Bojan Vrbnjak
He is also among those who believe in the boy from the very beginning Pat symonds, formerly technical director at Williams, but today responsible for the technical side of F1 competition. Williams is, of course, light years away from the fight for the world title this season, a Russell despite showing zero on his points account, he showed significantly more than his more experienced Polish teammate.
Twenty-one years old from King's Lynna in the east of England, who celebrated convincingly in the championship last year Formula 2, landed in Williams with a transfer to a completely different world, not only because it is F1, but also because of the problems that the traditional team faced at the beginning of this season and which made the car FW42 completely uncompetitive. In addition, he said goodbye to the team Paddy lowe, who largely designed this year’s race car.
Despite the almost catastrophic situation, Russell has shown his lavish talent in many cases, especially when he qualified for the Hungarian GP Q2 escaped just by a hair, a result that brought the team boss to tears of joy Claire Williams.
Williams believes that Russell will one day become a world champion and this opinion is joined by Symonds, whose words carry a lot of weight. Last but not least, he had type champions under his wing Michael Schumacher in Fernando Alonso.
“I saw him race in all possible circumstances, from complete dominance in the race, to controlling it, breaking through from the background, in dry and wet weather and even when things broke down and he always did his job properly. That's why I believe in this guy, " said Symonds, adding: "Last season's F2 was really phenomenal."
Williams has shown signs of life in the last two races, which is a good prospect for the young Briton before the second part of the season, which continues with GP of Belgium v Spa-Francorchamps.
