Bojan Vrbnjak
Instead of wondering about work practices, they were at Williams decided to stop and start all the machinery again, instead of continuing on the old tracks that traditionally led the team to the start of the caravan Formula 1. According to the team boss Claire Williams, have returned to the principles in certain areas.
Williams at the same time experiencing the second horrific year in a row. After they are in season 2018 fell to last place in the championship, they are even significantly further than the rest of the field this year. The new race car was completed too late and as a result they lost some of the valuable winter testing, so Williams he drives far in the background most of the first half of the season. Only in the last race before the summer break on Hungaroring, they managed to keep up with their direct competitors for the first time.
To get out of these rails, prand Williams decided behind the scenes to give up the car's performance in the short term and better prepare for the future. “The biggest challenge is to be able to continue on the current path or to stop the machine efficiently to reconfigure and restart it,”Is for colleagues from Motorsport-Total.com said Adam Carter, chief racing engineer on the team Williams. However, there is a problem with this because the competitors are constantly improving. That they are currently withdrawing from this competition with rivals was, she said Carter a very difficult decision.
Their racer George Russell he describes it as two steps back to take three steps forward. On Hungary we were able to notice progress for the first time when a young Briton even struggled to advance to the second part (Q2) qualifications. A week earlier, however, Williams had won his own in Germany - albeit with a great deal of luck first point this year’s championship. Dave Robson, chief engineer, describes Hungary as a big step and part of continuous improvement. “It was a certificate to work in our factory and here on the track.”Otherwise, this does not mean that they have already been rehabilitated, now they have to see what will happen from It connects forward. “But progress is here,Robson added.
Nevertheless, Williams will most likely take last place this season, as the Haas team, which is ahead of them in ninth place, already has 26 points on their account. "We still have a long way to go to get where we want to go. It’s like everywhere in the industry: you design, you develop, you compare, you shape, you develop, you compare… and that builds your confidence for the path and direction, ”says Carter, adding,“ It doesn’t matter how long we went down that path. Answer you a few questions and on the other hand ask some new ones. You set a strategy for this path and assess your progress. And then you change your strategy because the environment has changed. ”
