Monaco GP: Encouraging qualifying for Williams Racing
By Williams Racing
May 26 2024
Qualifying for the 2024 Monaco GP would see the Williams Racing Team come away with what was an encouraging result with Alex Albon making it into Q3 to finish in a fantastic 9th. But for team-mate Logan Sargeant his qualifying would only see him finish 17th just the smallest of margins outside of making it into Q2. For the team as a whole it was an positive result after what has been a difficult start to the 2024 season. But this was just qualifying next comes Sunday's race and the team still has concerns over their tyre issues that have been present for quite some time. For Logan as a result of other drivers being disqualified will see himself start from 15th. Hopefully the team can take this opportunity and secure their first points of the 2024 season.
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Williams Racing
Monaco Grand Prix Qualifying |
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Logan Sargeant: "It
was a good session for us. I’ve been driving well since FP1 and I was
really happy with my laps in Qualifying – I felt like I got everything
out of the package I had today. Obviously, we’ve been open that we have
some cross-car differences this weekend and I can only expect quite a
bit of the difference is coming from that. It is tough to overtake here
but we need to focus on ourselves, try to have clean stints and see what
we can do tomorrow. Monaco is one of the most special tracks to drive.
To sit in an F1 car and pull out of the garage for Qualifying is like no
other and to be able to put the car on the edge like that is everything
we dream of so it’s a pleasure to drive here." |
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Alex Albon:
"It was great out there today; I really enjoyed those laps. We’ve
had the car in a good place all weekend, however we’re still struggling
a little with understeer in Sector 2, so we’ve made some changes
throughout the day to try get on top of it. It was all about getting the
tyres in the right window, so we chose clean air, focusing on the tyres
and not worrying about the track evolution as much. Looking to tomorrow,
graining might be a problem, so we’ll have to manage this throughout the
race.
Hopefully, I can get some
clean air and look after the tyres. On paper, this track is the least
weight penalising of the year, so it’s allowed
us to play on a slightly more level playing field.
For the team, I think with Logan not having the upgrades and with a
slightly alternate setup, it was potentially the difference in him
making it into Q2." |
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Sven Smeets Sporting Director:
"Free Practice this morning was all about learning how to bring the
Soft tyre into the right window for Qualifying runs. As always in
Monaco, Q1 is very busy and you need to be a bit lucky with traffic and
start your push laps with the tyres in the right window. We managed with
Alex to proceed to Q2 but unfortunately just missed out with Logan,
which was a real shame. Missing some of the updates probably cost him a
place in Q2. Alex delivered a great lap in Q2 that brought us for the
first time into Q3 this season and we are happy to start from P9
tomorrow. Now it will be key for Alex to have a good start, stay out of
trouble in those first laps and try to consolidate his good starting
position into points. For Logan the race will be tough as overtaking
will be difficult, but we will be ready to take every opportunity to
make progress." |
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Track: Circuit de Monaco, Monaco
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Lap Length: 3.337 km |
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Pos |
Driver |
Team |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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9 |
A Albon |
Williams Racing |
1:11.623 |
1:11.216 |
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17 |
L Sargeant |
Williams Racing |
1:12.020 |
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