British GP: Race of mixed fortunes for Williams Racing
By Williams Racing
July 4 2022
The 2022 British GP would see a race of mixed fortunes for the Williams Racing Team. Only one driver would complete the race with Nicholas Latifi finishing in 12th while for team-mate Alex Albon his race would end before making it past the first corner being involved in a major accident involving several cars. Alex would be spun going into the pit wall doing significant dmage to the front of his recently upgraded FW44. Very much a race of mixed fortunes as Nicholas was able to put in a good performance in the early stages of the race prior to suffering floor damage to his car. The results of the race were also disappoinitng as the team was not able to continue their assessment of the upgraded FW44.
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Williams Racing
British GP
Race Review |
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Nicholas Latifi:
"From lap
one we were always fighting an uphill battle. At the beginning I was
surprised at how much I could stay with the cars ahead but in reality,
there was a little DRS train that was keeping me there because the cars
behind were much quicker. It felt really nice to be properly racing in
the pack. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the basic pace in the end
alongside managing the car towards the end of the race. The car’s
lacking downforce compared to the others with us missing pace in the
high-speed corners, which wasn’t helped by some floor damage today. We
put up a good fight, but it wasn’t meant to be today. Frustrating in the
end but overall a positive weekend." |
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Alex Albon:
"I’m very glad that everyone else involved in the first lap
incident is okay. Thank you to all the medical staff at the track and
Coventry Hospital. It’s a shame our race ended before it began today,
but we are already fully focused on Austria. Bring on the next one." |
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance:
"Following
the incident at the start of the race, we are grateful that nobody was
seriously hurt. It was a shame that Alex suffered contact as a result of
the crash ahead of him, and that this put him out of the race after just
a few corners and before we had a chance to see how the new upgrades
were working. However, Nicholas backed-up his strong drive yesterday
with a very good race today. He showed good pace and took advantage of
opportunities that came his way, including the late safety car.
Unfortunately, he didn’t quite have the pace at the end to challenge for
the final points position, but he raced hard until the end and put up a
strong fight against faster cars. When he ran wide at T9, he did some
damage to the floor, which harmed his pace in the crucial period after
his first pit stop.
We will get Alex’s car repaired and then we’ll head to Austria with some
useful momentum and a plan to further exploit the new package. The Red
Bull Ring has some similar characteristics to Silverstone and probably
similar weather too and so we should be able to pick-up where we left
off this weekend." |
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Track: Silverstone Circuit, Great
Britain |
Lap Length: 5.891 km |
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DRIVER |
TEAM |
Time (Fastest Lap) |
Grid |
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12 |
N LATIFI |
Williams Racing |
+32.511 (1:33.286) |
10 |
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DNF |
A ALBON |
Williams Racing |
DNF |
16 |
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