In the round-up: Williams team principal James Vowles says they can make more gains in the second half of the season after their windfall result in Azerbaijan moved them ahead of Alpine to eighth in the championship.
In brief
Vowles eyeing more points for Williams
Vowles praised Alexander Albon and Franco Colapinto for delivering the team’s biggest points haul since he took charge last year.
“It’s not easy doing a one-stop here, pushing the tyres to the absolute limits of life and not making a single mistake and they both did that today admirably,” he said in a video released by the team. “Off to Singapore next, I’m excited to see what we can deliver there and beyond. There is plenty of opportunity left in this championship.”
Vowles said the last three races have shown the progress the team has made with its latest upgrade. “You can now see across Zandvoort, Monza and here we were able to get the car into qualifying three, except this weekend both cars were there.
“In terms of the race itself, we try two different strategies, really, to race Fernando. They are very, very strong, he’s a very clever driver and it was difficult to get ahead of him. I think they had just slightly better degradation than we did relative to Alex, and that’s something we need to look into.
“But the car pace is there or thereabouts. Then towards the end of the race, Franco just doing a brilliant job, staying within just a few seconds of Alex, ready to pick up anything that came our way and, it did in a big way.”
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