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Williams Racing Bahrain GP Qualifying Review |
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Qualifying Notes:
• Alex Albon qualified 14th and Nicholas Latifi 20th for the
season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix
• Alex progressed through to Q2, setting his fastest time, a 1:32.664,
on the soft Pirelli tyres
• Nicholas set his fastest time on his final flying lap of Q1, posting a
1:33.634 on the soft compound tyre |
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Nicholas Latifi:
"It's
definitely not what we expected from Qualifying. There’s clearly been a
lack of pace all weekend. Each session we’ve actually been learning
quite a lot, but for some reason it’s felt like we’ve been going
backwards as the car felt the best in FP1, which is strange for a track
like this especially. I know why I was so far off - the answer is clear
- the question is why we couldn’t make the tyres work the way we need
them to. It’s not ideal, but the race is tomorrow and we’ve got a lot to
analyse before then to further our learning." |
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Alex Albon:
"We put it all on the table today and the result was more than we
expected, so it’s a pretty special one. The car gives me a lot of
confidence, as do the team, which really enabled me to push and get the
most out of Qualifying. Coming into the session, I was expecting similar
struggles to those we experienced in testing, but the car felt alive,
quick and agile, so I’m going into Sunday feeling positive." |
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance:
"We have mixed feelings after qualifying today. We expected it to be
difficult even though we have made some steady progress over the last
couple of days. In Free Practice this morning we got a good
understanding of what Alex is looking for from the tyres and we were to
able apply that successfully in Qualifying. Although we set out to
achieve something similar with Nicholas, the difficulties of a busy
track in Q1 made this difficult to achieve.
We understand where the raw pace of the car is, and we know that we need
to work on that quite quickly. However, we also have a good idea of how
to make the most of what we have and today that allowed Alex to beat
several faster cars. There are challenges to overcome, but we are
looking forward to the race tomorrow knowing that there will likely be
opportunities to outperform the car." |
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