Roberts puts and end to the speculation

After several weeks of speculation regarding the future of Williams Racing driver George Russell the team via Acting Team Principal has finally confirmed that George Russell and Nicholas Latifi will continue to race for them in 2021. The original announcement regarding George and Nicholas's drives with Williams In 2021 was made by Claire Williams but since this announcement the team has new owners which raised the idea that these new owners may not go ahead with the already announced driver line-up.

The original speculation had Sergio Perez aiming to secure a drive at Williams Racing in 2021 after his departure from Racing Point.

The first time the subject of Russell's possible departure from Williams Racing was brought up with Roberts he did not do the best of jobs quelling this speculation and in some ways fuelled it.

But in interviews at this weekends Emilia Romagna Grad Prix Simon spoke on the subject of the driver speculation.

He said: “I probably caused a bit of confusion last week, I’m sorry about that.”

“We didn’t really want to comment on the driver position.

“Nothing’s changed and this is our driver line-up for this year and next year. We’re very happy with them and we look forward to working with them in a continued way.”

As for whether the Williams Team had any discussions with other drivers Roberts would not go into this.

Also at these interviews George added his views on the matter of the speculation regarding the 2021 Williams drivers.

George said: “It’s always nice to have stability, it’s never nice to hear any speculation that your job is potentially up for grabs”

“I had to do the talking on the track and as Simon says, I was confident nothing would change.”