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When winter testing starts on Monday the Catalan motor speedway, one was among the absent.
Nine manufacturers and seven drivers ‘ world championships in the 1980s and 1990s won for Williams told the tests below, that it is unable to participate in the test of the opening day. The garage had been already cancelled Saturday’s scheduled picture day.
– We have been incredibly busy winter Grove, when we have tried to get FW42-car ready. All of the not for lack of trying, we need a little more time, team principal Claire Williams justification test session delayed on Sunday Motorsport.
– this is Not optimal but also not the end of the world.
on Monday Williams announced that FW42-car see the track nor on Tuesday. According to the team, the car of graduation is delayed, because the design work was stretched as far as possible, the best possible performance in order to achieve.
an Explanation can be considered as a credible one-day delay, but when a quarter of a test date is missed, many experts firmly believe that the reason must be more serious.
F1i-site says that the most likely reason for the car to be late for is that some parts of the design is to make mistakes, which must have been subsequently repaired. Motorsport of hinting according to the production schedule is generally designed poorly. What’s even more worrying, the factory workers are told expressed her concerns about the schedule, but management has not taken the comments seriously.
This problem is likely to have consequences, especially in the garage, the technical leader of the Paddy Lowe .
Either Wednesday?
When Williams ‘ new car, sometimes to be completed, time-honored team needs for all possible performance, as it missed last season in the manufacturers championship series final after collecting 21 races from only 7 points.
the BBC’s F1 editor Andrew Benson , however, writes that according to estimates by the Williams new car is round about two seconds slower than the old. The difference is significant Ferrari team manager Mattia Binotto reviews, that the new F1 cars are a lap 1.5 seconds slower than a year ago.
performance in addition to the test miles, the need is undeniable, because the team drivers run this season F1 debutante George Russell , 21 Robert Kubica , 34, who was seen in the number one race driver in the role, most recently in 2010. Garage announced on Tuesday that test driver Nicholas Latif driving winter test has been canceled, so Russell and Kubica will get enough time to new tool for their control.
williams, the new car is still in the garage at the factory in England. Benson garage trying to get their cars on the way today so that it would achieve to drive in Spain Wednesday during the day. Many believe this reviews only then, when they see FW42-car action.
Sources: BBC, Motorsport, F1i
Williams presented their new car appearance already early last week, but winter testing began, it turns out that FW42-car not ready yet. AOP
