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Williams Racing Bahrain GP Qualifying Review |
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Qualifying Notes:
• George Russell qualified 14th and Nicholas Latifi 20th for the Bahrain
Grand Prix
• George secured yet another Q2 appearance, his ninth of the season so
far, before posting
a 1:31.218 on his only timed lap of the second session on a set of the
used soft tyres
• Nicholas’ fastest lap of the session, a 1:30.182, was set on his last
attempt in Q1 |
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Nicholas Latifi:
"I was
pretty pleased with my lap, but there was a big gap to George so it
shows that the potential of the car is there. There are a few set-up
differences between us as we went in
slightly different directions, so that could account for some of the
time difference. We need to look into it and see what we could have done
better. Ultimately in the race tomorrow the tyre degradation is going to
play the biggest factor in the result. We will try and get on top of
that, manage that well and have a good strategy." |
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George Russell:
"It was a very good session and I am happy to have qualified P14.
It was amazing to do a good lap and get into Q2, particularly having
missed FP1 and then had tricky sessions in FP2 and FP3. That was all we
could hope for as the midfield is too far ahead but to outqualify the
Haas and the Alfa, and to capitalise on the issue Carlos [Sainz] had was
great. I was on a used tyre
for Q2, as we wanted to retain two fresh sets of the medium tyre for
tomorrow. The race will be
difficult, but we will try our best and do everything we can." |
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer:
"George drove very well and made good use of his three new tyres in Q1
to put in a great lap at the end of the session. The car was behaving
well in the cooler conditions of the evening session and we were able to
get the tyres into their window on the outlap. Unfortunately, Nicholas
wasn’t quite able to extract as much from the car today, which is a
shame as he was very close to beating both Haas cars. Tomorrow will be a
very different prospect with tyre management being key. Hopefully the
changes that we made to the car since Friday will help us and we can
have a strong race with both cars." |
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