Japanese GP: Disjointed Friday for Atlassian Williams Racing


By Williams Racing
April 4 2025

The opening day of practice for the 2025 Japanese GP would be a somewhat disjointed one for the Atlassian Williams Racing Team but even so Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon would finish 10th & 11th across both FP1 & FP2. FP1 would see both Carlos and Alex get in some good running but FP2 what with four Red Flag periods was a session that saw little meaningful running. Even so both Carlos and Alex felt that things were working in the right direction.

 
 Williams Racing Japanese GP Friday Practice Review
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Alex Albon:
"I think we need the sprinklers out! We maybe weren’t as quick as we wanted to be but today has been very disjointed. We know where we need to improve though, so we’ll do some tuning overnight. I’m feeling good in the car, I’m confident and I hope we can score some points this weekend."

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Carlos Sainz:
"An eventful Friday here in Suzuka. During FP1 we managed to test a few things on the car and do some good running. However, FP2 was very disrupted and I really couldn’t get a proper read of the things we wanted to try out, although it seemed we were working in the right direction. It’s going to be a hectic FP3 for everyone tomorrow, there’s a lot of things to try and the wind direction is going to change, so the cars may feel very different compared to today. I hope Jack is feeling well after his incident and tomorrow he can be back at it."
 
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Suzuka Circuit, Japan | 5.807km
 
Driver   FP1 FP2
C. Sainz 1:29.333 (10th) 1:28.832 (10th)
A. Albon 1:29.392 (11th) 1:29.023 (11th)
 
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