Alex Albon says Williams suffered a “self-fulfilling injury” with the early season timesaving but weight-adding measures on its 2024 Formula 1 car, which led to additional crash damage. The British team’s 2024 season was blighted by crashes from start to finish, with its FW46 car also starting the year over the weight limit of 798kg … Read more
Williams driver Alex Albon thinks Franco Colapinto’s tough final Formula 1 races with the squad should not overshadow the excellent results the Argentinian produced. Colapinto’s impressive early races since stepping in for Logan Sargeant in Monza turned heads in the paddock, and they also yielded Williams five important points over three race weekends, which looked … Read more
Franco Colapinto will compete in the final two grands prix of the 2024 Formula 1 season with Williams’s old front suspension design, as a result of his Las Vegas qualifying crash. Colapinto’s heavy shunt in Q2 last weekend means Williams has been forced to replace the damaged front suspension parts of his car with the … Read more
SpaceX capsule Dragon approaches the ISS (Photo: AP) After months of uncertainty, two astronauts stuck aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since June finally received their return transport, thanks to the arrival of a SpaceX capsule on Sunday, as per the Associated Press.SpaceX launched the rescue mission on Saturday, carrying two astronauts and leaving two … Read more
The management of the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos (CMUL) has confirmed the death of a 300-level student identified as Williams. The provost of the college, David Oke, a professor, told PREMIUM TIMES Sunday evening that the cause of death was still unknown, but suspected that it might be related to suicide, … Read more
Verstappen will start ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez and McLaren’s Lando Norris after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3. Japanese Grand Prix grid: Verstappen on pole from Perez Read Also: What happened in Japanese … Read more
The Melbourne race turned out to a huge chance for F1’s bottom five teams, who would normally be finishing 11th at best on pace. Between the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia only Haas had managed to score a single point in Jeddah. But after the retirements for Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and both Mercedes … Read more
The ever-struggling Williams Racing organized the builds of its Formula 1 cars using an Excel spreadsheet until an intensive transition in the lead-up to the 2024 season. Team principal James Vowles revealed this archaic organizational system in an interview with The Race. The anecdote is emblematic of how far Williams has fallen behind Grand Prix … Read more
Last year’s FW45, which Albon guided to eight points finishes as the team climbed from last to seventh in the constructors’ championship, proved particularly weak through low-speed changes of direction, under braking and through longer-duration fast corners. But speaking on the second day of pre-season running in Bahrain, Albon reckoned Williams had worked to rectify … Read more
The new F1 season is on the horizon with teams set to travel to Bahrain for pre-season testing, where fans will get a first glimpse into who may – or may not – be competitive. Drivers will once again kickstart their F1 campaigns at Bahrain International Circuit with pre-season testing on the 21-23 February in … Read more
