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Elsewhere, the rumours are beginning to build about who will lead the Williams F1 technical team, as it is very clear that Paddy Lowe's leave of absence "for personal reasons" is PR chaff. Lowe is gone and there will no doubt be legal action at some point to find a settlement, but Williams now needs a carpetbeater to come in and get the place up to speed…

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Vracaj Patrika!

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Robert Kubica says he will have to stay off the kerbs during this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix because Williams is short of parts to repair his car with.

“It’s not an easy situation from the driver point of view because we will be limited with spare parts and everything,” said Kubica in Bahrain.

“Looking at what happened to me in Friday in Australia in FP1 by going on top of one kerb I get a damaged floor and we didn’t have bits to replace it. It affected probably all weekend. It’s something where you have to have a safe approach.”

Kubica said his floor was damaged on the fifth lap of practice. Williams does not have a replacement floor for his car but has repaired the damage incurred in Melbourne.

“The team is trying to get us the best car we can have to drive,” said Kubica. “But on the other hand I think in a perfect world you would have fresher parts starting a weekend and having some spare parts in a good state.

“The thing is it’s already a very difficult car to drive – not difficult, but we are lacking the grip. If we are having the parts not at 100 percent we are limiting ourselves as well.

“The situation is not perfect but still the guys and everybody is trying to do their best. We have to do the best with what we have.”

Kubica said the team’s parts shortage is exacerbating the problems they have with its FW42 chassis, which was over a second off the pace of its rivals in Australia and slower than the team’ 2018 car.

“We have this [since] Barcelona that often we are driving with the car which is not up to the best shape it can be.

“This is another factor we’ve got to make sure we get on top of it as soon as possible because also it is putting the driver in a difficult position. Because we are talking today but knowing tomorrow the situation is like it is, you cannot go over the kerbs – or you can go over the kerbs but the risk is the car will fall apart and then you have no parts to fit them.

“It is already lacking performance and we are adding another factor which is complicating our life. I know in the factory everybody is working hard. We just need a bit more time to fix the second issue but the first I’m not in a position to answer.”

 

 

Ovo je sokantno, jer sad vise ne moze biti u pitanju nedostatak vremena da se delovi proizvedu nego znaci da je u pitanju nedostatak novca, Vilijams bukvalno sece usi da zakrpi sebi dupe...

Edited by Rad-oh-yeah?, 28 March 2019 - 14:22.

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Uzas, dobro sam rekao ranije da ce Vilijams propasti nakon odlaska Martinija. Ovakvo nesto je iznad mojih ocekivanja nazalost. Treba im hitno neka finansijska injekcija pod hitno. Najjaca doza.

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Biće ovo preživljavanje dok ne dođu nova pravila. Treba izdržati

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Izgleda da ni za "šarafe" nemaju. Lete delovi na sve strane.

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Sir Patrik Hed se vratio u tim kao konsultant!

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Odlična vest! Još da nekako namaknu malo para.

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Sir Patrik Hed se vratio u tim kao konsultant!

Da zavede red...

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The giant Norwegian seafood company Mowi has announced a deal to sponsor the Williams F1 team for the next three years.

 

Ajd' boz'pomozi da im ove pare zatvore finansijsku konstrukciju da ne duva vise promaja...

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Vracaj Patrika!

 

 

Sir Patrik Hed se vratio u tim kao konsultant!

 

 

Dobro sam ovo anticipirao  

Ajd' boz'pomozi da im ove pare zatvore finansijsku konstrukciju da ne duva vise promaja...

 

 

Aprilililiiiiiiiiii! Ne znam da li da se smejem ili da placem... 

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Robert Kubica says his Williams’s lack of grip in the Bahrain Grand Prix was impossible to cure, even had they tried extreme solutions.

The F1 returnee has faced a challenging comeback in a car which is underdeveloped and short on parts. In Bahrain he was the only driver to start the race on the medium compound tyres – the rest used softs – and Kubica said he “just had no grip”.

