Williams, improvements to react in Silverstone: key challenge in sprint weekend

He F1 British Grand Prix It is not only important sentimentally for Williams, since it is the home GP.to. It is also because the Grove team will present a package of improvements to its car to take a more than necessary step forward. after the poor performance shown by the car in Barcelona and Austria.

This Friday, Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon will test a new nose on the trackalso less heavy (to continue lightening a very overweight car), and other aerodynamic changes and tweaks, such as the floor of the car. This is an evolution in which Sainz showed faith to return to a positive path after two races that have been a double bucket of cold water for the whole.

“Positive about what will happen at Silverstone? Let’s not fool ourselves, the performance we have now is positive, which is very poor. Qpositive because this weekend I have not been comfortable with the car and suddenly I have changed a couple of things before the qualy and now another a little before the race that have made me go at least how I was doing in Barcelona and in the previous races, that at least I was comfortable with the little performance that there is, and at least I am calm with that,” said the Madrid native in Austria.

“I hope this is the last weekend of the very bad ones, in which we have had everything, because in the end there is no reliability, no pace, no points car. So we have to wait to see if things improve at Silverstone. Within all the negative that this start of the season has been, today I am a little more positive. But we need to change things and improve,” Carlos added on ‘DAZN and ‘ESPN’ last week.

Just one session to try out the new parts

Williams will face a great challenge this weekend in which Carlos will be able to continue measuring how prepared his team is for his goal of joining the group of the best teams in a few years. And Williams accepts the challenge of presenting improvements, analyzing them and understanding them in a weekend in which they will only have one hour of free practice. before the start of the real fire, since after FP1 the sprint classification will be held on Friday afternoon. Seeing how the team operates in that moment of maximum pressure will also be crucial to understand if they should also improve in that aspect.

This way, Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon They will only have one session to understand how to adjust the car for the sprint classification and subsequent short race of the weekend, which in turn will serve to learn for the main classification on Saturday afternoon.

These improvements come at a crucial time for Williams. After a much worse start to the season than expected due to the production problems they had with their car in winter, Williams finally debuted the car they wanted to start the season with months later, in Miami.. That meant a step forward: from fighting to get into Q2, to aspiring to the points with a Carlos Sainz Personally very fast, whatever weapons he had, capable of squeezing out the car they gave him from the initial appointment on the calendar.

However, since the Miami event things have been changing and Williams’ rivals have responded to this improvement with other evolutions and in Barcelona and Austria, the blue team was far from the pointswithout options, at the back of the middle zone. Thus, the British team needs to react, starting with this new nose and the aerodynamic tweaks that the car presents in Silverstone.