2026 Atlassian Williams F1 Team

[AR3-GP]

Carlos Sainz: "If we want to have a faster car, we have to do what Aston Martin did"

"Aston has just shown from one race to the next that a team that was dealing with one of the worst aerodynamic loads on the entire grid now seems to have achieved the best aero in the midfield".

"The Baku upgrade won't be enough to fight for points".

"After Baku, there won't be anything, and I think the team should focus on the 2027 car".

[McMika98]

Vowles need to go, along with the Technical Director Matt Harman, who Vowles hired after being sacked by Alpine for making the worst chassis that was overweight. Alpine played a blinder.
There were murmurs about him being a guy full of hot air, talking a good game but lacking the technical skills. The nerve of the guy to say he didn't car about 2024, 2025. All the eggs in the 2026 basket, judge me in 2026.
Preseason it felt odd hearing the overweight rumours but the PR videos he mentioned the car was good and fighting for points regularly. Now that has shifted to not even making it to Q1 this year and focus on next year.

[Ashwinv16]

I am not a Willimas fan and i dont usually comment but one purticlar message after the Q1 exit from Albon reminded me of a massive issue they had since about 2008 that keeps poppoping up now and again, Chassis flex. Throught the time Goerge russell was there and before even when Juan Pablo Montaya was up until recently with Logan seargent there always seems to be a weird issue with balance and each time it turned out to be chassis flex causing resonance vibration making the aero useless (2012 random fluctiations with Pastor winning at Bareclona(the smoothest track at that time). 90% liekly the same reason. Ownereships chnaged so the factory might have lost previous knwoledge somehow. Nothing else explaines this and Honestly, Williams needs a new factory infact even a campus or atleaste equipments.

[clownfish]

Honestly, Williams needs a new factory infact even a campus or atleaste equipments.

Which is going to be extremely difficult since capital expenditure is limited under the cost cap.
I think F1 agreed to have the limit raised as a temporary measure, but it's returning to normal shortly (if it hasn't already).

[Waz]

Carlos Sainz: "If we want to have a faster car, we have to do what Aston Martin did"

"Aston has just shown from one race to the next that a team that was dealing with one of the worst aerodynamic loads on the entire grid now seems to have achieved the best aero in the midfield".

"The Baku upgrade won't be enough to fight for points".

"After Baku, there won't be anything, and I think the team should focus on the 2027 car".

Just do what Aston Martin did. Build a new billion dollar facility, hire some of the best engineers around from the top 4 teams, including the most successful designer of all time.

Become a works team for a major OEM with recent success at building engines.

Simple.

[Jurgen von Diaz]

Vowles said that Baku's upgrade would be massive. After they saw Aston Martin's upgrade, Vowles says their Baku upgrade isn't so massive, so eyes are on 2027. This guy just doesn't learn to keep his mouth shut.