Marko Hanželic
After the team bought an American investment company in the middle of the season last year Dorilton Capital, is at Williams changed a lot. As he says George Russel, after the takeover, they were finally only able to focus on racing. Young British he is also excited about the arrival Josta Capita: “I really think we now have the right captain for our boat, which has been in very turbulent waters in recent years. I am convinced that he will bring the team to a much higher level and that our results will follow. ”
She's German Williams joined on request Francois Xavier Demaison, with whom they have already worked very successfully at Volkswagen, I got it however, he replaced him as technical director Paddy Lowe, who retired after the 2018 season. "But since I came to Williams, we haven't had a technical director until this year, which is very unusual, not to say crazy," he added Russell.
“In recent years, the priority has been to stay in Formula 1, which the Williams family has succeeded in the end, and which is a really big thing. They have managed to keep jobs and the team alive, and now we can also focus on developing the car, ” he adds Russell: "We now have both an executive and a technical director, which is exceptionally important, as the Formula 1 car is like a huge challenging puzzle and the technical director is like a conductor who puts the pieces together into a meaningful whole."
The first results of the changes are already visible. After two seasons in which they were anything but competitive, it was 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.
