Williams Racing aims for a tactical reset in Brazil this weekend. Ahead of the São Paulo GP, Alex Albon suggests that they must stop using experimental set-ups on their cars immediately. At round 21 of the 2025 F1 season, a familiar baseline is strictly necessary to recover their form now. Albon led this “back to…
Williams Racing announced it will enter the 2026 F1 season with a new name and logo, which are a callback to the team’s successful past. In its long history with the sport, the Grove-based outfit has raced under different variations of the Williams name. The latest rebrand came in 2014, when the team changed its…
Williams’ Carlos Sainz reflects on his disaster F1 Mexico City GP after the Spaniard endured multiple penalties en route to a disappointing DNF in the closing stages. Williams’ Carlos Sainz endured a difficult and disappointing outing in Mexico City last weekend. Starting from a lowly P12 carrying a penalty from Austin, the Spaniard found himself…
It was a disappointing F1 North American doubleheader for Williams and James Vowles in the Grands Prix as Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon failed to score a point for the team. In fact, the team has failed to get both drivers in the points at the same race since Monaco, excluding Sprints. After the Thai…
Alex Albon finished the F1 Mexico City GP in P12 after a difficult race. The Williams driver was one of two who opted to start on the hard tyre, along with Franco Collapinto. This was not the preffered strategy, with most of the grid starting on the soft tyre compund and switching to the medium…
Williams team principal James Vowles has offered a detailed explanation of what went wrong for Carlos Sainz during the F1 Mexico City GP. Sainz headed into the weekend with an inevitable 5-place grid penalty looming over him as a consequence of his clash with Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli at the previous round in Austin. His…
Carlos Sainz will start the F1 Mexico City GP from P12 on the grid. A superb performance in qualifying saw him beat championship leader Oscar Piastri to P7. However, a 5-place grid penalty for taking out Kimi Antonelli at COTA leaves him with work to do to score points. Williams had struggled in FP3 on…
Alex Albon remained optimistic on the performance of the FW47 ahead of the F1 Mexico City GP, with no upgrades to the car since before the summer break. High altitudes at the F1 Mexico City GP With the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez sitting roughly 2,000 metres above sea level, the air is slightly thinner, which impacts…
2025 marks a new year of opportunities for younger drivers or ones with plenty of experience in other categories as each team needs to give a rookie driver or drivers four opportunities in their cars during the season in F1 FP1 sessions. In previous years it had been just two, with many saving the second…
Following their incident during Sunday’s F1 US GP, both Williams’ Carlos Sainz and Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli gave their comments on the race-defining moment. The duo came together on Lap 6 of the US GP, when Sainz went for a move on the inside of Turn 15. The Williams driver clipped the back of the Mercedes…
