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A15 said:
A great job by both driver to bring the cars home in one piece. A shame Russell spun. Great job by Kubica, his first wet single seater race since 2010. Alfa's 30 second penalty means Kubica scores his first point this year.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.alfa-ro...
It will probably be the first and only point for Williams (hopefully not). I had hoped for the these "German" upgrades but this team needs a really solid rebuilding.https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.alfa-ro...
Lebo44 said:
It will probably be the first and only point for Williams (hopefully not). I had hoped for the these "German" upgrades but this team needs a really solid rebuilding.
You may be right. Still, I'll take this for now. Better than seeingWilliams 0 points at the end of the season.
37chevy said:
All the Russell v Kubica stuff aside, more importantly does this mean more money coming to the Williams from the FIA and reduced travel costs?
https://www.racefans.net/2019/03/03/formula-1-team... gives some pointers.Car-Matt said:
A great reward for their hard work on the turnaround, luck or not, they had their fare share of bad luck, hope this bit of good luck
Is a morale booster for the factory
I pray they don't see it that way, and that Claire isn't silly enough to use this as evidence of hard work paying off. It's crystal clear it's a fluke point and no other TP would do anything other than shrug it off as a bit of luck.Is a morale booster for the factory
This point is totally irrelevant. Their reward for hard work must come from competitiveness on track - nothing else really matters.
TheDeuce said:
Car-Matt said:
A great reward for their hard work on the turnaround, luck or not, they had their fare share of bad luck, hope this bit of good luck
Is a morale booster for the factory
I pray they don't see it that way, and that Claire isn't silly enough to use this as evidence of hard work paying off. It's crystal clear it's a fluke point and no other TP would do anything other than shrug it off as a bit of luck.Is a morale booster for the factory
This point is totally irrelevant. Their reward for hard work must come from competitiveness on track - nothing else really matters.
I'd say they definitely have something to be proud of from this race, which is different to telling themselves all is rosey.
TheDeuce said:
Car-Matt said:
A great reward for their hard work on the turnaround, luck or not, they had their fare share of bad luck, hope this bit of good luck
Is a morale booster for the factory
I pray they don't see it that way, and that Claire isn't silly enough to use this as evidence of hard work paying off. It's crystal clear it's a fluke point and no other TP would do anything other than shrug it off as a bit of luck.Is a morale booster for the factory
This point is totally irrelevant. Their reward for hard work must come from competitiveness on track - nothing else really matters.
Sure, the weather played a part, but even in practice the gap between them and the next slowest was down considerably. So there is progress regardless of the point by default.
TheDeuce said:
Car-Matt said:
A great reward for their hard work on the turnaround, luck or not, they had their fare share of bad luck, hope this bit of good luck
Is a morale booster for the factory
I pray they don't see it that way, and that Claire isn't silly enough to use this as evidence of hard work paying off. It's crystal clear it's a fluke point and no other TP would do anything other than shrug it off as a bit of luck.Is a morale booster for the factory
This point is totally irrelevant. Their reward for hard work must come from competitiveness on track - nothing else really matters.
Car-Matt said:
TheDeuce said:
Car-Matt said:
A great reward for their hard work on the turnaround, luck or not, they had their fare share of bad luck, hope this bit of good luck
Is a morale booster for the factory
I pray they don't see it that way, and that Claire isn't silly enough to use this as evidence of hard work paying off. It's crystal clear it's a fluke point and no other TP would do anything other than shrug it off as a bit of luck.Is a morale booster for the factory
This point is totally irrelevant. Their reward for hard work must come from competitiveness on track - nothing else really matters.
Anyway, my point was that I'd hate to see this point (nice as it is to have) PR spun into some sort of proof of improvement at Williams. I think that's fair enough. It's fine if you disagree with that sentiment though
This popped up on Reddit, Kubica's car has a bit of wheel wobble and is pulling to the left slightly on apparently brand new tyres (ie no flat spots):
https://streamable.com/aitmy
Compared to Kimi's car which is solid as a rock:
https://youtu.be/JkCZAzZ1hqk
https://streamable.com/aitmy
Compared to Kimi's car which is solid as a rock:
https://youtu.be/JkCZAzZ1hqk
Super weekend for Wiliams, putting aside the fact that a draggy car has less effect here then they were at least able to 'go racing' with one car in qualy and race. GR looks more like the real deal every weekend, RK less and less so. Still, nice to see some tangible progress, ie didn't qualify last on merit, didnt finish last on merit.
For those interested, the quali laps side by side: https://streamable.com/xygwg
I’d love to see Williams swap the engineers around for a weekend to see if that made any difference; it is hard to believe from that video that the two cars are optimised as well as each other.
That said perhaps Robert really has lost the feeling for the edge.
I’d love to see Williams swap the engineers around for a weekend to see if that made any difference; it is hard to believe from that video that the two cars are optimised as well as each other.
That said perhaps Robert really has lost the feeling for the edge.
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