F1 Madness

The Williams revival has begun. Late last week the privately owned team revealed the first render of what their 2017 challenger, the FW40, will look like. As is always the case the first time a new F1 car is unveiled the team does not want to give away any of the major details until they […]

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The Williams Formula 1 Team has announced that Dirk De Beer will join the team as Head of Aerodynamics. De Beer will commence his role at the Grove based team from 1 March 2017. His recent stint in F1 was at Ferrari alongside James Allison, who was announced as Mercedes Technical Director from 1 March […]

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By now the news has spread far and wide that Mercedes have, officially, picked Valtteri Bottas to partner Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes for the 2017 season. Instinctively, the dominant question will be how he will shape up against his three-time world champion teammate. It wasn’t the electrifying choice many were looking for but Bottas is […]

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Williams’ deputy principal Claire Williams says Valtteri Bottas an announcement regarding the Finn replacing Nico Rosberg at Mercedes is expected this week. Rosberg retired shortly after winning the F1 world championship title last year, leaving Mercedes looking for a team mate for Lewis Hamilton for the 2017 season. When Williams was asked whether it was […]

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Williams F1 Chief Technical Officer Pat Symonds will leave the Grove based team at the end of the year. After joining Williams in 2013, the team finished 3rd in the constructors standings in 2014 but have since slipped down to 5th behind Force India. Williams confirmed on Tuesday that Symonds will officially step down from […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES – Toto WOLFF (Mercedes), Stephen FITZPATRICK (Manor), Otmar SZAFNAUER (Force India), Monisha KALTENBORN (Sauber), Claire WILLIAMS (Williams) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: Monisha, can we start with you? Congratulations on the points in Brazil. Describe the emotions and the reaction within the team? Monisha KALTENBORN: Well of course it was very relieving considering that it […]

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The Williams Formula 1 team has announced that Lance Stroll will be one of its drivers for the 2017 season. In a statement released my the Williams Martini F1 Team it was confirmed that Canadian teenager Lance Stroll will take over the vacant seat of retiring Brazilian driver Felipe Massa at the team for the […]

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In a conference at the Monza circuit Felipe Massa has announced his retirement from Formula 1. The conference took place with the Brazilian driver and Williams team boss Claire Williams alongside. The Massa family were also in attendance at the announcement. Mass joined the Williams team from Ferrari in 2014 alongside Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas. […]

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EAM REPRESENTATIVES – Christian HORNER (Red Bull Racing), Claire WILLIAMS (Williams), Monisha KALTENBORN (Sauber), Eric BOULLIER (McLaren), Frédéric VASSEUR (Renault), Robert FERNLEY (Force India) PRESS CONFERENCE Eric, if we could start with you please. Let’s start by talking about the updated power unit you’re running in both cars this weekend. Where is it better than the […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: Frédéric VASSEUR (Renault) Roberto BOCCAFOGLI (Pirelli) Eric BOULLIER (McLaren) Gene HAAS (Haas) Toto WOLFF (Mercedes) Claire WILLIAMS (Williams)   PRESS CONFERENCE If I could start with you Eric: you had both cars in the points in Monaco a couple of races ago but it was a tougher race for you in Montreal. How […]

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