Williams Team Reactions Bahrain Grand Prix
By Williams F1 Team
April 17 2007
| Reactions: Bahrain GP Race |
| The AT&T Williams team brought both cars home at the Bahrain Grand Prix, with neither experiencing any technical problems. Nico Rosberg and Alex Wurz crossed the line in the same positions from which they started the race, 10th and 11th respectively, but the team’s efforts weren’t rewarded with points today. Formula One will now break from racing for four weeks before the European season starts in Spain on 13th May. In preparation for the race, AT&T Williams will spend three valuable days testing at the Barcelona track in two weeks’ time. |
Nico Rosberg:  "Not
a good race today, it was a bit difficult for me. I’ve been struggling
with the brakes this weekend. On such a hard braking circuit, it was
difficult to overtake because I didn’t have a feel for them. Also, every
time I’d try to overtake, I’d go off-line and get dirt on the tyres. It
really surprised me how long it took for them to get back in shape; it
was taking one, even one and a half, laps. It was a struggle to be
fighting all the time and many people around me were making mistakes
again and again. Not easy. We now have more than three weeks before the
next race and we must work hard to get back on top of the midfield as we
were in Malaysia, because we are very close to the top and just need to
find those important few tenths to stay ahead and consistently score
points."
|
Alex Wurz:  "It
was difficult today. I was struggling with the grip and oversteer and
could not attack the cars in front, even when they were slower than me.
My car had the speed and our strategy was also ok, but the problem was I
could not try to overtake since I was sliding around all the time coming
out of the corners because of the poor traction. It’s a pity as today I
was hoping to get into the points. Unfortunately, neither of us did."
|
Sam Michael
Technical Director WilliamsF1 "We
finished where we qualified so not really what we wanted out of the
afternoon. We didn’t have the best starts and it was hard to make any
progress through the traffic as there are a lot of cars out there all
very close in terms of performance. It was therefore quite difficult to
make any headway using strategy, or by the drivers overtaking on the
track. Both cars were reliable though and finished the race with no
problems. We’ll now look ahead to the next Grand Prix in Europe and will
spend the ensuing few weeks’ getting to get some more performance out of
the FW29."
|
|
SAKHIR CIRCUIT, BAHRAIN |
CLEAR AND SUNNY | |||
|
POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Time (Fastest Lap) |
Grid |
|
1 |
F Massa |
Ferrari |
1:33:27.515 (1.34.067, 1st ) |
1 |
|
2 |
L Hamilton |
McLaren Mercedes |
+2.360 (1.34.270, 2nd) |
2 |
|
3 |
K Raikkonen |
Ferrari |
+10.839 (1.34.357, 3rd) |
3 |
|
10 |
N ROSBERG |
AT&T Williams |
+89.916 (1.35.556,11st) |
10 |
|
11 |
A WURZ |
AT&T Williams |
+1 LAP (1.35.992, 16th) |
11 |
 |