2026 Atlassian Williams F1 Team

[CZOLG]

Vowles is a weasel, nothing more.

[Jurgen von Diaz]

Vowles is moving the target and acting as if it's always been this way. Fraud.

[JPower]

Car definitely looked better at Miami. Very good double points finish.

Still a good bit behind Alpine but hopefully they are headed in the right direction especially with the weight saving parts gradually making their way to the car.

[Mr Brooksy]

I was thinking this morning about how badly we went at Catalunya again on the weekend, then it hit me... When was the last time Williams actually did respectably at the king of testing tracks?

We won in 2012, and seemed to go well for the next 2 years, but since then we have sucked bad at this track. Surely there's a fundamental design flaw that we need to identify and change... How can we be so bad and not fix whatever is the underlining problem at this track!

It's my understanding that the prevailing view is, if a car works well at Catalunya then it's usually a decent car...

[Brahmal]

It's my understanding that the prevailing view is, if a car works well at Catalunya then it's usually a decent car...

Not sure that's as true now as it used to be, with the growth of street-circuits on the calendar. Not a lot of high-speed corners on those tracks.

[Mr Brooksy]

Ah, apologies, I just did a deep dive on the results at Barcelona vs average qualifying for each season. Turns out it's pretty average.
Nothing to see here

[Jurgen von Diaz]

Sainz got to Williams, and now he would like to be on F1's payroll, not Williams's. Sounds like someone has had enough of Williams, but there is no way out.

[Emag]

I am not sure how Williams can fulfill the "promises" James made anyway. You don't go forward with hopes and dreams alone. The unfortunate reality is that unless Williams finds a backer that is willing to pour a substantial amount of money into this team, there's no realistic way for them to ever break free from the midfield.

[ME4ME]

That might've been true but as far as I known Dorilton has invested plenty, brought the team up to the cost cap and investined towards the limit for Capex too, ERP system and all that.

Now it's about execution.

I still feel that Vowles got stuck in the Seidl trap and sought to fix the team 3 years into the future but failed to work in the here and now through continues progress. His perfectionism let him to believe that 2026 would be different by investing everything into it, but failed to compound organizational performance year over year. Too much strategical planning and too little getting things done.

[SSJ4]

sainz was saying to MARCA spanish media. new package for silverstone. hopefully will make them more comptetitive

[clownfish]

sainz was saying to MARCA spanish media. new package for silverstone. hopefully will make them more comptetitive

That didn't go too well

Carlos sounded well ticked off in this interview :

"It's clear that what we brought this weekend hasn't worked. We were expecting a significant step forward that hasn't materialised.

"It's starting to become worrying and frustrating because the improvements aren't working."

The four-time grand prix winner believes the problem runs deeper than the new parts themselves.

"When you bring something to the track that shows a lot of laptime in the wind tunnel and in the simulator, and then you see that you've only made a very small step forward, it means there's something not working in our calculations, numbers, development... and that's worrying."

"With this set of rules, for whatever reason we still don't understand, we're not able to develop the car properly."

https://www.grandprix.com/news/stalled- ... sainz.html

[Brahmal]

That didn't go too well

Carlos sounded well ticked off in this interview :

This is depressing. They can change leadership, engineers, and drivers, but the more things change the more they stay the same. It's starting to appear that the improvements over the last couple seasons were a blip instead of a trend.

[Mr Brooksy]

I've been wrong before, but I can't help but think that they are trying to add aero parts and weight improvments to an overall concept that simply isn't working.

Things like suspension, they are the only team with this configuration, they have talked about the car 3 wheeling (obviously not in reality, but the contact patch in some corners seems to reduce significantly, when reading between the lines).

I really hope that this new B spec car is a big step forward... But this season has been more depressing that even 2019!

[Waz]

That might've been true but as far as I known Dorilton has invested plenty, brought the team up to the cost cap and investined towards the limit for Capex too, ERP system and all that.

Now it's about execution.

I still feel that Vowles got stuck in the Seidl trap and sought to fix the team 3 years into the future but failed to work in the here and now through continues progress. His perfectionism let him to believe that 2026 would be different by investing everything into it, but failed to compound organizational performance year over year. Too much strategical planning and too little getting things done.

This is the difference Pat Symonds made while he was there. He looked at the bottle necks, and the capability of each department and focused each of them on doing what was possible, instead of ideal.

He got them to operate effectively with the tools they had, and the result was a couple of pretty good cars and good results.

Then Paddy Lowe arrived with Big Team Energy and now Vowles has the same vibe.