The Williams Racing Team would complete their final day of pre-season testing with Alex Albon driving the whole day. At the end Alex would set a best time of 1:30.984 after what was a productive day for the team. For the team it was again a day of setup work trying to resolve some of the issues that have become apparent with the FW46. But one positive was that it was a day without any issues. For Alex he came away from the day confident that the FW46 is a decent car to go racing with.
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Alex Albon:
"Firstly, we’ve got a decent car to go racing with. I do think we
struggled a little bit with the car across day one and two with just how
different it is, struggling to rebalance it, but we made some big
headway in making the car more driveable. With the changing car
characteristics, we shifted some of our historical problems to different
areas. Still, we’ve been able to fix some of these but unfortunately in
the process, we’ve picked up a few things we didn’t like. Despite this,
we did a bit of a radical set-up today and this worked out for the
better. Looking at the rest of the grid, the midfield has closed up a
lot with everyone making a big jump from last year, so it’s all quite
equal throughout the field. This year is going to be all about the fine
details and potential tracks that better suit others, so there are going
to be lots of interesting battles."
Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance:
"We had a
good day to complete the pre-season test. We did another 120 laps and
this time without any car issues. Alex was able to build on the work
done by Logan yesterday and continued to evolve the FW46. Across a range
of fuel loads, the car was behaving well, and Alex was able to complete
a decent race simulation using two of the tyre compounds that will be
available next week.
Inevitably at this time of year, there is a lot of scope to push the
FW46 harder and to develop it quickly. We have a few days to analyse the
data from this week and decide how we build the cars for FP1 and how we
look to introduce the first round of car updates. There is a lot to do
but we have made a solid start and have a good foundation to build on."
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