Forward of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Williams drivers Carlos Sainz and Alexander Albon acknowledged that they’re wanting to get regain the shape that they had proven forward of the Barcelona spherical.
Williams had arrived at Barcelona with low expectations as that they had anticipated their FW47 to wrestle on a circuit which has historically uncovered the weaknesses of their automobiles in recent times.
The qualifying session noticed Carlos Sainz get knocked out in Q1 whereas his team-mate Alexander Albon did not progress into the ultimate phase. The race then turned out to be a troublesome afternoon for Williams.
Albon had contact initially and was pressured broad. The Thai driver didn’t solely lose a number of locations, however he was additionally pressured to pit for a brand new entrance wing. He had an extra contact in a while as he collided with Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson.
The incident resulted in one other entrance wing harm for Albon and he was additionally handed a 10-second penalty for leaving the monitor and gaining a bonus. After serving his penalty, he elected to retire from the race.
His team-mate additionally had contact on the primary lap which led to entrance wing harm. Along with his harm having been a smaller one, Sainz refused to pit for a brand new wing, however he misplaced efficiency because of it.
Though he completed the race, he failed to attain any factors at his dwelling race the place he has all the time completed within the factors because the begin of his F1 profession.
Talking forward of this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, Albon famous that Williams are “decided to return again combating” after a suboptimal trope header.
“Canada is a race with plenty of alternative, and I’ve some good reminiscences of my overtakes round right here final yr. The climate might be changeable however we have been performing effectively in all situations to this point this yr, so we’ll be trying to capitalise on this.
“We didn’t shut the triple header in the best way we wished, so we’re decided to return again combating in Montreal,” concluded the Thai driver.
His team-mate Sainz spent final weekend in his dwelling metropolis Madrid the place he accomplished a demo run forward of the debut race of the Madring that may happen subsequent September.
“Regardless of it being a busy few weeks with the triple header ending in Barcelona adopted by the roadshow in Madrid final Saturday, I really feel recharged and excited to move to Canada for what I hope can be a constructive weekend!
“Canada is all the time a enjoyable circuit to drive with many overtaking alternatives, so I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing what we will do with the FW47 round this circuit!
“The climate all the time performs an enormous half in Montreal with unpredictable situations, so we’ll benefit from all of the alternatives we will and push flat out all weekend.
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