ROKiT Williams Barcelona Test 28:02:2020 Day Three
By Williams Racing
February 29 2020
The ROKiT Williams Team would complete their pre-season testing with George Russell in the car for the final day. It would follow a similar pattern to the of Nicholas Latifi the previous day with performance runs in the morning and race simulations in the afternoon. The team would pleased with their six days of testing despite losing time with some engine issues. Now the team will continue to work in the time leading up to the first race in Melbourne.
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Drivers: George Russell Claire Williams, Deputy Team Principal: We have had a very busy time in Barcelona. Everyone in the team, here and at the factory, has done a fantastic job to ensure we managed to complete the majority of our planned programme. Unfortunately, some of our run plans were impacted by the number of engine reliability issues that materialised over the six days, and which primarily affected Nicholas's running, but we have every confidence that Mercedes HPP will resolve these prior to actually racing. It’s still early days, but the car certainly looks better than last year’s and that’s what we wanted to demonstrate, that we can make progress. We now have some time to go through all the data we’ve gathered in order to make sure we have the optimum configuration going into Melbourne. We will continue to fight hard to bring continual improvement to the car and look forward to seeing it take to the track in Australia. Dave Robson, Senior Race
Engineer: Conditions for the final day of this season’s winter testing
were good with cool calm conditions this morning and light cloud cover
during the afternoon. Following the rain yesterday morning, the track seemed
to have recovered fully to be in very good condition. George was back in the
car today and completed a programme like that of Nicholas yesterday.
Performance running in the morning featured the softer compounds as we
looked to finalise our setup testing. During the lunch break we conducted a
full grid simulation before going into some longer high fuel runs using the
harder compounds from the 2020 range. Like Nicholas yesterday, George
enjoyed a productive day, refining his car setup and reacquainting himself
with the vagaries of race tyre management. Overall, we have had a good
winter testing period and have made the most of the six days available in
this newly compressed format. We have completed in excess of 100 laps on all
but one of the days, which has allowed us to complete almost everything that
we intended. George Russell: It was a productive day and we got in
almost all the laps we wanted to. We had a good morning doing qualifying
simulations and managed a race simulation in the afternoon. We got plenty of
laps on the board and it was good preparation ahead of Australia. No doubt
we are in a better position than last year, but we’re not going to get
carried away. I am optimistic that we can go to Melbourne and be in the
fight, but until we get there we won’t know for sure. From both myself and
everyone at the team, we are going to go there and do our best to get
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Pos. Driver Team Best Time Total Laps 1. V. Bottas Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team 1:16.196 79 2. M. Verstappen Aston Martin Red Bull Racing 1:16.269 45 3. D. Ricciardo Renault F1 Team 1:16.276 65 4. C. Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow 1:16.360 181 5. L. Hamilton Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team 1:16.410 90 6. E. Ocon Renault F1 Team 1:16.433 75 7. S. Perez BWT Racing Point Formula One Team 1:16.634 154 8. C. Sainz McLaren F1 Team 1:16.820 163 9. G. Russell ROKiT Williams Racing 1:16.871 146 10. D. Kvyat Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda 1:16.914 160 11. R. Grosjean Haas F1 Team 1:17.037 86 12. K. Raikkonen Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN 1:17.415 115 13. K. Magnussen Haas F1 Team 1:17.495 29 14. A. Albon Aston Martin Red Bull Racing 1:17.803 59 |
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The point is they do not have a leader or the brain power to get them back up where they belong.
We failed with Paddy but we STILL NEED A BIG CHANGE and get a quality TD and someone
to sit along side Claire and help guide he team. a partnership like Frank and Patrick.
We should at least see George have a few battles with a few other teams this year.
I am not sure George is the best at starting on the grid no idea about Nich.
also i am still not convinced the race pace of the car is that consistent yet or
the best it could be, it seems to use the tires a bit more than it should but that should get better?
As i said in the other thread if we could of pinched another .5 of a second out of this design we would of been right in the mix for some good races, good action and good points this year.
We did however just about match my 1:16:5 minimum target.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2020:02:29:11:41:57 by GPL.