The Williams Racing Team would complete the final day of pre-season tesing at the Bahrain circuit. Both Alex Albon and Nicholas Latiif would be present to carry out the days programme but Nicholas would be given more time as a result of losing track after after his Day 2 brake fire. Even though the Bahrain test was far from ideal both Alex and Nicholas would come away pleased with the efforts from the team and the results achieved. Next stop is the 2022 Bahrain GP, opening race of the 2022 Formula One season.
Williams Racing Bahrain
Test Day Three 12032022
Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle
Performance: The conditions throughout the test were warm and breezy, with
the wind changing direction late on day two. With the change of wind
direction came a drop in temperature, which gave us an opportunity to test
the car and the tyres in a useful range of conditions.
Inevitably, the test was extremely busy and after the damage done to the car
early on day two, we had to make a few changes to the plan. Although
frustrating to lose a lot of track time, we exposed an issue which we have
now been able to fix, and we were able to complete 142 trouble free laps on
the final day.
We have a lot to work through over the next few days before we run the cars
again here in Bahrain, but we are in a good position as we head into the
2022 race season.
Nicholas Latifi: It was obviously not a fully ideal test, specifically with
the issue we had on day two, but I think the team did a great job of coming
together to make the most of day three. There was a lot of good teamwork
from both the day and night crew to get the car repaired and all the
engineers pulled together to put us in the best position to maximise day
three. We did a lot of good work, learned a lot and did a lot of laps. That
was good for me to try to make up the lost mileage from yesterday and now
there’s a lot of data to go over to see how we can be in the best shape
possible for the first race next week.
Alex Albon: Pre-season testing is now finished and next time we’re out on
track it will finally be a race weekend! We got some good mileage in over
the course of the test and I feel like we’ve ticked all our boxes, despite
losing some time on Friday. In terms of the car’s performance, I think
there’s some more to come from us and I’m excited to keep pushing next
weekend and throughout the course of the season to get the most out of the
FW44. Overall, it’s been a positive and incredibly valuable test and the
team have done a great job, especially in some challenging circumstances.
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