Marko Hanželic
After two seasons in which they were anything but competitive, Williams returned alive last year and was in qualifying with Russell completely equivalent Haas in Alfa Romeo. The young Briton regularly qualified for Q2 on Saturday, but in the race the team failed to upgrade his good performances in the qualifiers.
Despite hoping to leave this year last place in the design championship, Williams does not want to invest large sums in the current race car. Instead team from Grove next year focuses on changing the rules, bringing an interesting new opportunity.
"2021 is a transitional year for us, we are focused on the car for the 2022 season," explains the CEO Jost capito. Williams it follows a similar path as Haaswho wants to in the upcoming race in Imoli to present the latest updates of this year’s car. The head of the team has a similar opinion, Simon Robertswhich says: “At the moment, unfortunately, we can’t think of progress to the middle of the scale. It will be great if we are eighth among the constructors. Even if we are ninth, it will be good, we should not be the last. ”
The American team will probably be the biggest competitor Williams this season, and the main goal for both of them will be to finish the season at penultimate place. With two newcomers, Nikito Mazepin in Mick Schumacher and the complete cessation of any development work on the car for the 2021 season seems to be Haas even in a slightly worse position than Williams.
I got it is similar to his colleague Steiner pri Haas publicly said that in the current FW43B no notable funds will be invested. "Because of the car for this year, we don't want to compromise on the car for the 2022 season. There's not much we can do with the current car," he says Nemec.
Motivationthat they are still achieving good results this year is great, he admits I got it. "We will fight all season and try to progress as far as possible," said the first man of the team Williams: “We know where we are. Of course, we will continue to develop things, but only those that will not affect the development of the car for the 2022 season. ”
F2022 Season XNUMX will also be groundbreaking because they are at Williams under the new leadership changed the philosophy of work. They will no longer develop the gearbox themselves, but will, similarly to Aston Martin, bought from Mercedesa, however, unlike the latter, they will still manufacture the suspension components themselves.
As Roberts says, it’s about “Pragmatic decision”, because it is Williams currently the only team in F1 to still have an aluminum gearbox. Everyone else uses it for him karbon, and for the team, the purchase of the entire drive unit will significantly simplify the development of the car. "This gives us the opportunity to use part of the team to develop other parts of the car, and at the same time we will be significantly more flexible than before," concludes Roberts.
