Forward of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Williams drivers Carlos Sainz and Alexander Albon said that they’re desirous to get regain the shape that they had proven forward of the Barcelona spherical.
Williams had arrived at Barcelona with low expectations as that they had anticipated their FW47 to wrestle on a circuit which has historically uncovered the weaknesses of their vehicles lately.
The qualifying session noticed Carlos Sainz get knocked out in Q1 whereas his team-mate Alexander Albon didn’t progress into the ultimate section. The race then turned out to be a troublesome afternoon for Williams.
Albon had contact initially and was compelled vast. The Thai driver didn’t solely lose a number of locations, however he was additionally compelled to pit for a brand new entrance wing. He had an extra contact in a while as he collided with Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson.
The incident resulted in one other entrance wing injury for Albon and he was additionally handed a 10-second penalty for leaving the observe and gaining a bonus. After serving his penalty, he elected to retire from the race.
His team-mate additionally had contact on the primary lap which led to entrance wing injury. Along with his injury having been a smaller one, Sainz refused to pit for a brand new wing, however he misplaced efficiency because of it.
Though he completed the race, he failed to attain any factors at his residence race the place he has at all times completed within the factors because the begin of his F1 profession.
Talking forward of this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, Albon famous that Williams are “decided to come back again preventing” after a suboptimal trope header.
“Canada is a race with a number of alternative, and I’ve some good recollections of my overtakes round right here final 12 months. The climate could be changeable however we have been performing properly in all circumstances to this point this 12 months, so we’ll be trying to capitalise on this.
“We didn’t shut the triple header in the way in which we needed, so we’re decided to come back again preventing in Montreal,” concluded the Thai driver.
His team-mate Sainz spent final weekend in his residence metropolis Madrid the place he accomplished a demo run forward of the debut race of the Madring that can happen subsequent September.
“Regardless of it being a busy few weeks with the triple header ending in Barcelona adopted by the roadshow in Madrid final Saturday, I really feel recharged and excited to move to Canada for what I hope will likely be a constructive weekend!
“Canada is at all times a enjoyable circuit to drive with many overtaking alternatives, so I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing what we are able to do with the FW47 round this circuit!
“The climate at all times performs an enormous half in Montreal with unpredictable circumstances, so we’ll take advantage of all of the alternatives we are able to and push flat out all weekend.
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