now the difference is not as big. That said, I think George is doing really, really well for his age and quite frankly could give few regular drivers a run for their money.
There probably comes a point when a driver realises no matter how much he puts into it, he is never going to catch the car infront and only puts in enough to keep the car behind therenetoperek wrote: ↑14 Apr 2019, 11:24the gap becoming smaller might be an indication of Robert getting faster, Russel getting slower, and most of all their cars more less equalizing. Or any combination of those. They can't be really compared unfortunatelly at the moment, as they've never driven in comparable conditions. From what has been told about their cars earlier, Russel should be 0.6-0.9s faster had both drivers extracted maximum. Maybe now the difference is not as big. That said, I think George is doing really, really well for his age and quite frankly could give few regular drivers a run for their money.
During this race I saw how the gap between both was increased and reduced quite strangedly. I mean, there was a moment where Robert was 30 seconds behind, then like 3-4 laps before the end he was only 3 seconds behind and suddenly the gap was increased till almost 14-15 seconds. Why?Big Tea wrote: ↑14 Apr 2019, 20:26There probably comes a point when a driver realises no matter how much he puts into it, he is never going to catch the car infront and only puts in enough to keep the car behind therenetoperek wrote: ↑14 Apr 2019, 11:24the gap becoming smaller might be an indication of Robert getting faster, Russel getting slower, and most of all their cars more less equalizing. Or any combination of those. They can't be really compared unfortunatelly at the moment, as they've never driven in comparable conditions. From what has been told about their cars earlier, Russel should be 0.6-0.9s faster had both drivers extracted maximum. Maybe now the difference is not as big. That said, I think George is doing really, really well for his age and quite frankly could give few regular drivers a run for their money.
Russell boxed for new tires on lap 50.Vasconia wrote: ↑15 Apr 2019, 10:02During this race I saw how the gap between both was increased and reduced quite strangedly. I mean, there was a moment where Robert was 30 seconds behind, then like 3-4 laps before the end he was only 3 seconds behind and suddenly the gap was increased till almost 14-15 seconds. Why?Big Tea wrote: ↑14 Apr 2019, 20:26There probably comes a point when a driver realises no matter how much he puts into it, he is never going to catch the car infront and only puts in enough to keep the car behind therenetoperek wrote: ↑14 Apr 2019, 11:24
the gap becoming smaller might be an indication of Robert getting faster, Russel getting slower, and most of all their cars more less equalizing. Or any combination of those. They can't be really compared unfortunatelly at the moment, as they've never driven in comparable conditions. From what has been told about their cars earlier, Russel should be 0.6-0.9s faster had both drivers extracted maximum. Maybe now the difference is not as big. That said, I think George is doing really, really well for his age and quite frankly could give few regular drivers a run for their money.
Actually, at some point Williams switched into test session mode. They kept Robert like 12s in pits, adjusting stuff to check different aero settingsRaleigh wrote: ↑15 Apr 2019, 10:12Russell boxed for new tires on lap 50.Vasconia wrote: ↑15 Apr 2019, 10:02During this race I saw how the gap between both was increased and reduced quite strangedly. I mean, there was a moment where Robert was 30 seconds behind, then like 3-4 laps before the end he was only 3 seconds behind and suddenly the gap was increased till almost 14-15 seconds. Why?
On Roberts first stint Williams also checked how long can You drive Mediums on the very worst car on the grid. Apparently they've had enough once Robert hit 1:48 barrier, but at least got longest stint on Mediums award 
They had nothing to gain or lose, as there's not much chance they won't finish last. They can't even race each other currently.The fact that a driver has felt the need to do a PowerPoint presentation for himself does not sit well with me at all.
How do you lose over a second with an improved Mercedes in the back? How is that even possible?
Williams is a ludicrously political organisation. Only Head can come in there and do anything with Claire. Minus the name, Head is Williams.Unc1eM0nty wrote: ↑07 Apr 2019, 10:48I was wondering what Head can bring to the party, F1 organisations and technology have moved on since his day, from a pure technical point of view I don't think he had much to offer.
