What progresses for Williams in F1 2025

“I don’t want to say that we are sacrificing this year for next year. But this year is definitely time to do so.”

This line is very high Alex albonThinking on Williams’ upcoming campaign, focusing on capturing the team’s laser in 2026, when F1 introduces all new cars.

But this does not mean Williams This year is throwing only in the towel. Performing F1 is not a light switch that you can flick, but the result of installing the right people to create a winning culture and the right tools to execute that vision is the result of a long process. Large -scale reconstruction is a large extent to withdraw the awards in the future, which today runs the Grove Factory, Boss James Walls has revealed the team employees that already from a thousand. More people have been swollen.

A lot of pieces that are helping to build Williams should already come together this year, whether it is a better idea, equipment or functioning. Some of them are already in place, as contrary to the launch of Williams last week and unlike its severe condition 12 months ago, when its 2024 cars were late and severely overweight.

“The car will be weight range and time,” Walls said. “We demonstrated the world that we can build a car for the right standard and leave it a garage within a minute. So these are two very different changes from where we are last year. Fit quality, build build Quality, product quality is a very big step.

“Every field that I see on the car is just a difference for me where we were earlier. We have not ended on our journey, and I am not standing here on my soapbox, saying that we are a benchmark , But we are on the right path to come back there.

Despite all those tangible benefits, Williams would not believe whether he has carried forward his direct rivals until the end of the Bahrain test, and of course even to qualify Melbourne. Albon wants to aim for “the top half of the midfield”, but says whether the Williams is on the right path, its evaluation is still based on the speed of change that he can see behind the curtain compared to the revision.

He said, “I would like to see us making a step from last year, just in the context of telling that it is a little difficult to say.” “I want to fight in the top half of that midfield fight.

“But this is not so-based as you expect. I think last year, if you see where we were in terms of time and were getting late and more weight, then this The types of areas were fundamental to be fixed for this and we have already started in a better position.

Albon is indicating some of the changes that belong to the hiring sprinkle Williams. Microsoft Excel to keep an eye on car parts through the sheet Now there is also a blush-rage residue of the past. This is part of the process when Vuls was hired by the team owner Dorilton Capital in January 2023, whose final phase will not be completed very soon until 2027.

“Everyone combines that we want to win the World Championship,” Walls said. “What I can showcase is very clear progress that is happening in infrastructure, culture, technology, which is kicking, we are going to a new building.

“This year we think that we think will be a benchmark driver-in-loop simulator. We are bringing this year to the equipment and technologies. Next year, you will remember about long-term development.

“Today we are bits that will not come online till 2027. It is unfortunate, but it is part of a long journey. The fact is that we have gone to more than 1,000 people from 700 people, which means that you have There will be some low-cut fruits, just produce a better car-it is being performed more.

The tone rejects any comparison SaveWhere many people focused a heavy focus on 2026, last year hurt the current team’s performance and, with it, reduced its morale.

“I ask you a question. Do you think this happened in a year, or do you think it was many years? It took many years to happen, so it took many years to make it back , “He said.

Walls says that the team, which first placed the 2025 car back in the wind tunnel in March last year, is already a firm and date for the development of his car, although he fully to Williams. The disclosure was stopped to move. 2026 for the project.

“Not currently,” he said. “Mainly because I want to see how we get out of the gate, but the bias is very high towards 2026. 2 January was the first legal date which was in our 2026 car wind tunnel and it has not come out since then And loaded the development as much as possible to put a 2026 car at 2025.

“The only thing that is going to make a difference is clear when we bend a wheel in Australia. But still, I don’t think our path will change where we are.”

Nevertheless, along with a second experienced driver with albon in size-one proven race winner-Villiams have also upgraded their driver line-up, as well as any other change will already have an impact this year. .

With his well -recorded weight issues, Williams took a long time to get off the mark last year and manage the ninth in only standing. Despite its 2026 focus – which will be shared by a lot of its rivals – 2025 must take a step by all matrix if it aims to maintain the speed created by the buzz around its launch.