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Latifi needs to stop ‘overthinking’ in F1 2022

Latifi needs to stop 'overthinking' in F1 2022

The Canadian is coming off the back of an encouraging 2021 campaign, where he scored his first F1 points with top 10 results in the Hungarian and Belgian grands prix.

However, his season did have some frustrating moments at times as he either failed to capitalise on strong pace or found himself overshadowed by then team-mate George Russell.

Williams’ heads of vehicle performance Dave Robson has acknowledged that Latifi lacked a level of consistency through 2021, but he has no doubts the youngster has what is needed to make progress.

However, Robson thinks that key to doing it is in Latifi having more trust in his natural talent and not trying to over-analyse what is going on.

“I think this year has been a bit more up and down than we’d hoped,” explained Robson. “We [Williams] have bounced a bit between qualifying and race pace, but he’s still got a lot of very good talent for driving a car and understanding and articulating where the problems are.

“Obviously, it’s…

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