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European GP: Further points for Williams Martini


By Williams Martini Racing
June 20 2016

The 2016 European GP would see the Williams Martini team secure points from both drivers with Valtteri Bottas finishing in 6th and team-mate Felipe Massa 10th. It was a race that saw the two drivers run different strategies with Valtteri making a single stop and Felipe two. Despite the result it was not a race where the team came away happy. It was well off what they expected to achieve with Felipe especially suffering from tyre degredation during the race that limited his pace.

 
 Williams Martini European GP Race Review
 
Bottas
 
Race Notes
• Valtteri Bottas finished sixth and Felipe Massa 10th in the European Grand Prix
• Valtteri made a one-stop strategy work and ran as high as third before making his stop on lap 19. He was able to manage his tyres and strategy well to stay ahead of the two-stoppers and finish sixth
• Felipe had to run a two-stop strategy due to tyre graining. He was fifth before his first stop on lap 7, and sixth before his final stop on lap 28, but he continued to struggle with his tyres and finished 10th
• The team collected nine points in the Constructors’ Championship, while Valtteri retains seventh in the Driver’s Championship and Felipe drops to ninth behind Perez.
Massa 
Felipe Massa:
"It was a really terrible race for me, one to forget. I struggled massively with the tyres. I couldn’t make them work, I was having a lot more degradation on the rears than I thought I would. One point is more than it could have been because I couldn’t drive the car in the proper way and I couldn’t save the tyres either. We maybe need to change something in the car to make the tyres work in a different way here in the future."
Bottas Valtteri Bottas:
"Overall, it was a good day for us because the pace we had today wasn’t enough for any more. It felt like a good race from my side, and we managed to do the one-stop strategy which was definitely the best one today. I’m glad we could manage the tyres and get it to work because that made the sixth place possible. The team did a really good job with what we had today, the strategy and the pitstop. Now we need to work hard because we need better positions than this. We need to make the car quicker and then we can fight for another podium soon."
Rob Smedley Rob Smedley, Head of Vehicle Performance:
"That was nowhere near what we expected from this race. Valtteri being ninth in that first stint didn’t help us, but he was able to make a one-stop strategy work, as were all the top six. Felipe was struggling with rear graining in the first stint. Valtteri had a little bit of the same, to a lesser extent, and then his tyres came back and he was quite strong towards the end of that stint. He was going quicker and quicker so we could leave him out and he was able to get up to sixth, but it’s still a disappointing result. The team did a fantastic job with the pitstops, the strategy worked out and gained some positions for Valtteri but unfortunately we couldn’t do it for Felipe as well because of tyre degradation. The team is working really well, it’s the car’s pace that’s let us down. The main thing we need to take away from this race is that we were out of position, in terms of pace, compared to Force India. We’ve got to go away and understand why we weren’t quick enough, so that’s what we’ll concentrate on. We’ve got Austria coming up so we need to look forward."
 
Massa
 

Track Baku, Azerbaijan
6.001km / 3.728 miles

Weather: Warm and dry
Air: 31-33°C Track: 38-46°C

POS

DRIVER

TEAM

Time

Grid

1

N Rosberg

Mercedes 1h32m52.366s

1

2 S Vettel Ferrari + 16.696s 3
3 S Perez Force India 25.241s 7
6 V BOTTAS Williams Martini Racing + 1m00.886s 8
10 F MASSA Williams Martini Racing + 1m25.375s 5
 
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