Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Russian Grand Prix Qualifying - information | Williams F1

Qualifying Notes

  • George Russell certified 14th and Nicholas Latifi nineteenth for the Russian Grand Prix
  • George reached Q2 for the sixth time this season and set his quickest time of the session with a 1:33.583
  • Nicholas clocked his only time of Q1 with a 1:35.066 
  • Dave Robson, Head of automobile performance: We had a very good day on the total nowadays and it changed into a shame that Nicholas couldn't put his lap collectively in qualifying. we have pushed the car harder every session this weekend. going in to FP3 we notion that we may have pushed issues a bit too a ways, but by qualifying we have been assured that we in reality had made good growth. The alternate of wind situations this afternoon changed the balance and braking facets a little, but the drivers and engineers have been capable of adapt to that rather rapidly as soon as the qualifying session started.

    The group did an outstanding job to supply the drivers the opportunity to put together their tyres for each and every run without having to combat with different drivers. unfortunately, the need to look after the tyres on the outlap makes keeping the brakes scorching elaborate and Nicholas opened his lap with the brakes just out of our window, which cost him e arly within the lap. George had a somewhat more convenient time with tyres and brakes and was in a position to make the most the car neatly in Q1. Having stepped forward to Q2 with only one set of recent tyres, we opted to complete our run within the quiet middle part of the session, and this worked neatly with George unhindered via different vehicles. even as we didn't get to see the final laptime from Vettel, we are able to nevertheless be chuffed that we have been genuinely in a battle with as a minimum one Ferrari.

    it is a protracted run to show 2 right here and so we might also have a chance to make some extra places early within the race. From there we will seem to make as a whole lot progress as possible and spot if we are able to once again get near the features scoring positions.

    George Russell: That was more than we might have anticipated and hoped for, so i am very chuffed. Our goal was to out qualify each Haas and Alfa this weekend and we did a extremely go od job to get ahead of them in Q1. In Q2, it was high-quality to soar ahead of Sebastian as we only had one set of tyres. The vehicle become feeling decent, i was blissful with the lap and that i believe we are searching in basically decent form for the following day.

    The final couple of weekends we now have been focusing greater on the Sunday as we have acknowledged our Saturday tempo has been first rate, however our Sunday pace has now not quite matched it. we've rebalanced our quali and race tempo here, a good way to put us in a pretty good place day after today. I believe Haas and Alfa nonetheless have the facet on us, so I believe it might be a race to pressure as short as a i can and investigate my mirrors to be certain they are not going to overhaul me.

    Nicholas Latifi: i'm upset with qualifying nowadays. The session was dictated with the aid of the sensation I had on the brakes, and from the warm-up lap I wasn't getting the chew on the brakes. I locked up and o verlooked my first lap which then places you on the back foot in your 2nd lap. We need to examine why as it was tons worse than the apply periods. tomorrow will be unique; we geared our car against the race to be extra competitive so that we're capable of battle. i'm optimistic that we might be able to circulate forwards, it is a tough tune for overtaking and to follow so a great beginning should be key. All in all, we are able to push to circulate forwards.

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