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Williams Racing Emilia Romagna GP Race Review |
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Race Notes
• Nicholas Latifi finished 11th in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, whilst
George Russell unfortunately crashed out of the race under the safety
car
• George started 13th, with Nicholas lining up 19th, both on the medium
compound tyre
• Nicholas ran a one-stop race, pitting on lap 34 for the hard Pirelli
tyre
• After stopping on lap 11 for the hard compound tyre, George was
running P10 before his race came to an abrupt halt
• Congratulations meanwhile goes to the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team
who secured a record-breaking seventh Constructors' Championship title
in a row. |
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Nicholas Latifi:
"It was a strong race for me today, especially off the back of a really
tough weekend in Portugal. We ran really long in the first stint aiming
to have a tyre life advantage at the end. It seemed that the prime tyre
was not a great race tyre in terms of how much grip it was giving, and I
didn’t really feel any quicker on it. I hoped to capitalise on the
second stint but my restart after the safety car was poor. Antonio
(Giovinazzi) made a mistake in the chicane on the last lap which gave me
DRS. We seemed to have a pretty decent straight-line speed advantage
compared to the Alfa Romeos this weekend, so with one more lap maybe I
could have got past him for 10th. It is a bit disappointing, but the
overall pace today was encouraging." |
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George Russell:
"I was pushing as hard as I could from lap one, the most aggressive I
have ever been. I knew that with the guys behind me on the new tyres and
myself on the old tyres, I had to be super aggressive to be in with the
chance of getting a point. I came out of the corner and the tyres were
too cold and I just lost the car, and I was already in the wall. It is
absolutely gutting, and I am really sorry to the team. We were having an
amazing race up until then, we were pushing really hard every lap and
the pace was good. There are no excuses, I have to go away and learn
from this and come back stronger next time." |
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer:
"We need to get home and unpick what happened today. After a good
performance yesterday and a decent first lap, we were well placed. We
opted to pit George early to attack the cars ahead and this allowed us
to undercut Ocon. With Nicholas, we decided to leave him on a longer
stint on the Medium tyre whilst we allowed the race to unfold and waited
for an opportunity. Once Perez got close, we brought him in before we
lost time. The late safety car caused some chaos in the final laps,
bunching the pack back up and allowing several cars to make cheap
pitstops for fresh tyres. George stayed out and held track position but
unfortunately lost control of the car whilst trying to keep his tyres
hot. This extended the safety car period further and once Albon went
off, elevated Nicholas to his third 11th place finish of the season. He
came very close to beating Giovanazzi for the final point scoring
position whilst also mounting a robust defence with the Haas.
Unfortunately, the race was one lap too short for Nicholas to score the
final point.
Overall, we are very disappointed with the result as we worked extremely
well and effectively
throughout this weekend and have shown good pace in both qualifying and
race trim. Considering
how much track time Nicholas lost on Saturday morning, he has had an
excellent weekend and
showed very good pace and race-craft today. George will be very
disappointed with today’s result, but he had good pace and was able to
race competitively with the midfield for much of the race. It has been a
tiring but rewarding couple of weeks during which we have raced at some
superb venues. We will now head home, regroup and prepare for the final
races of the season." |
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