“It looked like in the beginning of the race I could somehow hide [it]. Opening laps are more about improvisation, especially when you are far behind, it’s survival. Probably I just got better feeling with the wind and stuff like this but once everything was settled everybody took their own pace and I knew I didn’t have it.

“So it was kind of survival and trying to bring it home. I was so slow in some corners to try to protect the rear tyres but I was still sliding and still overheating them so I just really struggled with the grip. Everybody was struggling, definitely, with these windy conditions. But when you have no stability in steady conditions if you add the wind and used tyres then the game is over for you.”

The team is suffering from a vicious cycle of poor tyre performance, he explained.
“I think we could [have gone] longer but I started degrading quite a lot also in the first stint in order to stay in touch with George [Russell].

“When you are starting on harder tyres you have worse warm-up so you slide more. By sliding more you create more temperature, by creating more temperature you have less grip, so you slide even more and it is a snowball.”

Kubica said the car’s performance is “dominated” by its lack of grip and even extreme solutions would make no difference.

“You [could] do whatever you want: you could put rear tyres on the front, it would be dominated by the effect we are having. I can only try to help it with the tools but it’s so big that it’s impossible to turn it around.”

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Williams admits ‘guilt’ in key team change


Claire Williams has admitted she was responsible for a change in Williams’ team structure that resulted in the once-great outfit’s 2019 crisis.

She said that during Williams’ “four good seasons”, including third place finishes in the constructors’ championship in 2014 and 2015, she made the change.

“In order to preserve our results and even make progress, we changed something in the internal structure and it turned out to be a mistake,” she told France’s Auto Hebdo.

“It was my initiative and I admit my guilt.”

The result is clear to see in 2019, with Robert Kubica saying that in Australia and Bahrain, he is little more than a “passenger” in the Mercedes-powered car.

Williams said: “Believe me, we are not hiding our heads in the sand. We know where we are and what you need in order to win.

“But it’s a long process.”

Indeed, it is not just a performance crisis at Williams, but a cultural one.

“We are trying to independently produce as many parts as possible, and we have 620 people working for us, which is a lot for the structure we have,” Claire said.

“To create the Williams of the future while preserving our culture is the task we are facing now.”

One part of that has been to send Paddy Lowe on leave, even though the highly respected Briton had been lured away from Mercedes to lead Williams back to the top.

“I don’t want to answer that question at the moment,” Williams said.

“It’s very difficult for me to talk about Paddy and his role in this.”

She will say that other engineers have picked up the slack for the now absent Lowe, adding: “I trust them completely and believe that we are moving in the right direction.

“Patrick Head has returned to us as a consultant and to support the engineers in such a difficult period.

“He has so much experience and has the sort of character that they really listen to him. His advice will be very valuable,” Claire Williams said.

Part of the problem, she admits, is that while the subsidiary Williams Advanced Engineering once generated income for the team, that is no longer the case.

“It was created in 2010 to support the racing team and in response to the drop in sponsors’ interest. But it now contributes little to the financing of the team.

“Our funding is almost entirely dependent on sponsors and F1 income,” she said.

So Williams warmly welcomes Liberty Media’s efforts to better distribute the revenue and drive down costs, especially via a budget cap.

“Everything that is now being discussed is moving in the direction that we need,” she said.

And so, Williams says, the famous team her father established is not giving up.

“We’ve been racing for 42 years because it is our passion,” she said.

“Yes, we are at the very back of the grid now, but I know that returning to the positions we deserve is only a matter of time. I would not be talking to you now if I wasn’t sure of that.”

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One part of that has been to send Paddy Lowe on leave, even though the highly respected Briton had been lured away from Mercedes to lead Williams back to the top.

“I don’t want to answer that question at the moment,” Williams said.

“It’s very difficult for me to talk about Paddy and his role in this.”

 

Glasine kazu da je situacija sa Pedijem takva da ce da se ide na sud. Nije njoj tesko da govori o tome zbog emocija nego zato sto stagod bude rekla moze biti upotrebljeno protiv nje na sudu.