Canadian GP: Overall positive Friday for Williams Racing


By Williams Racing
June 8 2024

Coming off two rain affected Friday practice sessions the Williams Racing Team achieved a positive start to their weekend in Canada. The start of the day saw limited running for both Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant as heavy rain had left patches of water around the track. It was not until the second session that Alex and Logan were able to set some times on the soft tyre. Alex would finish 9th and Logan 12th. It was certainly a productive day for the team as they gathered information on both the soft and intermediate tyres.

 
 Williams Racing Canadian Grand Prix Friday Practice
Sargeant
 

Sargeant 

Logan Sargeant:
"Obviously, it was a massively disrupted day. Looking at it as a whole, we didn’t get to drive in proper dry or wet conditions. There was maybe a little missed opportunity by not doing any laps when it was a bit more wet in FP1. Nonetheless it was okay in general with a few things to sort out. I think we’re going to be in a similar weather pattern tomorrow, so it’ll be about being on the right tyre at the right time and getting the strategy correct."

Albon 
 

Alex Albon:
"Overall, we had a good practice session in FP2 and it was fun to get out there and take a bit of risk. It looks like we will have similar conditions across the weekend, so I'm glad we could do some laps on the slicks and the Inters. The car felt strong on both compounds, and the slicks felt really good even with the DRS closed, so there's definitely more lap time there. In all my running today, I was between fourth and ninth so I'm generally feeling positive for tomorrow."

 

Smeets

Sven Smeets Sporting Director:
"
As predicted in the beginning of the week the weather determined the run plans today. There wasn’t much running in FP1 for us, but we made the most of FP2 doing a good number of laps on the Soft tyre before changing to the Intermediate. We collected valuable information on both tyres for the rest of the weekend and the drivers are reasonably happy with the set-up of the car in these constantly changing conditions. More rain is expected for tomorrow and Sunday which will keep things interesting. We will have to be on top of our game as there will be opportunities to score valuable points on Sunday."

 
Albon
 
Sargeant
 
Practice Classification
 
Driver   FP1 FP2
A. Albon   NO TIME SET (20th)   1:16.977 (9th)
L Sargeant   1:36.586 (16th)   1:17.496 (12th)
Albon
 

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