In the round-up: James Vowles says he is trying to prepare Williams to undergo three years of work at once
In brief
Williams prepare for three years of work in one
Williams team principal James Vowles says he is trying to set up his team to carry out “three years worth of work in one” with the major regulation changes for 2026 looming on the horizon.
“We go into every race weekend wanting to achieve the absolute maximum we can and we are highly competitive, which means where we finish in this year’s championship – and next year’s championship – is of significant impact and merit to us,” Vowles said. “It’s also an indication of where we are as an organisation. So the balance of those is what my job is to do, to make sure we strike the right one.
“I’m confident now that we do have a good amount of forward vision taking place in the background. That we have teams working, be it on an aerodynamic perspective or concept development ’26. And that’s going to be very, very strong in the years to come. And what we’re also trying to do is make sure our company is structured correctly, such that we can deal with almost three years’ worth of work in one, because that’s what we’re now asking of the organisation.”
Red Bull domination “should be celebrated”
NASCAR hall of fame driver Dale Earnhardt Jnr believes that the dominance of Red Bull and Max Verstappen in Formula 1 should be “celebrated”.
“I think that if a guy goes out – and we had this happen when Martin Truex Jnr won a race at Kentucky by like 13 seconds one night and everybody just thought the sky was falling – I’m thinking ‘why don’t we think this is amazing?’,” Earnhardt said on a recent podcast. “This team went out and set themselves so far apart from anyone else. Why aren’t we amazed and just in awe of what they accomplished tonight?
“But instead we thought ‘oh man, this is the worst! Gosh, I hope this never happens again…’ And I thought ‘that wasn’t the case 30, 40, 50 years ago – somebody went out and did something truly unique and was quite a bit better than the rest of the competitors. We celebrated that for decades’.
“It’s not always going to be that way. When it does happen, whoever deserves the credit – Max, the cars, the developers – all of that should be celebrated.”
Sette Camara and De Vries penalised
Sergio Sette Camara lost his points finish from Saturday’s Misano Eprix after he was hit with a post-race drive…
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