German GP: Williams F1 Race Review
By Williams F1 Team
July 7 2013
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Race Notes • Pastor Maldonado finished 15th with Valtteri Bottas 16th in today’s German Grand Prix. • Both cars opted to start on the medium tyres and showed good pace throughout the race. • Unfortunately we lost time in our pit stops which cost us positions and a potential point today. • There is still work to be done to ensure we are fighting for points in every race. |
Pastor Maldonado:
 "It was a good race for us today as we put everything together and we were on for some points. It’s disappointing to finish where we did today after the problem with the pitstops but we have to look at the positives and move forward from this." |
Valtteri Bottas:  "We
didn’t get a good start today as we had a few problems getting away from
the line. We also lost some time in both pitstops so we need to work out
what happened there. The race pace was better than we had seen
previously this weekend which meant that we could have been challenging
for points, but unfortunately it wasn’t to be."
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Mike Coughlan, Technical
Director: "We
started the race on medium tyres, and as most of the cars around us
started on softs we had the opportunity to run out of sync and make up
some positions. We were targeting a two-stop strategy for both drivers
which we made work. Pitting before the safety car also worked to our
advantage. The drivers drove a clean race and managed the tyres well but
we lost a lot of time in our pitstops. We had a problem getting the
front-right tyres off both cars and also a problem on the left-rear
during Valtteri’s final stop, which resulted in the drivers not being
able to finish in the positions they deserved. We are now investigating
what happened to make sure we can fix this for the future. Overall, our
strategy, the higher track temperatures and our tyre management enabled
us to be in a position to compete for the top ten." |
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Laurent Debout, Renault
Sport F1 team support leader: "We were a lot more competitive in the race than we have been in previous Grands Prix and were fighting for points. It was a shame to lose time in the pitstops, but there are definite positives we can take away; we’ve made a step forward on the race pace, which is what counts." |
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Track Nürburgring Circuit,
Germany |
Weather Warm and dry | |||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Time (Fastest Lap) |
Grid |
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1 |
S Vettel | Red Bull | 1:41:14.711 (1:34.164, 5th) |
2 |
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2 |
K Raikkonen | Lotus |
+ 1.008 (1:33.767, 2nd) |
4 |
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3 |
S Grosjean | Lotus |
+ 5.830 (1:34.576, 10th) |
6 |
| 15 |
P MALDONADO FW35-02 R275466 |
Williams F1 Team | + 61.929 (1:34.293, 9th) | 18 |
| 16 |
V BOTTAS FW35-01 R275458 |
Williams F1 Team | + 1 lap (1:33.972, 3rd) | 17 |
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German GP: Williams F1 Race Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 07/07/2013 16:25
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