After a painful 2024 season for Williams F1 Racing team principal James Vowles reflected on what went wrong for the Grove-based team. The British engineer has admitted many times that a lot needs to change within the structure of the Grove organisation, in terms of infrastructure and technology. Nonetheless, 2024 was pretty brutal. A series…
2024 was a very tough season for the Williams F1 Team, and it is reflected in Pit Debrief’s Driver Rankings as Alex Albon is their highest in 14th. Australia nightmare the big headline in a tough start Williams only just had the FW46 ready in time for the Bahrain Grand Prix at the beginning of…
Last in our standings, the American driver’s sophomore F1 season definitely was not what neither Sargeant nor team boss James Vowles had expected or hoped for. The Williams Academy driver had prepared himself in 2022 amassing a great deal of kilometres by testing during FP1s and private tests, conducted alongside his rookie Formula 2 season….
During the final weekend of the season in Abu Dhabi, it was announced that Lia Block will continue F1 Academy. She’ll enter her second year in the all-female series still representing Williams Racing. The Formula 1 team seems to be pleased with the American driver, renewing their partnership with her and keeping her in the…
Williams Racing suffered another disappointing weekend during the 2024 F1 Qatar GP, after Alexander Albon and Franco Colapinto both failed to score a single point in either the sprint or feature race. Speaking after the race, Albon described the race as “not easy.” However, he admitted that the FW46 had not been quick enough to…
It was yet another tough weekend for young Franco Colapinto, who has crashed three times in the past two race weeks: two times at the Brazilian GP, and during Q2 of the Las Vegas round last weekend. Starting from the pits, he made up 6 spots on race day to finish P14, although he was…
Heading into the glamorous F1 Las Vegas GP, Williams and Alex Albon is keen to produce a turnaround after failing to score a single point in Brazil. With three rounds to go, the Grove-based team, however, is set to finish the 2024 F1 season in a lowly ninth place. Alex Albon, in particular, thrived over…
The Williams crew has done a remarkable job to get both cars ready for the F1 Las Vegas GP following a brutal weekend in São Paulo as Franco Colapinto and Alex Albon crashed three times between qualifying and the race as rain hit on Sunday. The Thai driver missed the race such was the damage…
Carlos Sainz is on the brink of leaving Ferrari to join Williams for the 2025 F1 season on a multi-year deal, after being ousted to make room for Lewis Hamilton to join the famous squad from next year – but the Spaniard doesn’t rule out a return to the Scuderia in the future. With just…
Franco Colapinto’s rapid rise to an F1 seat with Williams, replacing Logan Sargeant mid-season to partner Alex Albon, has thrown fresh fuel on a longstanding debate in motorsport: are junior series results in F2 a reliable gauge of F1 potential? Colapinto, whose junior career lacked the dominant performances typically expected, has held his ground impressively…
