Williams Racing
It was always set to be a tough day for the team, with an early call time for Qualifying and the 2024 Formula 1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix to follow shortly after. Still, nobody could have foreseen just how difficult it would become.
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It’s a really frustrating day. I can only feel sorry for the team, as I know the damage over the last few weeks has been tremendous, and it’s put us in a challenging position for the next three races.
Unsurprisingly, the last few weeks have been tough, but I finally felt we’d found our rhythm again and were in a good place; the pace in Qualifying was strong, and I felt comfortable with the car.
I didn’t expect the incident in Turn 1 to happen, so we need to take a proper look to figure out what happened. It’s disappointing, as scoring points would’ve been an excellent opportunity. As we know, coming to Brazil, there is always a chance for crazy races. However, our competitors have been able to capitalise on this.
I know it hasn’t been easy for the team, but it’s times like this where we must show resilience and try to find the silver lining. The positives are that the car was quick, and I’ve started to get the right rhythm back. Let’s fight for the last three races and keep our hopes high for the Constructors’ Championship.
Franco Colapinto
I’m unfortunate for the team after what happened today; it was tough on everyone, and things didn’t go our way. The team did a fantastic job putting my car back on track for the Race after the accident in Qualifying, so I’m very sorry for them ending the day this way. We had a quick car and were looking to take advantage of any opportunities in the Race. We boxed for Inters. I was pushing to get the tyre temps up, but I lost the car on one of the big rivers of water on the track. We can and will recover as a team. We still have three races to go, and we’ll return from this.
Sven Smeets, Sporting Director:
The nature of Formula 1 is that you can have some of the most incredible feelings and results and some of the lowest moments you can feel within a sport. I think it’s fair to say this weekend is the second of those two. We’ve had three considerable crashes just a few hours from one another and have a tremendous amount of work to get ourselves back on top of our spare situation before we go to Las Vegas in just a few weeks.
Our rivals, Alpine, were quick in the race. No doubt about it. They deserved those positions, but they scored a massive bag of points, putting them back up into a very high Championship position and demoting us back down to 9th. I never give up until it’s time to give up, and that won’t be until we’re in Abu Dhabi and the checkered flag has dropped. We have two fast drivers and a fast car underneath us.
We must go to every single one of these weekends now and deliver everything possible whilst making sure we are still looking ahead towards 2025 and 2026 because that, as I’ve said all along, is where our goal is indeed set. It’s all about getting the foundations right towards that 26′ region. That doesn’t make today any less painful. Far from it; I’m hurting right now. But actually, I wanted to watch that race to the finish to make sure I remember today because this isn’t what I want us to be feeling in the future.
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