European GP: Williams Race Review

By AT&T Williams F1 Team
June 27 2011

The AT&T Williams F1 team looks back at their 2011 European Grand Prix.

 
 Williams European GP Race Review
AT&T Williams brought home both of its Williams Cosworth FW33s in today’s European Grand Prix. Rubens Barrichello started from P13 on the Option tyre and with a three stop strategy. A smooth start promoted him to 12th, where he ultimately finished the race after a solid drive. Originally on a two stop strategy, Pastor Maldonado started from P15 but lost position off the line leaving him to fight the remaining 56 laps from P22. Tyre issues forced him into an early pitstop on lap 10 and onto a three stop strategy. In a race with a full field of finishers, Pastor was unable to recover higher than P18.
Rubens Barrichello: Rubens Barrichello
 "We did not have the car underneath us today. I really pushed myself to the limit though and I’m happy with what I delivered. The team have worked hard to bring lots of upgrades to the car so I’m sorry that we didn’t do better. I do think that we should be pleased that we beat some better cars today."
Pastor Maldonado: 
Pastor Maldonado"We had a slow start so I lost positions off the line. I then couldn’t make the Prime tyre work for me in the first stint so I had to come in early to change them. The early stop forced us onto a three stop strategy. It was too difficult to make it work from where we were in the field though and I couldn’t recover. We’ll now move on to Silverstone where I will keep fighting to get some points."
Sam Michael Technical Director WilliamsF1:
 Sam Michael"We needed a little more performance to get into the points today. Toro Rosso’s two stop and Sauber’s one stop strategies allowed them to jump ahead of us. Rubens drove a consistent race, racing hard with the cars
around him. We had a poor start on Pastor’s car and then unusually low tyre pressures on his first set of Prime tyres, but his pace improved considerably on the next set. We have a lot of work to do between now and
Silverstone to allow for the rule changes in respect to the exhaust."

Valencia Street Circuit, Spain
57 laps, 308.940km / 191.976 miles

Weather: Hot & Sunny
Air 27-280C, Track 44-470C

POS

DRIVER

TEAM

Time (Fastest Lap)

Grid

1

S Vettel

 Red Bull

1:39:36.169 (1:41.852, 1st)

1

2

 F Alonso

Ferrari

+10.891 (1:42.308, 2nd)

4

3

M Webber

Red Bull

+27.255 (1:42.534, 4th)

2

 
12 R BARRICHELLO
FW33-03 CA420		 AT&T Williams +1 lap (1:44.131, 17th) 13

18

P MALDONADO
FW32-03 CA325

AT&T Williams

+1 lap (1:43.134, 7th)

16

 

Bookmark or share this story with:

European GP: Williams Race Review
Discussion started by Williams F1 , 27/06/2011 02:08
Williams F1
27/06/2011 02:08
What do you think? You can have your say by posting below.
If you do not already have an account Click here to Register.

Reply Quote Report
Goto: Forum List•Message List•Search• Log In
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
We record all IP addresses on the Sportnetwork message boards which may be required by the authorities in case of defamatory or abusive comment. We seek to monitor the Message Boards at regular intervals. We do not associate Sportnetwork with any of the comments and do not take responsibility for any statements or opinions expressed on the Message Boards. If you have any cause for concern over any material posted here please let us know as soon as possible by e-mailing abuse@sportnetwork.net