Japanese GP: Limited Friday running for Williams Racing


By Williams Racing
April 5 2024

The Williams Racing Team would come away with limited meaningful running across both Friday practice sessions for the 2024 Japanese GP. FP1 would see Logan Sargeant crash his car heavily seeing him forced to sit out FP2 as well and even though he did get some laps in during FP1 he and Alex Albon did not come away comfortable with their cars setup. Then in FP2 rain would fall but it was such that it was not wet enough for wet tyres but not dry enough for dry tyres. So Alex only did a handful of laps as Logan's car was repaired. The team had planned some changes for FP2 but it will now come down to FP3. Hopefully their will be no further issues in regards to damaged cars or the weather on Saturday.

 
 Williams Racing Japanese Grand Prix Friday Practice
Sargeant
 

Sargeant 

Logan Sargeant:
"I put the car in a place I didn’t realise I was at. It’s a bit of a silly mistake and one that I shouldn’t be making especially in FP1. Fortunately, it wasn’t like the mistake last year when I over pushed. Nevertheless, I still left the team with some damage but got away better than it could’ve been."

Albon 
 

Alex Albon:
"It’s hard to say where we are with so few laps; we would’ve liked to run more in FP2 as we didn’t feel very comfortable with the car after the first session. We tried to make some changes to improve this, however with limited running, we don’t have much to go off. Hopefully the setup will work for us into FP3 and we can learn more about the car ahead of Qualifying."

 

Robson

Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance:
"
It was a shame that FP2 was affected by the rain, particularly as the conditions were never really wet enough for Intermediates nor dry enough for sensible slick running. Having lost Logan’s car early in FP1, and with Alex doing front wing testing in FP1, we were looking forward to a busy FP2, but the rain denied us that opportunity.

Whilst Logan’s crash caused a lot of damage, it was limited to the suspension, wings and floor with no damage done to the chassis or PU. The extent of the damage meant that he was unable to run in FP2, but he will be back in action in FP3.

We didn’t quite have the setup where we wanted it during FP1. We made some changes for FP2 and will now use FP3 to determine if we have gone in the right direction. Fortunately, the weather looks more stable for tomorrow so we should be set for a productive day."

 
Albon
 
Albon
 
Practice Classification
 
Driver   FP1 FP2
A. Albon 1:31.943 (12th)   -
L Sargeant 1:33.204 (20th)   -
Albon
 

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