No “systemic effect” from “24 races in 24 races” in Williams

Tolerated by many crash Williams The team’s boss James Walls has said that the 2024 Formula 1 season was brought about “a small amount of pain”, but there would be no “systemic effects” on the outfit organization.

The Grove-based squad faced accidents in the latest campaign, including all three drivers- Alex albon, Logan Sergeant And American’s late-season replacement Franco Colapinto,

Williams decided to withdraw Sergeant from Australian Grand Prix, later handed over his car to Albon, as later damaged himself in an FP1 off. The shunts became a regular phenomenon in the season, to the extent that the Colapinto had to complete the year with the old-specific parts after the Las Vegas qualified session.

In the current budget cap era, accidents gave the team a cost of millions of euros and forced it to spend more resource on production of 2024 parts. However, as Williams launched its new FW47 Challenger for 2025, Walls claimed that the pain from those incidents was “not yet noticeable”.

Britain admitted, “There will be a small amount of pain, but it is just the facts behind it – you cannot do more than 20 accidents in 24 races, you cannot be without some kind of damage,” accepted. “The best way I can summarize it, I do not think we will make a systemic impact on how we are adjusting it.”

Albon agreed: “Honestly, I would not say that last year (Crash) influenced the development of this year’s car.”

After the ninth place in the previous season, Williams openly consider 2025 as a transitional year anyway, aimed at taking the maximum advantage of the new technical rules of F1 from 2026.

“We are still focusing a lot on” 26, “said Elbon. “We changed the car a lot from ’23 to ’24, and I think you saw the changes – it took a toll.

“Not only in terms of car construction and late for testing last year, but the balance of the car changed significantly.

“A lot of things improved; We felt that we had some weaknesses. This year, now that we understand the changes made between ’23 and ’24, how do we apply it in this year, and what is the direction that we are now going in the right direction for ’26’ finally ‘. Are? ,

As far as short -term goals are concerned, the Williams camp optimism that the new FW47 represents a decent step, but the albon is careful that it is not necessarily translated into a step in Peking order in 2025.

“I have felt from year to year, especially with regulation changes, that each team, especially midfield teams, are very improved,” Thai-Bitan said. “You think you have really made a good step – and you have – but all midfield teams have also done it, if not too much.

“One thing that you can tell from Bahrain test is immediately, I think within 15-20 laps before driving, the car’s spirit is going in the right direction.”

Before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, only three-day officer will be a pre-season testing work in Sakhir, which will give the first verdict on whether Williams has progressed for some expectation.

Additional Reporting by Alex Kalinakus and Mark Man-Brains