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Williams Racing Bahrain GP Friday
Practice Review |
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Nicholas Latifi:
"It is nice to be back driving in some warm weather, but it was a tricky
day. This
track is notoriously difficult on the tyres, with very high degradation.
FP1 isn’t the most representative session, the ones that matter are in
the evening time, so FP2 was a bit more important. We got extra running
with the new 2021 tyres which was good to get a feel on them. We have
some things to sort out, we need to fine tune the balance on the low
fuel, and high fuel was very disruptive with the red flags. It is
clearly going to be difficult to manage those tyres. The tyre
degradation and race management has been my stronger suit this year and
allowed me to win the feature race in F2 here last year. Hopefully that
plays to our strengths, but we still have a lot to improve before we can
be confident about that." |
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George Russell:
"It was nice to get back out on track today under the lights as it is
always pretty
spectacular, so I enjoyed it. It hurt us slightly missing FP1, as it
puts you on the back foot and then with those red flags from Alex’s
crash and the appearance from the dog, it didn’t make it the easiest
session. It affected my low fuel run on the soft tyre as I was on the
out-lap both times the session got red flagged. However, we have been in
this position before and we know what to do. It will be a long evening
into the early hours of tomorrow, and then wake up tomorrow and go and
have some fun. Let’s see what we can do." |
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Roy NIssany:
"It was a very positive session once again, and a challenging one in
comparison to my last FP1 outing at Monza. We have stepped up in terms
of development and it feels great as
always to be working with the team, to be in the car and a part of the
progress that Williams is making. It is an incredible experience putting
down the results, and I am looking forward to more action at the test in
Abu Dhabi." |
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer:
"Although there was some overnight and morning rain, we were able to
complete the programmes as intended. Roy did an excellent job and
completed all of his test items, providing some very useful feedback,
including on the new 2021 Pirelli tyres. FP2 was fully dry but
interrupted by several red flags, which disrupted our low fuel running
and delayed the high fuel runs. Nonetheless, we were able to gather some
useful tyre data, which will
help guide the car set-ups for the rest of this weekend and also into
next year.
The weather tomorrow looks similar to today and so FP3 may be more
valuable than it traditionally is at the events where we race in the
evenings. We will wait and see how hot the track is tomorrow afternoon
before finalising the FP3 run plan. We have got a lot of work to get
through tonight, but we are confident that we can improve the
performance of the car as a result and can produce useful test
programmes to suit whatever weather conditions that we encounter." |
