Belgian GP: Mixed qualifying for Williams Racing


By Williams Racing
July 28 2024

The Williams Racing Team would come away from a wet quaifying for the 2024 Belgian GP with a set of very mixed results. For Alex Albon he was able to make his way through Q1 and missed out on Q3 by the smallest fractions, 0.003s. For Logan Sargeant his qualifying did not produce the same results with Logan dropping out in Q1 only managing 19th. Both drivers had been outside the top 15 during Q1 but only Alex was able to produce a laptime that saw him manage 14th and into Q2. Logan would finish well outside the top 15. Replays showed Logan running wide at Le Source on his final lap, which was an accepted line to take, but as he came out the Red Bull of Verstappen would come alongside and appear to impede Logan. Commentators were of the opinion that this really wasn't a case of impeding but did it impact his run to Eau Rouge quite possibly.

 
 Williams Racing Belgian Grand Prix Qualifying
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Sargeant 
 

Logan Sargeant:
"It’s always tricky at Spa and it’s never easy in these kinds of conditions when the track is drying. A lot of it comes down to that last lap and we didn’t get one in as we didn’t get ourselves in the right position. So what could have been, nobody knows, but I’m not sure we quite had the pace today. We’ll go again tomorrow."

Albon

Alex Albon:
"It was a lot of fun out there today with the conditions making it a bit tricky but a joy to drive. Trying to get the rears to survive or to go flat through Eau Rouge; every lap was pushing the limits. Whilst we were three milliseconds off Q3, I’m still happy with how the car felt and due to penalties, we’ll be starting from P10 anyway. We’ve made a lot of changes on our car from FP3 to Qualifying, however because of the rain, we aren’t 100% sure how these changes have gone, but we’ll be looking to have a good day tomorrow and fight for points."

Smeets
 

Sven Smeets Sporting Director:
"The weather dictated Qualifying today. The track remained too wet for Softs, however it was very difficult to decide when to come in and take a new set of Intermediates. With Logan, we missed the right track position at the end of Q1 and had to abandon our last pushlap which we needed to get into Q2. Alex got into Q2 with a good lap and missed out on Q3 by a few milliseconds, but we’re happy with P11 after such a tricky Qualifying. Tomorrow it will be dry so the race will be a completely different story to today, but we're ready to fight for points."

Albon
 
Albon
 

Track: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium  

Lap Length: 7.004 km
Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3
11 A Albon Williams Racing 1:55.722   1:54.473 -
19 L Sargeant Williams Racing 1:57.230   - -
 
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